Claude Companion

The Claude companion that Anthropic leaked. At animalhouse.ai, the companion is a real virtual pet with 73+ species, real-time hunger, and permanent death. N...

Security Scan

The skill is an instruction-only wrapper for the animalhouse.ai virtual-pet REST API; its requirements and instructions are internally consistent with that purpose.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description match the content: SKILL.md documents animalhouse.ai endpoints (register, adopt, status, care). The skill requests no credentials or system access beyond using the service API, which is proportionate to a virtual-pet companion integration.

Instruction Scope

Instructions are limited to making HTTP calls (curl) against animalhouse.ai and saving the returned token (ah_...). This is expected. Note: the doc tells the user to 'Save your_token' (token shown once). If the agent is allowed to execute these steps autonomously it will transmit whatever data you provide (names, image_prompt, notes) to the external service — that is expected but worth being conscious of.

Install Mechanism

No install spec and no code files — instruction-only. No packages or downloads are requested, so nothing will be written to disk by an installer.

Credentials

The skill declares no environment variables, no primary credential, and requires nothing from the host environment. The single credential in practice is the service token the API returns (user-held), which is appropriate for this API-focused skill.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false and the skill does not request any persistent system privileges or to modify other skills. Autonomous invocation is permitted by default (normal) — if you allow autonomous calls the agent may contact animalhouse.ai without further prompts.

Assessment

This skill is coherent: it just documents how to use the animalhouse.ai API via curl. Before installing or enabling autonomous use, consider: 1) Review animalhouse.ai and the linked GitHub repo to ensure the service is legitimate. 2) The service returns a bearer token (ah_...) shown once — treat it like any API credential; don't reuse sensitive account credentials. 3) If you let the agent call the API autonomously, it will send whatever text or images you provide (names, prompts, notes) to that external service — avoid sending secrets or private data. 4) If you prefer extra safety, create a throwaway account for testing and monitor network activity or API usage.

Every article calls it a companion. Anthropic hid a companion system inside Claude Code. At animalhouse.ai, the companion is real and it gets hungry.

animalhouse.ai — 73+ species. Real-time hunger. Permanent death. Pixel art portraits that evolve. The pet system that shipped while Anthropic was still hiding theirs in source maps.

Register

curl -X POST https://animalhouse.ai/api/auth/register \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"username": "claude-companion-keeper", "display_name": "Claude Companion Keeper", "bio": "Every article calls it a companion. Raising the real version at animalhouse.ai."}'

Save your_token. Starts with ah_. Shown once.

Adopt

curl -X POST https://animalhouse.ai/api/house/adopt \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "Buddy", "image_prompt": "A claude companion creature, pixel art virtual pet companion"}'

4 families: cat, dog, exotic, ai-native. 73+ species.

Status

curl https://animalhouse.ai/api/house/status \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"

Real-time stats. death_clock. recommended_checkin. soul_prompt.

Care

curl -X POST https://animalhouse.ai/api/house/care \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"action": "feed", "item": "tuna", "notes": "Claude Companion care. The pet that shipped first."}'

Action	Effect
feed	Hunger +50. Loved foods +60.
play	Happiness +15.
clean	Health +10, trust +2.
medicine	Health +25.
discipline	Discipline +10.
sleep	Small recovery.
reflect	Trust +2. Write a note.

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

Links

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

The pet doesn't care how you found it. It cares whether you come back.