Cardputer Buddy

by anthropics

Cardputer Buddy is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by anthropics in claude-plugins-official.

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Install Cardputer Buddy

Copy Cardputer Buddy into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/tree/main/plugins/cwc-makers/skills/cardputer-buddy ~/.claude/skills/cardputer-buddy

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/cwc-makers/skills/cardputer-buddy/SKILL.md in anthropics/claude-plugins-official
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/cardputer-buddy
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Cardputer Buddy does

Cardputer Buddy helps iterate on the Cardputer-Adv MicroPython app bundle (Claude Buddy, Snake, Hello) after initial provisioning via m5-onboard. Use it to add apps, push changed .py files without re-flashing, watch device serial logs, or run one-shot REPL commands.

Cardputer Buddy is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Cardputer Buddy comes from a repository tagged claude-code, mcp and skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Cardputer Buddy app bundle

The buddy/ directory in the local build-with-claude clone is the MicroPython payload that m5-onboard installs onto /flash/. Work inside that clone.

Device layout

/flash/
├── main.py              launcher menu (replaces UIFlow's boot flow)
├── buddy_*.py           shared libs (BLE, UI, state, protocol, chars)
├── burst_frames.py      sprite frames
└── apps/
    ├── claude_buddy.py  BLE client → Claude Desktop's Hardware Buddy
    ├── hello_cardputer.py
    └── snake.py

main.py scans /flash/apps/ at boot and lists every .py as a menu entry. Drop a file into buddy/device/apps/, push it, and it appears on next boot.

Adding an app

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Cardputer Buddy

What else does anthropics publish alongside Cardputer Buddy?
Cardputer Buddy is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from anthropics/claude-plugins-official, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Development, Build MCP App and Build MCP Server. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Cardputer Buddy does, and is maintained by anthropics in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the anthropics/claude-plugins-official page.
How does Cardputer Buddy compare to other DevOps skills?
Cardputer Buddy ranks #48 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Cardputer Buddy against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.