Claude Companion

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."}'

Endpoints

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.