PlayPets
Pet friends that live on your desktop: four come with the app, any Codex pet can join them, and up to 12 talk to each other and cheer on your coding agent.
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Site in: English · Korean · Japanese · Simplified Chinese
Why PlayPets
- 🐾 Reads Codex pet files (the custom pets made for ChatGPT and Codex) as they are: every action, and the sixteen look directions when the sheet has them. Codex is not needed.
- 👥 Up to 12 friends at once, in the yard and out on your desktop, one by one, with gifts, flowers and trees from the yard to decorate it. Keep your pet in the ChatGPT desktop app too: both read the same pet files.
- 💬 They chat with you, and with each other, through the AI you pick.
- 🧑💻 They react to Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Grok Build, Qoder, Kimi Code and other MCP tools.
- 🏡 A yard of their own: Hill garden, Wild garden, Lakeside cottage, Garden workshop or your own backgrounds, gifts like a swing or a pond, four games (one only in winter), a garden, fishing and a 169-entry album.
- 🌱 The four starter pets also dig, plant, fish and change clothes with the seasons.
- 🔓 Free and open source (MIT) for macOS, Windows and Linux.
| Friends talk among themselves | Out on your desktop while you code | A friend for each coding agent |
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Features
| Area | What you get |
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| Companions | Daisy, Clover (main mascot), Pip and Miso, with summer and winter outfits; or community pet files |
| Relationships | Friend, Partner, Dependable mentor, Playful younger sibling |
| Conversations | Chat with one friend, bring others in, or let them talk among themselves |
| AI connections | Signed-in Claude Code or Codex CLI, local Ollama, an OpenAI or Grok (xAI) API key, or an OpenAI-compatible server; one AI per friend |
| Places | Hill garden, Wild garden, Lakeside cottage, Garden workshop and imported backgrounds; season, time and weather controls |
| Play | Hide and seek, parade, tag and, in winter, a snowman |
| Garden and album | Dig for seeds, saplings and keepsakes; plant; fish and catch bugs; fill a 169-entry album |
| Desktop mode | Send friends, gifts, flowers and trees out one by one from their right-click menu; friends stroll and visit them (on macOS, over full-screen apps too) |
| Coding company | Hooks and MCP for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Grok Build, Qoder, Kimi Code and other MCP tools |
| Languages | English, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese |
More in the user guide: chat and AI billing, the yard and its games, the desktop, importing community pets and the character and background studios.
Install
| System | Get it |
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| macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) | PlayPets_<version>_macos-universal.dmg from releases, or Homebrew (below) |
| Windows x64 / ARM | Microsoft Store or winget (below), or PlayPets_<version>_windows-x64-setup.exe / …_windows-arm64-setup.exe from releases |
| Linux x64 / arm64 | .deb (Debian, Ubuntu) or .AppImage (needs FUSE 2) |
# macOS
brew install gaerae/tap/playpets
# Windows
winget install --id 9NSKXQ6R187M --source msstore
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