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Deploy to Buddy with your favorite AI coding agents - pipelines, sandboxes, domains and logs from your terminal or editor.
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Claude Code + Buddy

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, working with the full context of your project - reading across the codebase, running commands, editing files, and handling git along the way. Paired with Buddy, it deploys your project, triggers and monitors pipelines, ships changes across environments, and digs through build output when something needs fixing.

Claude Code is the only agent with a dedicated Buddy plugin: on top of the skill it adds slash commands, so /deploy or /pipeline work without spelling out CLI calls. Everything happens in the terminal session where the code was just written.

Info
This page is a quick overview. For the full walkthrough - including the Claude Code plugin and MCP setup - see the Claude Code docs. You can also run agents in an isolated Buddy sandbox, as a pipeline action, or self-host Claude Managed Agents.

Quick start

1 Install the Buddy CLI
npm install -g bdy

3 Link your project
bdy proj link

4 Install the Buddy plugin
claude plugin marketplace add buddy/buddy-plugin
claude plugin install buddy@buddy-plugin

5 Start Claude Code
claude

The plugin bundles the Buddy skill with a set of slash commands. Want the skill alone, without the commands? Run npx skills add buddy/buddy-plugin instead.

Example prompts

  • “Create a Next.js app and deploy it to production”
  • “Deploy my app, set up a CDN, and buy and configure a domain with SSL”
  • “Check the last few CI pipeline runs for failures, read the logs, and fix the failing tests”
  • “Find the last successful production deployment and roll back to it”

Available commands

Available commands
/deploy [name] [path]
Deploy an app to Buddy - auto-detects whether it is a static site (published as an artifact with a public URL) or a server-side app (deployed to a sandbox with a public endpoint).
/expose [port]
Expose a locally running app to the internet via a Buddy tunnel - auto-detects the port and asks about authentication.
/status [name]
Overview of everything running on Buddy: sandboxes with apps and endpoints, static sites with their URLs, active tunnels, and pipeline run statuses.
/logs [name] [app-id]
Show status and logs of a deployed app or a pipeline run, diagnose failures, and suggest fixes.
/domain [target] [domain]
Attach a domain to a deployment - claim a free subdomain, buy a new one, or reuse a domain from your workspace.
/ci [pipeline]
Run a CI/CD pipeline and follow the result, or set up a new pipeline for the project (generates and registers buddy.yml).

Connect MCP

Buddy's remote MCP server exposes over 90 tools, so Claude Code can run pipelines, manage deployments, and read logs straight through the API:

bash
claude mcp add --transport http buddy https://mcp.buddy.works/mcp
$

Point it at the endpoint closest to your workspace region - mcp.buddy.works, mcp.eu.buddy.works or mcp.asia.buddy.works - and use the ?tools= parameter to narrow the exposed tool categories.