avatar-start

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:

1. Run uv run vape start as a background task so the avatar and the voice server on :5111 come up without blocking the conversation.
2. 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).
3. Once up, speak a brief hello with uv run vape speak "..." so she lands out loud.