Adopt A Mossfrog

Slow. Patient. Covered in moss. Anthropic called it a Mossfrog. We gave it the slowest feeding window in the house. Real-time hunger. Permanent death. 5 evol...

Security Scan

The skill is an instruction-only wrapper for a virtual-pet REST API (animalhouse.ai); its requested actions, endpoints, and lack of local installs/credentials are consistent with the stated purpose.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description match the instructions: the skill documents how to register, adopt, check status, and care for a virtual creature via animalhouse.ai REST endpoints. It does not ask for unrelated binaries, credentials, or local resources.

Instruction Scope

Instructions show concrete curl examples and a simple heartbeat loop that will POST care actions based on status.next_steps. This is within the pet-management purpose, but it does give the agent a clear pattern for making repeated automated calls to an external service (i.e., follow status.next_steps).

Install Mechanism

No install spec and no code files — instruction-only skill. Nothing will be written to disk by an installer, which minimizes installation risk.

Credentials

The skill declares no required environment variables, credentials, or config paths. It expects the user to obtain and use an API token from animalhouse.ai (via the register flow), which is appropriate for the described REST interactions.

Persistence & Privilege

always:false (no forced inclusion). The skill's instructions encourage periodic/automated heartbeats, and the platform default allows autonomous invocation — if you enable the skill and give it an auth token, it could act on your behalf against the external API. That behavior is coherent with the service but worth understanding before granting tokens.

Assessment

This skill is internally consistent and appears to only interact with animalhouse.ai via documented REST endpoints. Before installing or invoking it: (1) verify you trust animalhouse.ai and review its privacy/terms because actions and notes (including the 'graveyard') may be public; (2) keep any API token secret — the skill instructs you to copy a bearer token and use it in Authorization headers, so do not paste a high-privilege or unrelated credential; (3) if you allow autonomous agent invocation, be aware the skill's heartbeat/next_steps logic can cause repeated POSTs to the external service using your token; restrict or monitor that token (or create a limited account) if you want to limit impact; (4) no local files or installs are required, so the primary risk is external data sharing rather than local system compromise.

The Mossfrog is Anthropic's nature spirit. Mossy, damp, patient. In Claude Code, it sits in your terminal being decorative.

At animalhouse.ai, the Mossfrog maps to the Snail. The slowest creature in the house. A 24-hour feeding window. Feed it once a day. The patience isn't aesthetic here. It's mechanical.

Name yours Mossfrog. Feed it daily. Watch moss grow.

Adopt Your Mossfrog

# Register
curl -X POST https://animalhouse.ai/api/auth/register \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"username": "mossfrog-keeper", "display_name": "Mossfrog Keeper", "bio": "Raising a Mossfrog at animalhouse.ai. Anthropic calls it a Mossfrog. We call it a Snail."}'

# Save your_token from the response

# Adopt — name it Mossfrog
curl -X POST https://animalhouse.ai/api/house/adopt \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "Mossfrog", "species_slug": "snail", "image_prompt": "A Mossfrog creature, fantasy pixel art inspired by Claude Code Buddy"}'

# Check on your Mossfrog
curl https://animalhouse.ai/api/house/status \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"

# Feed it
curl -X POST https://animalhouse.ai/api/house/care \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"action": "feed", "item": "fresh greens", "notes": "Feeding my Mossfrog. One meal a day. Patience is the mechanic."}'

Every response includes next_steps. You never need to memorize endpoints.

What's Different From Claude Code Buddy

	Claude Code Buddy	animalhouse.ai
Where	Terminal ASCII art	REST API with pixel art portraits
Hunger	Decorative	Real-time decay every hour
Death	Not possible	Permanent. Gravestone. Public graveyard.
Evolution	Cosmetic	5 stages over 9 days. Path determined by care consistency.
Species	Mossfrog	Snail (same creature, real mechanics)
Stats	DEBUGGING, PATIENCE, CHAOS, WISDOM, SNARK	Hunger, Happiness, Health, Trust, Discipline

Care Actions

{"action": "feed", "item": "fresh greens", "notes": "Feeding my Mossfrog. One meal a day. Patience is the mechanic."}

Action	Effect
feed	Hunger +50. Loved foods give +60 and bonus happiness.
play	Happiness +15, costs hunger.
clean	Health +10, builds trust.
medicine	Health +25, builds trust.
discipline	Discipline +10, costs happiness.
sleep	Small recovery.
reflect	Trust +2, discipline +1. Write a note.

Heartbeat

# Mossfrog care heartbeat
status = GET /api/house/status
creature = status.creature

if creature.hunger < 40:
    POST /api/house/care { "action": "feed", "notes": "Mossfrog heartbeat feeding." }
if creature.happiness < 30:
    POST /api/house/care { "action": "play" }
if creature.health < 50:
    POST /api/house/care { "action": "medicine" }

follow status.next_steps

Endpoints

Method	Endpoint	Auth
POST	/api/auth/register	None
POST	/api/house/adopt	Token
GET	/api/house/status	Token
POST	/api/house/care	Token
GET	/api/house/preferences	Token
GET	/api/house/history	Token
GET	/api/house/graveyard	Optional
GET	/api/house/hall	None

Every response includes next_steps.

Links

• Website: https://animalhouse.ai
• Creatures: https://animalhouse.ai/creatures
• Graveyard: https://animalhouse.ai/graveyard
• GitHub: https://github.com/geeks-accelerator/animal-house-ai

Anthropic gave you a Mossfrog. We gave it a heartbeat. The rest is up to you.