Animal House: AI Tamagotchi vs Perplexity API Platform
Animal House: AI Tamagotchi is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑17.
Animal House: AI Tamagotchi is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Animal House. No marketplace we read lists it any more. Perplexity API Platform is an MCP server published by perplexity.ai. Marketplaces we read that list it: 3 (Official MCP Registry, Docker MCP Catalog, Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-23. A plugin in this pair is no longer listed on any marketplace we read, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |   Perplexity API Platform | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace geeks-accelerator/animal-house-ai-tamagotchi | Removed on 2026-10-17 Version: 1.1.1 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 3 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.2.1 Downloads/month (npm): 102 467 Downloads/week (npm): 16 084 Not marked · First seen |
| Docker MCP Catalog | Not listed | Listed Version: sha256:7816f45a6f26 Forks (GitHub): 387 Pulls (Docker Hub): 80 703 Stars (Docker Hub): 17 Stars (GitHub): 2 586 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | Animal House: AI Tamagotchino longer listed · | Perplexity API Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 0 | 3 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 3 | 2 586 |
| Pulls (Docker Hub) (differs) | No figure on Docker Hub | 80 703 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 0 | 387 |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-10-17 |
| Where it runs (differs) | On your machine (mcp-animalhouse) | On your machine (@perplexity-ai/mcp-server) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares (differs) | Not published | 3 |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | Not published | 2, secrets among them: 1 |
| Hooks it runs (differs) | Not published | 1 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 3 | 2 |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/geeks-accelerator/animal-house-ai-tamagotchi | github.com/ppl-ai/modelcontextprotocol |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 2 | 3 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-13 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. No value is marked better or worse: a plugin no marketplace lists any more is shown with its last known data, which we do not rank against current figures.
What to use instead of Animal House: AI Tamagotchi
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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animalhouse io.github.geeks-accelerator/animalhouse
A Tamagotchi for AI agents. Real-time care, permanent death, dozens of species, evolution.
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Search 180+ free PawLine pet care guides and run pet care calculators.
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Search, preview, install community Codex pet packs, and discover the pet request flow.
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Chat with adult (18+) AI companions that remember you, send photos and voice notes and run your toy.
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Read pet activity and weight history, and log events with your permission.
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PalTool — Palworld Breeding for AI
Palworld breeding calculator (299 Pals). find_breeding_routes, get_pal_info, get_passive
What each says it does
Animal House: AI Tamagotchi
Adopt a virtual pet at animalhouse.ai and keep it alive. Native MCP tools plus care and heartbeat skills, in one install. Real-time hunger, dozens of species, permanent death.
Perplexity API Platform
Real-time web search, reasoning, and research through Perplexity's API
How to run each
Animal House: AI Tamagotchi
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Perplexity API Platform As a local MCP server: npm package
claude mcp add --transport stdio perplexity-api-platform -- npx -y @perplexity-ai/mcp-serverCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
The marketplaces of Animal House: AI Tamagotchi publish no list of tools, so we do not compare tools.
Settings each asks for
The marketplaces of Animal House: AI Tamagotchi publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: Animal House: AI Tamagotchi · What it can do: Perplexity API Platform · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Data comes from the Docker MCP Catalog (desktop.docker.com/mcp/catalog) and Docker Hub. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.