Vibebud

Vibebud

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A floating AI buddy for Codex, Claude Code, and other agents.

Vibebud gives your coding agents a visible presence: a floating virtual character that stays with you on desktop, web, and Android. Connect it to multiple Codex or Claude Code agents, drag it around, dock it when you need focus, chat with it, organize agents into teams, assign tasks, and get notifications when something needs attention.

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Demos

Connect VibeBud to Codex and Claude Code

Generate a new animated buddy look with Codex

What You Can Build With It

Vibebud is meant for developers experimenting with AI coding agents, desktop companions, and more playful development workflows.

Personalities and Groups

Each buddy has a name, a role, and its own system prompt. The six built-ins:

- Helper - general assistant
- Tactician - planner and prioritizer
- Researcher - digger for prior art and references
- Skeptic - critical reviewer who probes assumptions
- Cheerleader - upbeat encourager
- Empath - listens first, validates, then suggests

Drag two buddies near each other and they form a small team. A pastel hull appears behind them, and each member is told who its teammates are so it can defer to a better-suited specialist when appropriate.

Quick Start

For the desktop app:

Build commands:

The dev server runs on port 3060, not 3000. The desktop window loads the /buddy route, which has a transparent background so only the avatar shows through.

Repo Layout

Anything that can live in core/ should. The platform shells stay thin.

Stack

- core/ - Next.js 16 App Router, React 19, Tailwind v4, TypeScript 5, lottie-react. Configured for static export so the desktop shell can serve it from disk.
- desktop/ - Electron 33 and electron-builder. Transparent always-on-top…