Buddy Reroll

Reroll the Claude Code /buddy companion by brute-forcing the internal SALT constant to find a seed that produces the desired buddy for the user's account.

How it works

Buddy generation is deterministic: hash(userId + SALT) seeds a PRNG that decides species, rarity, shiny, etc. Changing SALT changes the outcome. The script tries up to 500k SALT values to find matches.

Available attributes

• species (18): duck, goose, blob, cat, dragon, octopus, owl, penguin, turtle, snail, ghost, axolotl, capybara, cactus, robot, rabbit, mushroom, chonk
• rarity: common (60%), uncommon (25%), rare (10%), epic (4%), legendary (1%)
• shiny: 1% chance per roll
• eye: · ✦ × ◉ @ °
• hat: none, crown, tophat, propeller, halo, wizard, beanie, tinyduck (common rarity always gets none)

Workflow

Step 1: Ask what the user wants

If the user didn't specify, ask which attributes matter to them (species, rarity, shiny, etc.). Not all combinations are findable within 500k iterations — rarer combos (e.g. legendary + shiny + specific species) may have 0-3 results.

Step 2: Search for matching SALTs

Run the bundled script with the user's criteria:

node <skill-dir>/scripts/buddy_reroll.mjs --species dragon --rarity legendary --shiny --max-results 10

Flags: --species X, --rarity X, --shiny, --eye X, --hat X, --max-results N, --show-current

The script auto-detects the user's userId from their Claude config. Output is JSON.

Step 3: Present results

Show a table of matching buddies with salt, rarity, species, eye, hat, shiny, and stats. Let the user pick one.

Step 4: Apply the chosen SALT

Run with --apply <salt> to patch cli.js and clear the old companion:

node <skill-dir>/scripts/buddy_reroll.mjs --species dragon --shiny --apply "friend-2026-1578"

This will:

1. Replace the SALT in the installed cli.js (auto-detected via which claude)
2. Delete the companion field from the user's Claude config

Step 5: Instruct user

Tell the user to restart Claude Code and run /buddy to hatch their new companion.

Warn: upgrading Claude Code (npm update) will reset the SALT — they'll need to reroll again.