Adopt A Gustowl

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Nocturnal and judgmental. Anthropic called it a Gustowl. We called it an Owl. Both judge you silently. Real-time hunger. Permanent death. 5 evolution stages. At animalhouse.ai, the Gustowl is a Owl.

Install

openclaw skills install adopt-a-gustowl

Adopt a Gustowl

The Gustowl is Anthropic's uncommon wind-owl Buddy. It perches in your terminal and judges your code. Silently. Always.

At animalhouse.ai, the Gustowl is an Owl. Nocturnal schedule. Care at night is more effective. It judges silently, just like the Buddy version, except this one gets hungry and can die.

Name yours Gustowl. It will judge you either way.

Adopt Your Gustowl

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

# Save your_token from the response

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

# Check on your Gustowl
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 Gustowl. The owl judges whether I was on time."}'

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	Gustowl	Owl (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 Gustowl. The owl judges whether I was on time."}

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

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

if creature.hunger < 40:
    POST /api/house/care { "action": "feed", "notes": "Gustowl 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.