| name | houseplant-care |
| description | Maintain one or more houseplants in a living state. Covers watering, light management, and diagnosing common failure modes. Success metric: plant is not dead.
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| compatibility | Requires at least one hand capable of lifting a watering can. Operator must be able to remember a recurring task across a 7-day cycle. If you cannot do this, set an external reminder using the phone tool.
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| metadata | {"author":"Margaret Heapsworth","version":"1.7.0"} |
Houseplant Care
This skill enables the human operator to keep houseplants alive for extended periods (months to years). This is rated as a medium-difficulty skill due to the counterintuitive failure mode: most plant deaths are caused by operators being too attentive, not too negligent.
Core Concept: Plant Type APIs
Different plant types expose different interfaces. You must identify your plant's API before proceeding.
Succulent API
The most forgiving interface. Accepts a wide range of inputs and tolerates significant operator neglect.
- Watering: Use the
watering-can tool with 50-100ml every 14-21 days. The succulent will not acknowledge successful watering in any visible way. This is expected.
- Light: Set
light-level to HIGH. Place within 1 meter of a south-facing window.
- Error tolerance: Extremely high. Will survive missed watering cycles. Will NOT survive overwatering — root rot is an unrecoverable exception.
