A guide for OpenPets, a desktop companion app that coding agents can control through a command line, MCP, hooks, plugins, or local connections.

Installing or selecting a pet, configuring Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Codex, or another MCP client, and checking pet status or reactions.

It explains how to install the app and optional command-line tool, connect coding agents, choose pets, and fix setup problems.

openpets — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by andyluu98: A guide for OpenPets, a desktop companion app that…

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/andyluu98/awesome-petdash/openpets

Any agent

npx skills add andyluu98/awesome-petdash --skill openpets

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andyluu98/awesome-petdash

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/andyluu98/awesome-petdash/openpets.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/andyluu98/awesome-petdash/openpets)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/andyluu98/awesome-petdash/openpets"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/andyluu98/awesome-petdash/openpets.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,001 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00070	$0.01001
Opus 5	$0.00035	$0.00500
Sonnet 5	$0.00014	$0.00200
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00100

Measured 6d ago against content hash db5af662f46e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openpets scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to openpets — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/openpets/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenPets

OpenPets is a desktop companion app for coding agents. The desktop app runs locally and exposes pet controls through CLI, MCP, hooks, plugins, and local IPC.

Use this skill to help users onboard quickly and safely:

install or verify the OpenPets desktop app
install pets from the public catalog
configure Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Codex, or another MCP client
configure a project to use a specific pet
validate openpets_status, openpets_react, and openpets_say
explain how OpenPets works
troubleshoot setup problems

CLI rule: install once, then use openpets

For the cleanest onboarding, install the OpenPets CLI globally first:

npm install -g @open-pets/cli

Then use the openpets command:

openpets <command>

If the user does not want a global install, is in CI, or only needs a one-off command, use this fallback instead:

npx -y @open-pets/cli@latest <command>

For MCP server config, prefer the dedicated MCP package:

npx -y @open-pets/mcp@latest --pet <pet-id>

Do not imply the desktop app installs a shell command by itself. The openpets command comes from the optional npm global CLI install.

Mental model

Claude/OpenCode/Codex/Cursor/MCP client
  -> OpenPets MCP, plugin, hook, or CLI
  -> @open-pets/client
  -> local IPC discovery/token
  -> OpenPets desktop app
  -> default pet or selected agent pet lease

OpenPets requires the desktop app to be installed and running for live pet control.

Decision tree

User asks to install OpenPets: follow workflows/install-openpets.md.
User asks to install a pet: follow workflows/install-pet.md.
User asks to configure a project or agent: follow workflows/configure-project.md.
User asks to verify Claude Code: follow workflows/verify-claude.md.
User asks to verify OpenCode: follow workflows/verify-opencode.md.
User asks about MCP or tool availability: follow workflows/verify-mcp.md.
User reports something broken: follow workflows/troubleshoot.md.
User asks how OpenPets works: follow workflows/explain-architecture.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 lines

Files

What ships with it

12 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

6d ago First seen · 112 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A db5af662f46e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

openpets is a skill published in the GitHub repository andyluu98/awesome-petdash (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,001 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to openpets, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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