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Claude Familiar — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community intermediate

Enhance Claude Code's /buddy companion with personality, mood, lore, and interactive commands (fortune, roast, haiku, focus timer).

How to install Claude Familiar

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open yaniv-golan/claude-familiar and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Claude Familiar does

Give your Claude Code companion a personality, mood, backstory, and interactive commands — or build your own companion plugin that stacks with others.

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Claude Code Setup Wizard MD — Easily start and manage your Claude (and Codex 67 ★

README

Claude Familiar

Give your Claude Code companion a personality, mood, backstory, and interactive commands — or build your own companion plugin that stacks with others.

[](https://github.com/yaniv-golan/skill-creator-plus) [](https://github.com/yaniv-golan/mcp-bash-framework) [](https://github.com/yaniv-golan/claude-familiar/actions/workflows/ci.yml) [](https://github.com/yaniv-golan/claude-familiar/blob/main/LICENSE)

What you get

Out of the box, the Claude Code companion reacts with generic messages that can't be customized by plugins. With Claude Familiar installed:

Personality and traits are injected into every session — the companion responds in character
Mood shifts automatically as you work (cheerful after successes, grumpy after failures) and decays over time
Lore accumulates across sessions — add backstory entries that persist
Interactive commands — ask for fortunes, code roasts, haiku, stats, and more
Extensible — other plugins can add their own traits, lore, and mood modifiers by declaring "x-familiarExtensions" in their plugin.json. Everything merges automatically.

With the optional binary patch

The companion's speech bubble normally calls Anthropic's reaction API. The patch redirects it to a local server (`familiar-react`) that reads your familiar's state, calls Claude Haiku in-character, and sends the reaction to the bubble. Without the patch, commands like fortune and roast still work — they just appear in Claude's response text instead of the speech bubble.

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