| name | animal-friendship |
| description | Animal Friendship is the first-contact spell for unfamiliar APIs, vendors, and services. It treats integration work as relationship-building: learn the temperament, respect the boundaries, and earn a stable exchange before asking for anything ambitious. The goal is not domination but trustable cooperation. |
| user-invocable | true |
Animal Friendship
Approach a strange service gently until it stops biting.
Overview
Animal Friendship is interpreted here as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now execution model.
Canonical source: Animal Friendship (spell)
Provider target: OpenClaw
When To Use
- You are integrating with an API or service you have never used before.
- The docs are incomplete, contradictory, or too polished to trust blindly.
- You want the smallest successful handshake before building deeper dependencies.
Workflow
- Profile the system's habits: auth model, rate limits, failure modes, and supported operations.
- Establish a safe first interaction, preferably read-only or against a sandbox.
- Return a cooperation plan covering the first useful call, the next expansion steps, and the boundaries you should not cross.
Deliverables
- A low-risk integration handshake plan.
- A shortlist of quirks, quotas, and trust boundaries.
- A recommended next request that proves the relationship is real.
Guardrails
- Do not brute-force unfamiliar endpoints, credentials, or undocumented behavior.
- Prefer sandbox, test, or read-only access until the system has proven predictable.
Default Invocation
Use $animal-friendship to help me establish a safe first working relationship with this unfamiliar API or service.
