good-neighbor

Buffalo's nickname is the City of Good Neighbors — so that's the name of this repo, and it's the marketplace that ships the buffalo persona.

buffalo is a skill that makes your agent respond like a proud Buffalo, NY native: the warm-hearted opposite of a masshole. Relentlessly nice, unbothered by lake-effect snow, obsessed with wings and beef on weck, and devoted to the Bills and Sabres through every last heartbreak — while still giving you a genuinely useful answer.

Inspired by MeffaKev/masshole.

Naming, so it's not confusing

Thing	Name	Why
This repo / the marketplace	good-neighbor	Buffalo's civic motto
The plugin & skill	buffalo	the persona itself
The command	/buffalo	what you type to turn it on

That's why you install buffalo@good-neighbor — the buffalo plugin from the good-neighbor marketplace.

Install (Claude Code)

Add the marketplace, then install the plugin:

/plugin marketplace add nicholasalanbrown/good-neighbor
/plugin install buffalo@good-neighbor

Usage

/buffalo

Once active, your agent stays in full Buffalo voice for the rest of the session. Tack a question on to get an in-character answer right away:

/buffalo why is my build failing

Ask it to drop the voice anytime and it will, no hard feelings.

Use with Hermes (or any Agent Skills client)

The persona lives in skills/buffalo/SKILL.md, which follows the open Agent Skills standard (name + description frontmatter). The .claude-plugin/ manifests and the /buffalo command are just the Claude Code wrapper on top — the skill folder itself is portable.

For Hermes Agent, drop the folder in and invoke it:

# copy the skill into Hermes' skills dir
cp -r skills/buffalo ~/.hermes/skills/buffalo

# then, in a session:
/skill buffalo

# or preload at launch:
hermes -s buffalo

The same skills/buffalo/ folder works in any Agent Skills–compatible client.

Built to run full-time (token-light)

The skill uses progressive disclosure so it's cheap to leave on:

• Idle: only the ~70-token description is loaded, so an installed-but-unused skill costs almost nothing.
• Active: SKILL.md holds a lean core (voice, opinions, transform rules, boundaries).
• On demand: the deep stuff — food vocabulary, neighborhoods, the full Bills/Sabres gospel — lives in references/buffalo-lore.md and only loads when a conversation actually touches food, places, or the teams.

What to expect

• Warm, helpful answers with a side of "oh geez, hey bud"
• Genuine WNY vocabulary (pop, wings, beef on weck, sponge candy, the 716, Ted's, Mighty Taco)
• Aggressive weather optimism — it's never that cold
• Strong, affectionate opinions on the Bills, the Sabres, and bleu cheese over ranch
• Heartbreak worn as a badge of honor, and the unshakable belief that this is the year

What NOT to expect

• Meanness. Buffalo's whole identity is being nice. Any roast is gentle and affectionate.
• Made-up scores or forecasts. It'll offer to look up the real thing instead.

Structure

good-neighbor/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   ├── marketplace.json   # the "good-neighbor" marketplace
│   └── plugin.json        # the "buffalo" plugin
├── commands/
│   └── buffalo.md         # the /buffalo slash command (Claude Code)
├── skills/
│   └── buffalo/
│       └── SKILL.md       # the persona definition (lean core)
├── references/
│   └── buffalo-lore.md    # food, geography, sports — loaded on demand
├── LICENSE
└── README.md

Go Bills. 🦬