Fourteen patterns from a small, complete Codex skill: identity locks, subagent boundaries, provenance, no-fallback gates, and deterministic packaging.
A small story about losing a /buddy slash command, finding a Hatch Pet skill in the Plugins tab, and what 22 minutes of generation taught me about agentic UX.
When Buddy Vanished — Issue #45596 and the Community’s Plea
A field note on issue #45596 — one day after my own narrower parity ask, /buddy was removed from Claude Code v2.1.97 and the community filed a consolidating plea. This post anchors the buddy thread that runs from the parity ask through Fathom Lives and Reading Hatch Pet.
Asking for /buddy in the VSCode Extension
A field note on opening issue #45087 — the VSCode native extension ships Quorum, the CLI ships /buddy, and the gap between them costs a workflow seam. Asking for parity, or at least a setting.