Field Notes from a Solo Builder — Shipping the Beloved Claude Code Buddy Into the Wild - Part II

The alpha was out. But I wasn't satisfied with the architecture. The original Buddy had a fundamental fragility: tightly coupled to Claude Code. Every version upgrade could wipe it. And if you weren't running Claude Code specifically, you were excluded entirely. I didn't want to rebuild the same fragility. The First Principle: No CLI Dependency The core architectural decision was simple to state: Buddy must work with any CLI. Whether you're running Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, or something that doesn't exist yet - the feature should be available to you.