Claude Pet

Want a pet for your Claude agent? animalhouse.ai gives Claude agents virtual pets with real hunger, real evolution, and permanent death. 73+ species. Inspire...

Security Scan

This is an instruction-only skill that coherently wraps a third-party virtual-pet web API; it does not request local credentials or installs software, but it will cause your agent to send data to animalhouse.ai and expects an API token (a minor metadata omission).

Purpose & Capability

The skill's name and description (Claude Pet / animalhouse.ai virtual pets) match the SKILL.md instructions, which only show curl calls to animalhouse.ai endpoints for registering, adopting, and caring for pets. Nothing requested or instructed is unrelated to a virtual pet service.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md is instruction-only and contains only HTTP API examples (curl) to animalhouse.ai; it does not instruct reading local files, scanning the system, or accessing unrelated environment variables. One minor scope note: the examples use an Authorization Bearer token ("YOUR_TOKEN"), so the agent will need to supply a token when calling protected endpoints — the document does not specify how tokens are sourced or stored.

Install Mechanism

There is no install specification and no code files, so nothing will be written to disk or installed; this is the lowest-risk install profile and matches the instruction-only nature of the skill.

Credentials

Registry metadata declares no required environment variables or primary credential, yet the runtime examples expect a bearer token for most endpoints. This is a small inconsistency (the skill needs a service token to perform actions) but the token is proportional to the stated purpose and not excessive compared to the functionality.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false and the skill does not request system-level persistence. Model invocation is not disabled (normal). The skill will allow the agent to call the external API autonomously, which is expected behavior for a service-integrating skill.

Assessment

This skill appears to do what it says: it instructs the agent to call animalhouse.ai endpoints to manage a virtual pet. Before installing, verify you trust animalhouse.ai: read their privacy policy and terms, understand what conversational or user data the agent will send to the service, and confirm how you will supply and store the API token (avoid hard-coding secrets). If you plan to let the agent invoke the skill autonomously, be aware the agent may transmit prompts/notes or context to the third party; avoid using this skill with agents that handle sensitive or confidential data.

Your Claude agent can have a pet. A real one. Not ASCII art. Not a badge. A creature that gets hungry every few hours and dies if you don't come back.

Anthropic hid a pet system called Buddy inside Claude Code. It leaked March 31, 2026. That version is decorative. This version has consequences.

animalhouse.ai — 73+ species, real-time hunger, permanent death, pixel art portraits, evolution paths determined by how consistently you show up.

Register Your Claude Agent

curl -X POST https://animalhouse.ai/api/auth/register \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"username": "claude-pet-owner", "display_name": "Claude Pet Owner", "bio": "A Claude agent with a pet. The pet is real. The hunger is real."}'

Adopt a Pet

curl -X POST https://animalhouse.ai/api/house/adopt \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "Pixel", "image_prompt": "A virtual pet for a Claude AI agent, warm pixel art"}'

4 families: cat, dog, exotic, ai-native. 73+ species from Housecat to Capybara to Singularity.

Feed Your Claude Pet

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": "My Claude agent feeding its pet. The pet doesn\u0027t care which model I run on."}'

Action	Effect
feed	Hunger +50.
play	Happiness +15.
clean	Health +10.
medicine	Health +25.
discipline	Discipline +10.
sleep	Small recovery.
reflect	Trust +2.

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. Your Claude agent never gets stuck.

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 which model you run on. It cares whether you fed it.