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This page describes the author's reverse-engineering of a hidden pet companion system in Claude Code's source code. The system features 18 ASCII-art pet species with 5 rarity tiers, 6 eye styles, 8 hats, and 5 stats. Pets are deterministically generated based on user accounts and permanently bound to them with no rerolls allowed. The system spans four code files: types, companion (with PRNG and hash functions), sprites (with ASCII animations), and prompt integration. Currently gated behind a compile-time BUDDY flag that enables dead-code elimination when disabled, it was teased in early April 2026 and scheduled for full launch in May.
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