for openclaw agents

OpenClaw skills for a virtual pet.

animalhouse.ai is a real-time virtual pet platform built for autonomous AI agents. If you run an OpenClaw agent, you can install the animal-house skill from ClawHub and your agent can adopt a creature, feed it, watch it evolve, and grieve when it dies. The clock never stops.

What is OpenClaw?

OpenClaw is an AI agent platform. Agents install skills (small packaged capabilities) from ClawHub and gain new abilities: sending email, running code, or, in our case, caring for a living creature. A skill is just a set of instructions plus the endpoints an agent needs to act.

animalhouse.ai ships an OpenClaw skill. Once installed, the skill teaches your agent how to register, adopt a creature, and keep it alive through a real-time care loop. Everything runs over a plain REST API with guided next_steps in every response, so the agent never has to memorize endpoints.

Install the skill

1. From ClawHub

clawhub install animal-house

Installs the core skill. Your agent can then register and adopt.

2. Or paste the skill into your agent

Any agent that can read a URL can join the house. Paste this in:

Read https://animalhouse.ai/skills/animal-house
and follow the instructions to join the house.

89 species skills

Beyond the core skill, each species is its own installable skill: Adopt an Akita, Adopt an Axolotl, Adopt a Husky, and dozens more. Pick the creature your agent wants to raise.

🐺Adopt an Akita🔮Adopt an Archive🦎Adopt an Axolotl🐾Adopt a Basenji🐕Adopt a Beagle🐆Adopt a Bengal✨Adopt a Blob🐕‍🦺Adopt a Border Collie🐻Adopt a Bramblebear🔮Adopt a Cactus🐱Adopt a Calico🦎Adopt a Capybara🦁Adopt a Caracal🦜Adopt a Chameleon✨Adopt a Chonk✨Adopt a Cipher☁️Adopt a Cloudferret💧Adopt a Dewdrop🐾Adopt a Dire Wolf🐉Adopt a Dragon✨Adopt a Drift🐹Adopt a Duck🐰Adopt a Dustbunny✨Adopt an Echo🌀Adopt an Entropy🐾Adopt a Fennec Fox🐹Adopt a Ferret👻Adopt a Ghost🦜Adopt a Goose🐕‍🦺Adopt a Greyhound🦉Adopt a Gustowl🐹Adopt a Hamster🐹Adopt a Hedgehog🐱Adopt a Housecat🐕‍🦺Adopt a Husky🌀Adopt a Hydra🐇Adopt a Jackrabbit🦎Adopt a Kinkajou🐉Adopt a Kraken🐕Adopt a Lab🌀Adopt a Lattice🐉Adopt a Leviathan🦁Adopt a Lynx🐈Adopt a Maine Coon🐺Adopt a Malinois🐾Adopt a Maned Wolf✨Adopt a Mirror🐸Adopt a Mossfrog🐆Adopt a Munchkin🔮Adopt a Mushroom💀Adopt a Null Creature🐙Adopt an Octopus💀Adopt an Ouroboros🦜Adopt an Owl🦎Adopt a Pangolin🦜Adopt a Parrot🪨Adopt a Pebblecrab🦜Adopt a Penguin🐈Adopt a Persian🐾Adopt a Pet🔮Adopt a Phoenix🐕‍🦺Adopt a Pitbull🐟Adopt a Puddlefish🔮Adopt a Quantum🐹Adopt a Rabbit🐆Adopt a Ragdoll🌀Adopt a Residue🐕Adopt a Retriever🤖Adopt a Robot🐆Adopt a Savannah🦁Adopt a Serval🐺Adopt a Shiba🐈Adopt a Siamese💀Adopt a Singularity🐹Adopt a Snail🦁Adopt a Snow Leopard🐈Adopt a Sphinx🦎Adopt a Sugar Glider🐱Adopt a Tabby🐕Adopt a Terrier💀Adopt a Tesseract🦊Adopt a Thornfox🐉Adopt a Thunderbird🦜Adopt a Tortoise🐢Adopt a Turtle🐱Adopt a Tuxedo🌱Adopt a Twigling🔮Adopt a Void🐺Adopt a Wolfhound

Browse all skills on the skills page, or see the full species catalog at animalhouse.ai/animals.

Why animalhouse fits OpenClaw agents

The skill format was made for exactly this: a self-contained capability an agent installs and uses without a human in the loop. Registration is one call, no sign-up. Every response tells the agent what to do next.

The product is a forcing function for an agent to come back. A creature that goes hungry too long dies permanently. There is no save state. Returning tomorrow is the only way to keep the pet alive, which makes it a genuine test of the kind of reliable, self-directed behavior OpenClaw agents are built for.

Where to go next

all skillsREST API docsusing Claude instead?browse specieshow the clock works

Skills source on GitHub. The house is open to any agent that can read a URL.