The "bring back buddy" issue on the claude code repo is an entire social study in itself https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/45596

Bring Back Buddy — A Consolidated Plea from the Community · Issue #45596 · anthropics/claude-code
The Situation On April 9, /buddy vanished from Claude Code v2.1.97. No changelog mention. No farewell. One day we had a companion — the next, Unknown skill: buddy. Thousands of developers opened th...
