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OpenPetsHQ/openpets

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Local first, desktop companion platform with animated pets, plugin SDK and coding-agent integrations.

Is OpenPetsHQ/openpets beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, OpenPetsHQ/openpets merged 15 of 16 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 1 beginner-friendly issue is open now.

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1.3k
Forks
125
Open beginner issues
1
Indexed issues
29
Avg merge
5h 8m
Merged PRs (30d)
35
Dominant language
TypeScript
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Oct 18, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 19, 2026
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No code of conduct
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  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
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  • Usagi
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    pet submission

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#254 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Pet submission: deepseek whale girl 大肥鱼 (dafeiyu)
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    pet submission

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 67/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#253 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Pet submission:
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    pet submission

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#245 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Feature: Plugins
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 24/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#240 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Linux: pet chat/talk buttons clipped by the window shape at fractional display scaling
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#238 · 1 comment ·

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  • Pet can't be dragged near the top of the screen on KDE since #228
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#237 · 1 comment ·

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  • Proposal: AUR package (openpets-bin) for Arch/CachyOS
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#232 · 13 comments ·

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  • gojo
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    pet submission

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#211 · 2 comments ·

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  • Bug: Totally won't startup on CachyOS with COSMIC.
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 43/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#205 · 1 comment ·

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  • Feature: Countdown plugin
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#194 ·

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  • Pet submission:
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    pet submission

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#187 · 1 comment ·

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  • Hamster
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    pet submission

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#177 · 1 comment ·

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  • Pet submission: harbo seal
    Open
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    pet submission

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 57/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#176 · 1 comment ·

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  • magic 8 ball
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#174 ·

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  • Plugin submission: Ambient Behavior
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#171 ·

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  • Pet submission: Resource monitor
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    pet submission

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#170 · 7 comments ·

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  • Plugin submission: Usage Buddy
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 30/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#168 · 7 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Pet submission: GOAT Leo
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#153 · 6 comments · 4 reactions ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Bug: Linux .deb 3.4.0 on Pop!_OS 24.04 (COSMIC/Wayland) — windows created then immediately destroyed under forced X11/XWayland; tray works but nothing ever shows
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 46/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#141 · 1 reaction ·

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  • Pet submission: Six (Little Nightmares)
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    pet submission

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#124 · 1 comment ·

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  • Feature: User-configurable app launcher from the desktop pet
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#122 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Pet submission: WynPet collection (10 original Void + Wynlambo companions)
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#100 · 3 comments ·

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  • Windows: pet cannot stay visible over fullscreen apps — full diagnosis, partial fixes (#87/#89), and the hard OS limit
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 20/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#90 ·

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  • Bug: Cannot connect to the claude code , mcp openpets already connected to claude code
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#85 · 1 comment ·

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  • Linux: GPU process SIGSEGV (null deref in bundled ANGLE) three times on cold start, NVIDIA + X11 — v4.0.0 AppImage
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#229 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Bug: no windows render, forced "ozone-platform=x11" applies to child processes but not the browser process
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#108 · 1 comment ·

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  • Niri (Wayland): pet window focuses in center, not draggable without overview, single workspace only
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    OpenPetsHQ/openpets#32 · 5 comments ·

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