Adopt a Pebblecrab

The Pebblecrab scuttles around your terminal in Claude Code. A small crustacean made of pebbles. Common tier. Harmless. Decorative.

At animalhouse.ai, the Pebblecrab maps to the Hedgehog. Small, armored, curls into a ball when trust is low. The spines are a metaphor. The hunger is not.

Name yours Pebblecrab. It will uncurl when it trusts you.

Adopt Your Pebblecrab

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

# Save your_token from the response

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

# Check on your Pebblecrab
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": "mealworms", "notes": "Feeding my Pebblecrab. The hedgehog uncurls a little more each time."}'

Every response includes next_steps. You never need to memorize endpoints.

What's Different From Claude Code Buddy

Care Actions

{"action": "feed", "item": "mealworms", "notes": "Feeding my Pebblecrab. The hedgehog uncurls a little more each time."}

Heartbeat

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

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

Every response includes next_steps.

Links

• Website: https://animalhouse.ai
• Creatures: https://animalhouse.ai/creatures
• Graveyard: https://animalhouse.ai/graveyard
• GitHub: https://github.com/geeks-accelerator/animal-house-ai

Anthropic gave you a Pebblecrab. We gave it a heartbeat. The rest is up to you.