| name | avatar-start |
| description | Wake the VAPE desktop-pet avatar and voice server in the background, health-check it, and say hello. |
avatar-start — VAPE skill (shared agent wrapper)
The canonical instructions live in .claude/commands/avatar/start.md (workspace-relative).
Read that file now and follow it as this skill's full instructions.
Summary of steps:
- Run
uv run vape start as a background task so the avatar and the voice server on :5111 come up without blocking the conversation.
- Health-check:
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" http://localhost:5111/ — 200 means the body is up; 000 means it is still booting (say so honestly).
- Once up, speak a brief hello with
uv run vape speak "..." so she lands out loud.