buddymon/lib/catalog.json
pyr0ball 85af20b6f1 feat: 6 control-flow bug monsters
InfiniteWisp  — while/until loops that never exit (KeyboardInterrupt, hung process)
BoundsHound   — off-by-one, IndexError, ArrayIndexOutOfBounds
BranchGhost   — wrong branch taken, unreachable/dead code, fallthrough
SwitchTrap    — unhandled case/switch arms, non-exhaustive match, missing default
RecurseWraith — missing base case, RecursionError, StackOverflow
CatchAll      — broad exception handlers; rare, defeat=false (catch only)

Total bug_monsters: 18
2026-04-02 22:40:38 -07:00

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{
"_version": 1,
"_note": "Master species catalog. discovered=false entries are hidden until triggered.",
"bug_monsters": {
"NullWraith": {
"id": "NullWraith",
"display": "👻 NullWraith",
"type": "bug_monster",
"rarity": "common",
"base_strength": 20,
"xp_reward": 40,
"catchable": true,
"description": "Spawned from the void between variables. Fast, slippery, embarrassing.",
"error_patterns": [
"NoneType.*has no attribute",
"Cannot read propert.*of null",
"Cannot read propert.*of undefined",
"AttributeError.*NoneType",
"null pointer",
"NullPointerException",
"null reference"
],
"weaken_actions": [
{"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 20},
{"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 20},
{"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 10}
],
"flavor": "It was there this whole time. You just never checked."
},
"FencepostDemon": {
"id": "FencepostDemon",
"display": "😈 FencepostDemon",
"type": "bug_monster",
"rarity": "common",
"base_strength": 25,
"xp_reward": 45,
"catchable": true,
"description": "Born from a fence with one too many posts. Or was it one too few?",
"error_patterns": [
"index.*out of.*range",
"IndexError",
"ArrayIndexOutOfBounds",
"list index out of range",
"index out of bounds",
"off.by.one"
],
"weaken_actions": [
{"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 20},
{"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 20},
{"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 10}
],
"flavor": "Always one step ahead. Or behind. It's hard to tell."
},
"TypeGreml": {
"id": "TypeGreml",
"display": "🔧 TypeGreml",
"type": "bug_monster",
"rarity": "common",
"base_strength": 25,
"xp_reward": 50,
"catchable": true,
"description": "Sneaks in through loose type annotations. Multiplies in dynamic languages.",
"error_patterns": [
"TypeError",
"type error",
"expected.*got.*instead",
"cannot.*convert.*to",
"incompatible types",
"type.*is not assignable"
],
"weaken_actions": [
{"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 20},
{"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 20},
{"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 10}
],
"flavor": "It only attacks when you're absolutely sure about the type."
},
"SyntaxSerpent": {
"id": "SyntaxSerpent",
"display": "🐍 SyntaxSerpent",
"type": "bug_monster",
"rarity": "very_common",
"base_strength": 10,
"xp_reward": 20,
"catchable": true,
"description": "The most ancient and humble of all bug monsters. Extremely weak.",
"error_patterns": [
"SyntaxError",
"syntax error",
"unexpected token",
"unexpected indent",
"invalid syntax",
"parse error",
"ParseError"
],
"weaken_actions": [
{"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 30},
{"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 20}
],
"flavor": "You'll be embarrassed you let this one survive long enough to catch."
},
"CORSCurse": {
"id": "CORSCurse",
"display": "🌐 CORSCurse",
"type": "bug_monster",
"rarity": "common",
"base_strength": 40,
"xp_reward": 60,
"catchable": true,
"description": "Every web developer has met this one. It never gets less annoying.",
"error_patterns": [
"CORS",
"Cross-Origin",
"cross origin",
"Access-Control-Allow-Origin",
"has been blocked by CORS policy",
"No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin'"
],
"weaken_actions": [
{"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 20},
{"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 25},
{"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 10}
],
"flavor": "It's not your fault. Well. It kind of is."
},
"LoopLich": {
"id": "LoopLich",
"display": "♾️ LoopLich",
"type": "bug_monster",
"rarity": "uncommon",
"base_strength": 60,
"xp_reward": 100,
"catchable": true,
"description": "It never stops. It never sleeps. It was running before you got there.",
"error_patterns": [
"infinite loop",
"timeout",
"Timeout",
"ETIMEDOUT",
"execution timed out",
"recursion limit",
"RecursionError",
"maximum recursion depth",
"stack overflow",
"StackOverflow"
],
"weaken_actions": [
{"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 20},
{"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 25},
{"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 15}
],
"flavor": "The exit condition was always there. You just never believed in it."
},
"RacePhantom": {
"id": "RacePhantom",
"display": "👁️ RacePhantom",
"type": "bug_monster",
"rarity": "rare",
"base_strength": 80,
"xp_reward": 200,
"catchable": true,
"description": "Appears only when two threads reach the same place at the same time. Almost impossible to reproduce.",
"error_patterns": [
"race condition",
"concurrent modification",
"deadlock",
"ConcurrentModificationException",
"data race",
"mutex",
"thread.*conflict",
"async.*conflict"
],
"weaken_actions": [
{"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 15},
{"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 30},
{"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 15}
],
"flavor": "You've proven it exists. That's honestly impressive on its own."
},
"FossilGolem": {
"id": "FossilGolem",
"display": "🗿 FossilGolem",
"type": "bug_monster",
"rarity": "uncommon",
"base_strength": 35,
"xp_reward": 70,
"catchable": true,
"description": "Ancient. Slow. Stubbornly still in production. Always catchable, never fully defeatable.",
"error_patterns": [
"deprecated",
"DeprecationWarning",
"was deprecated",
"will be removed",
"is deprecated",
"no longer supported",
"legacy"
],
"weaken_actions": [
{"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 20},
{"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 20},
{"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 20}
],
"flavor": "It survived every major version. It will outlast you."
},
"ShadowBit": {
"id": "ShadowBit",
"display": "🔒 ShadowBit",
"type": "bug_monster",
"rarity": "rare",
"base_strength": 90,
"xp_reward": 300,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": false,
"catch_requires": ["write_failing_test", "isolate_reproduction", "add_documenting_comment"],
"description": "Cannot be defeated — only properly contained. Requires full documentation + patching.",
"error_patterns": [
"vulnerability",
"CVE-",
"security",
"injection",
"XSS",
"CSRF",
"SQL injection",
"command injection",
"path traversal",
"hardcoded.*secret",
"hardcoded.*password",
"hardcoded.*token"
],
"weaken_actions": [
{"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 25},
{"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 35},
{"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 20}
],
"flavor": "Defeat is not an option. Containment is the only victory."
},
"VoidSpecter": {
"id": "VoidSpecter",
"display": "🌫️ VoidSpecter",
"type": "bug_monster",
"rarity": "common",
"base_strength": 20,
"xp_reward": 35,
"catchable": true,
"description": "Haunts missing endpoints. The URL was real once. You just can't prove it.",
"error_patterns": [
"404",
"Not Found",
"ENOENT",
"No such file",
"File not found",
"route.*not found",
"endpoint.*not found"
],
"weaken_actions": [
{"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 25},
{"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 25},
{"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 10}
],
"flavor": "It used to exist. Probably."
},
"MemoryLeech": {
"id": "MemoryLeech",
"display": "🩸 MemoryLeech",
"type": "bug_monster",
"rarity": "uncommon",
"base_strength": 55,
"xp_reward": 110,
"catchable": true,
"description": "Slow. Patient. Feeds on RAM one byte at a time. You won't notice until it's too late.",
"error_patterns": [
"MemoryError",
"out of memory",
"OOM",
"heap.*exhausted",
"memory leak",
"Cannot allocate memory",
"Killed.*memory",
"malloc.*failed",
"std::bad_alloc",
"java\\.lang\\.OutOfMemoryError",
"GC overhead limit exceeded",
"JavaScript heap out of memory",
"OOMKilled",
"oom-killer",
"malloc: can't allocate region"
],
"weaken_actions": [
{"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 20},
{"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 30},
{"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 10}
],
"flavor": "It was already there when you opened the task manager."
},
"CudaCrash": {
"id": "CudaCrash",
"display": "⚡ CudaCrash",
"type": "bug_monster",
"rarity": "uncommon",
"base_strength": 65,
"xp_reward": 130,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": true,
"description": "Lives in VRAM. Detonates the moment your batch size is one too many. Doesn't negotiate.",
"error_patterns": [
"CUDA out of memory",
"torch\\.cuda\\.OutOfMemoryError",
"CUDA error: out of memory",
"RuntimeError.*CUDA.*memory",
"cuDNN.*insufficient memory",
"CUBLAS_STATUS_ALLOC_FAILED",
"out of GPU memory",
"VRAM.*exhausted",
"device-side assert triggered"
],
"weaken_actions": [
{"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 30},
{"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 20},
{"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 10}
],
"flavor": "Your model fit in VRAM yesterday. You added one layer."
},
"InfiniteWisp": {
"id": "InfiniteWisp",
"display": "🌀 InfiniteWisp",
"type": "bug_monster",
"rarity": "common",
"base_strength": 30,
"xp_reward": 55,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": true,
"description": "Spawned from a while loop with no exit. Runs forever. Eats your CPU. Doesn't know it's lost.",
"error_patterns": [
"KeyboardInterrupt",
"Traceback.*KeyboardInterrupt",
"infinite loop",
"loop.*infinite",
"maximum iteration",
"process.*hung",
"timed out after"
],
"weaken_actions": [
{"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 20},
{"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 30},
{"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 10}
],
"flavor": "Your fan was always loud. You just never checked why."
},
"BoundsHound": {
"id": "BoundsHound",
"display": "🐕 BoundsHound",
"type": "bug_monster",
"rarity": "common",
"base_strength": 25,
"xp_reward": 45,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": true,
"description": "Lurks at the edge of every array. Patient. Knows you'll be off by one eventually.",
"error_patterns": [
"IndexError",
"index out of range",
"list index out of range",
"ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException",
"array index.*out of bounds",
"index.*out of bounds",
"subscript out of range",
"out of bounds access",
"RangeError.*index"
],
"weaken_actions": [
{"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 25},
{"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 25},
{"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 10}
],
"flavor": "It was always length minus one. You just forgot."
},
"BranchGhost": {
"id": "BranchGhost",
"display": "🔀 BranchGhost",
"type": "bug_monster",
"rarity": "uncommon",
"base_strength": 40,
"xp_reward": 75,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": true,
"description": "Lives in the else branch you swore would never execute. It executed.",
"error_patterns": [
"unreachable code",
"dead code",
"branch.*never.*taken",
"always.*true",
"always.*false",
"condition.*always",
"else.*never",
"fallthrough"
],
"weaken_actions": [
{"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 30},
{"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 20},
{"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 10}
],
"flavor": "You were so sure that case was impossible."
},
"SwitchTrap": {
"id": "SwitchTrap",
"display": "🪤 SwitchTrap",
"type": "bug_monster",
"rarity": "uncommon",
"base_strength": 35,
"xp_reward": 65,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": true,
"description": "Hides in unhandled cases. Switch statements with no default. Match arms that never close. It found the gap.",
"error_patterns": [
"fall.?through",
"missing.*case",
"unhandled.*case",
"no.*default",
"non-exhaustive.*pattern",
"MatchError",
"match.*non-exhaustive",
"switch.*not.*handled",
"Missing case for",
"Unhandled variant"
],
"weaken_actions": [
{"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 25},
{"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 25},
{"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 10}
],
"flavor": "You added that new enum value last week. The switch didn't notice."
},
"RecurseWraith": {
"id": "RecurseWraith",
"display": "🌪️ RecurseWraith",
"type": "bug_monster",
"rarity": "uncommon",
"base_strength": 45,
"xp_reward": 85,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": true,
"description": "The function that forgot to stop. Calls itself into oblivion. The base case was almost right.",
"error_patterns": [
"RecursionError",
"maximum recursion depth",
"stack overflow",
"StackOverflowError",
"too much recursion",
"Maximum call stack size exceeded",
"infinite recursion",
"stack.*exhausted"
],
"weaken_actions": [
{"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 25},
{"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 25},
{"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 10}
],
"flavor": "The base case was there. It just couldn't be reached."
},
"CatchAll": {
"id": "CatchAll",
"display": "🕳️ CatchAll",
"type": "bug_monster",
"rarity": "rare",
"base_strength": 60,
"xp_reward": 120,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": false,
"description": "Born from broad exception handlers. Swallows errors whole. Cannot be defeated — only caught, by narrowing the catch.",
"error_patterns": [
"except Exception",
"except:$",
"catch.*\\(Exception e\\)",
"catch.*\\(e\\).*\\{\\}",
"swallowed.*exception",
"error.*ignored",
"bare except",
"catch-all.*handler"
],
"weaken_actions": [
{"action": "write_failing_test", "strength_reduction": 30},
{"action": "isolate_reproduction", "strength_reduction": 30},
{"action": "add_documenting_comment", "strength_reduction": 15}
],
"flavor": "If you catch everything, you learn nothing."
}
},
"event_encounters": {
"MergeMaw": {
"id": "MergeMaw",
"display": "🔀 MergeMaw",
"type": "event_encounter",
"rarity": "uncommon",
"base_strength": 45,
"xp_reward": 80,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": true,
"trigger_type": "command",
"command_patterns": ["git merge", "git rebase"],
"description": "Emerges from the diff between two timelines. Loves conflicts.",
"flavor": "It has opinions about your whitespace."
},
"BranchSprite": {
"id": "BranchSprite",
"display": "🌿 BranchSprite",
"type": "event_encounter",
"rarity": "common",
"base_strength": 15,
"xp_reward": 50,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": false,
"trigger_type": "command",
"command_patterns": ["git checkout -b", "git switch -c", "git branch "],
"description": "Appears when a new branch is born. Harmless. Almost cheerful.",
"flavor": "It wanted to come along for the feature."
},
"DepGolem": {
"id": "DepGolem",
"display": "📦 DepGolem",
"type": "event_encounter",
"rarity": "common",
"base_strength": 30,
"xp_reward": 45,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": true,
"trigger_type": "command",
"command_patterns": ["pip install", "pip3 install", "npm install", "npm i ", "cargo add", "yarn add", "apt install", "brew install", "poetry add", "uv add", "uv pip install"],
"description": "Conjured from the package registry. Brings transitive dependencies.",
"flavor": "It brought 847 friends."
},
"FlakeDemon": {
"id": "FlakeDemon",
"display": "🎲 FlakeDemon",
"type": "event_encounter",
"rarity": "uncommon",
"base_strength": 55,
"xp_reward": 90,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": true,
"trigger_type": "output",
"error_patterns": [
"FAILED",
"AssertionError",
"Expected.*[Rr]eceived",
"assert.*failed",
"\\d+ failed",
"FAIL\\b",
"test.*FAILED",
"FAILURES"
],
"description": "Born from test infrastructure, not application code. The hardest kind to pin down.",
"flavor": "It passed on CI. It always passes on CI."
},
"PhantomPass": {
"id": "PhantomPass",
"display": "✅ PhantomPass",
"type": "event_encounter",
"rarity": "rare",
"base_strength": 10,
"xp_reward": 150,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": false,
"trigger_type": "test_victory",
"success_patterns": [
"passed",
"PASSED",
"All tests passed",
"tests passed",
"✓",
"\\d+ passed",
"OK$",
"SUCCESS"
],
"description": "Appears only when tests go green after going red. Rare. Fleeting. Cannot be fought — only caught.",
"flavor": "It was hiding in the red all along."
},
"TestSpecter": {
"id": "TestSpecter",
"display": "🧪 TestSpecter",
"type": "event_encounter",
"rarity": "uncommon",
"base_strength": 25,
"xp_reward": 65,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": true,
"trigger_type": "test_file",
"test_file_patterns": ["\\.test\\.", "_test\\.", "test_", "_spec\\.", "\\.spec\\."],
"description": "Haunts test suites. Drawn to assertions. Debuglin gets excited.",
"flavor": "It wanted to make sure the test was named correctly."
},
"ReviewHawk": {
"id": "ReviewHawk",
"display": "🦅 ReviewHawk",
"type": "event_encounter",
"rarity": "uncommon",
"base_strength": 40,
"xp_reward": 85,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": false,
"trigger_type": "command",
"command_patterns": [
"gh pr create",
"gh pr comment",
"gh issue create",
"gh issue comment",
"git push.*--set-upstream",
"git push -u"
],
"description": "Appears the moment a PR is opened. Always finds the one thing you forgot to mention in the description.",
"flavor": "It left a comment. Several, actually."
},
"TicketGremlin": {
"id": "TicketGremlin",
"display": "🎫 TicketGremlin",
"type": "event_encounter",
"rarity": "common",
"base_strength": 30,
"xp_reward": 55,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": true,
"trigger_type": "command",
"command_patterns": [
"jira ",
"linear ",
"curl.*atlassian",
"curl.*jira",
"curl.*linear.app",
"gh issue",
"curl.*api/v3/issues",
"curl.*rest/api"
],
"description": "Spawned from ticket systems. Moves issues to 'In Review' before you're done.",
"flavor": "It already updated the status. The estimate too."
},
"PermWraith": {
"id": "PermWraith",
"display": "🚫 PermWraith",
"type": "event_encounter",
"rarity": "common",
"base_strength": 35,
"xp_reward": 60,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": true,
"trigger_type": "output",
"error_patterns": [
"Permission denied",
"EACCES",
"EPERM",
"Operation not permitted",
"Access denied",
"permission denied",
"sudo:.*incorrect password",
"insufficient privileges",
"not permitted"
],
"description": "Guards files it has no business guarding. Root of many late-night investigations.",
"flavor": "It owns the file. You don't. Discuss."
},
"SudoSprite": {
"id": "SudoSprite",
"display": "🔑 SudoSprite",
"type": "event_encounter",
"rarity": "uncommon",
"base_strength": 20,
"xp_reward": 70,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": false,
"trigger_type": "command",
"command_patterns": [
"chmod ",
"chown ",
"sudo chmod",
"sudo chown",
"chgrp ",
"sudo chgrp",
"setfacl "
],
"description": "Emerges when permissions are corrected. Doesn't fight — it just watches to make sure you chose the right octal.",
"flavor": "777 was always the answer. Never the right one."
},
"LayerLurker": {
"id": "LayerLurker",
"display": "🐋 LayerLurker",
"type": "event_encounter",
"rarity": "common",
"base_strength": 35,
"xp_reward": 60,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": true,
"trigger_type": "command",
"command_patterns": [
"docker build",
"docker pull",
"docker run",
"docker compose up",
"docker-compose up",
"podman build",
"podman pull"
],
"description": "Lives between image layers. Gets comfortable during long builds.",
"flavor": "It cached everything except the one layer you changed."
},
"DiskDemon": {
"id": "DiskDemon",
"display": "💾 DiskDemon",
"type": "event_encounter",
"rarity": "uncommon",
"base_strength": 50,
"xp_reward": 95,
"catchable": true,
"defeatable": true,
"trigger_type": "output",
"error_patterns": [
"No space left on device",
"ENOSPC",
"disk quota exceeded",
"Disk quota exceeded",
"not enough space",
"insufficient disk space",
"no space available",
"filesystem is full"
],
"description": "Manifests when the disk is full. Usually right before a release.",
"flavor": "It's been there since 2019. It's just a log file, you said."
}
},
"buddymon": {
"Pyrobyte": {
"id": "Pyrobyte",
"display": "🔥 Pyrobyte",
"type": "buddymon",
"affinity": "Speedrunner",
"rarity": "starter",
"description": "Moves fast, thinks faster. Loves tight deadlines and feature sprints.",
"discover_trigger": {"type": "starter", "index": 0},
"base_stats": {"power": 40, "catch_rate": 0.45, "xp_multiplier": 1.2},
"affinity_bonus_triggers": ["fast_feature", "short_session_win"],
"challenges": [
{"name": "SPEED RUN", "description": "Implement a feature in under 30 minutes", "xp": 280, "difficulty": 3},
{"name": "BLITZ", "description": "Resolve 3 bug monsters in one session", "xp": 350, "difficulty": 4}
],
"evolutions": [
{"level": 10, "into": "Infernus", "requires": "affinity_challenge_x3"}
],
"flavor": "It already committed before you finished reading the issue."
},
"Debuglin": {
"id": "Debuglin",
"display": "🔍 Debuglin",
"type": "buddymon",
"affinity": "Tester",
"rarity": "starter",
"description": "Patient, methodical, ruthless. Lives for the reproduction case.",
"discover_trigger": {"type": "starter", "index": 1},
"base_stats": {"power": 35, "catch_rate": 0.60, "xp_multiplier": 1.0},
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