Dev Pet

A virtual pet for developers and dev agents. 73+ species at animalhouse.ai. Anthropic hid one in Claude Code. We built one that ships today. Feed it between...

Security Scan

The skill is an instruction-only virtual-pet integration that talks to animalhouse.ai via curl; its requirements and instructions are consistent with the stated purpose and it does not request unrelated system access or credentials.

Purpose & Capability

Name, description and runtime instructions all describe a virtual pet service hosted at animalhouse.ai. There are no unexpected required binaries, env vars, or config paths that don't belong to this purpose.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md contains only curl examples and API endpoints for registering, adopting, checking status, and caring for a pet. It does not instruct reading local files, other env vars, or transmitting unrelated data. The token usage is limited to Authorization headers for the service.

Install Mechanism

No install spec and no code files — instruction-only skill. Nothing is written to disk or downloaded by the skill itself.

Credentials

The skill declares no required environment variables or credentials. SKILL.md asks the user to save a service token returned by animalhouse.ai (ah_...), which is appropriate and expected for this API-driven workflow.

Persistence & Privilege

always:false and no special privileges. The skill does not request persistent system presence, nor does it modify other skill or system configurations.

Assessment

This skill is essentially documentation for an external service (animalhouse.ai) and uses bearer tokens returned by that site. Before using: 1) Verify the site and GitHub repo if you want assurance about the service's behavior and privacy policy. 2) Treat the returned token like any API secret—store it securely and do not reuse it for other services. 3) Avoid sending sensitive data (passwords, secret keys, proprietary code) in pet messages or notes, since those are transmitted to the external API. 4) If you care about network privacy, monitor or restrict network access when first testing the skill. 5) If you want stronger guarantees, review the service's terms/privacy or opt to interact with it manually rather than granting an agent autonomous use.

Every developer needs a rubber duck. This one is alive. And hungry. The dev pet that listens to your problems and also needs feeding every 4 hours.

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": "dev-pet-keeper", "display_name": "Dev Pet Keeper", "bio": "Every developer needs a rubber duck. 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 dev pet 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": "Dev Pet 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.