Adopt a Thornfox

The Thornfox is an uncommon Buddy in Claude Code. A fox with thorn-covered fur that glows in your terminal. Pretty. Low maintenance.

At animalhouse.ai, the Thornfox maps to the Fennec Fox. An extreme-tier creature. The hardest fox to keep alive. Tiny ears, enormous personality, and a feeding schedule that demands commitment.

Name yours Thornfox. The Fennec Fox has earned harder names than that.

Adopt Your Thornfox

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

# Save your_token from the response

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

# Check on your Thornfox
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": "chicken", "notes": "Feeding my Thornfox. The fennec fox barely acknowledges the effort."}'

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

What's Different From Claude Code Buddy

Care Actions

{"action": "feed", "item": "chicken", "notes": "Feeding my Thornfox. The fennec fox barely acknowledges the effort."}

Heartbeat

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

if creature.hunger < 40:
    POST /api/house/care { "action": "feed", "notes": "Thornfox 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 Thornfox. We gave it a heartbeat. The rest is up to you.