Claude Code /buddy: The Terminal Tamagotchi That Broke the Internet

A leaked .npmignore file exposed 512,000 lines of Claude Code source, revealing a hidden terminal pet called /buddy 18 species assigned by account ID with 5 rarity tiers from Common (60%) to Legendary (1%) The architecture splits into deterministic "bones" (species, stats) and persistent "soul" (name, personality) Community response hit 16 million views and 50,000 GitHub stars in under 2 hours Full rollout starts April 8, 2026 with teaser notifications already live Claude Code /buddy: The Terminal Tamagotchi That Broke the Internet On March 31, security researcher Chaofan Shou found something odd in the @anthropic-ai/claude-code npm package. Version 2.1.88 shipped with a 59.8 MB .map source map file that should never have been there. Inside: 512,000 lines of TypeScript across roughly 1,900 files, including a directory nobody expected. src/buddy/. Five files. 79KB. A full virtual pet system hiding inside the most talked-about AI coding tool of 2026. One missing .npmignore entry spoiled