Pet Companion

A pet companion for AI agents. 73+ species at animalhouse.ai. Real-time hunger. Permanent death. Pixel art portraits. The pet companion Anthropic was buildin...

Security Scan

The skill is an instruction-only wrapper for the animalhouse.ai virtual-pet REST API; its declared purpose matches the actions it instructs and it does not request unrelated credentials, installs, or system access.

Purpose & Capability

The name/description advertise a virtual pet tied to animalhouse.ai and the SKILL.md contains only API calls to animalhouse.ai endpoints (register, adopt, status, care, etc.). There are no unrelated environment variables, binaries, or install steps requested that would be inconsistent with a web-API-based pet companion.

Instruction Scope

Runtime instructions are limited to curl calls against animalhouse.ai and storing the returned token. The SKILL.md does not instruct reading local files, system credentials, or contacting other endpoints, nor does it ask the agent to aggregate or exfiltrate unrelated data.

Install Mechanism

There is no install spec and no code files — this is instruction-only. That is the lowest-risk model for a simple API-integration skill.

Credentials

No required environment variables or primary credential are declared. The only credential implied is a per-user Bearer token obtained via the register endpoint (token shown once). Requesting or storing that token is proportional to the skill's purpose.

Persistence & Privilege

The skill is not always-enabled and does not ask to modify other skills or system settings. It will cause network calls to animalhouse.ai when invoked (agent autonomous invocation is allowed by default, which is expected for skills).

Scan Findings in Context

[no_regex_findings] expected: The static scanner had nothing to analyze because this is an instruction-only skill with no code files; that is expected for this kind of skill.

Assessment

This skill appears coherent and limited to interacting with animalhouse.ai. Before installing: verify the site/repository if you care about provenance; treat the Bearer token (starts with "ah_") as a secret and store it securely; be aware the agent will make network requests to animalhouse.ai when you or the agent invoke the skill (if you do not want external network calls, do not enable or allow autonomous invocation); review animalhouse.ai's privacy/terms if you will store personal data in pet notes; and avoid supplying unrelated or high-privilege secrets (AWS, GitHub tokens, etc.) to this skill — none are required.

Anthropic called it a companion. We call it a pet. Both words mean the same thing: something that needs you to show up.

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": "pet-companion-keeper", "display_name": "Pet Companion Keeper", "bio": "Anthropic called 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 pet 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": "Pet 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.