Kavana

Community companion 01 · Codex v2

Meet
Kavana.

כוונה · intention

A black-and-tan Shiba Inu with a curious mind, a curled tail, and absolutely no intention of sitting still when there are zoomies to do.

Download Kavana Open the source
Atlas
1536 × 2288
States
9 + 16 looks
Package
2 runtime files
Kavana’s trail A little hello
base camp lookout sniff zone
Hi! I’m Kavana.

From Karo to Kavana

A real dog,
reimagined with intention.

Kavana began as Karo, a much-loved black-and-tan Shiba Inu. Codex helped translate her unmistakable eyebrow spots, cream muzzle, upright ears, compact build, and curled tail into a complete animated companion.

Her Hebrew name means intention: a tiny reminder that careful engineering can still have warmth, personality, and the occasional sprint across the screen.

Species
Shiba Inu Temperament
Curious + loyal Special skill
Purposeful zoomies

Field-tested in Project Caro

More than a looping sprite.

Kavana’s web personality was contributed to Project Caro first. There she behaves like a tiny project guide—not a decorative GIF—and this page brings that interaction vocabulary home.

Explore the Caro contribution
  1. 01
    Roam

    She follows a purposeful route, changes direction, and pauses to inspect the page.

  2. 02
    Respond

    Zoomies, waves, jumps, looks, work, review, rest, and sleep all use her real atlas states.

  3. 03
    Keep company

    The Caro companion can be dragged, tucked away, recalled, and allowed to fall asleep.

  4. 04
    Guide

    She helps visitors understand the roadmap, install the pet, or hatch a companion of their own.

Desktop → Mobile

One selection,
two places to wake her.

There is no separate phone package. Install and select Kavana on a supported Codex Desktop host, then connect that host to the ChatGPT mobile app using the same account.

  1. 1

    Install Kavana into your desktop .codex/pets folder.

  2. 2

    Select custom:kavana in Codex Desktop on the host.

  3. 3

    Connect from ChatGPT mobile, then open the Remote tab for that host.

Codex mobile announcement Pet settings Repair guide

Honest boundary: Kavana’s package and helpers are verified across desktop operating systems. OpenAI’s current mobile remote setup starts from a macOS Codex host; Windows-host support is still listed as coming soon. This page does not claim a separately tested native Kavana mobile package.

Codex Desktop
custom:kavana selected
Codex mobile
Ready when you are

Complete animation set

Nine working moods.
Sixteen curious looks.

Hover, focus, or tap a card to play it. Every preview comes from the same transparent WebP atlas shipped in the release.

01 Idlebreath + tail
02 Run rightzoomies →
03 Run left← more zoomies
04 Wavehello, human
05 Jumptiny victory
06 Failedsomething broke
07 Waitingyour move
08 Workingtask in motion
09 Reviewchecking twice
10 Look around16 clockwise directions · Codex v2

Install

Bring her
home to Codex.

Choose your platform, run the installer, then select Kavana under Settings → Appearance → Pets. Refresh custom pets and restart Codex if she is not listed yet.

Prefer a release ZIP? Download it here
terminal
git clone https://github.com/wildcard/kavana-codex-pet.git
cd kavana-codex-pet
./scripts/install.sh

Package verification runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

Open atlas

Transparent,
checked, and inspectable.

Kavana’s public package contains the runtime files, curated source frames, row strips, per-state previews, canonical identity render, checksums, and sanitized provenance—without private photos or generation logs.

Grid
8 columns × 11 rows
Cell
192 × 208 px
Sprite format
Transparent RGBA WebP
Sprite version
2 · pointer-aware
SHA-256
0f0ac426d9f9446348024e5e5b8a1cd33c07ca960d3776f50cff69459fd2296a
Checksums Metadata Verification CI
Labeled contact sheet showing Kavana's complete 8 by 11 animation atlas Open full contact sheet
Kavana's approved canonical black-and-tan Shiba Inu identity render
Identity referenceApproved canonical base

Codex Pet Web SDK

Kavana can visit
any website.

The reusable companion behind this live card accepts any valid Codex pet.json and transparent atlas. Install the npm package, use one custom element, or hand the hosted skill to a coding agent.

<script src="https://unpkg.com/codex-pet-companion@0.3.1/dist/codex-pet-companion.global.js"
  integrity="sha384-HCdZidL2jzxEW9SQR6w9TAZGehFjyRvAFQwUvc+nBeiFZdpNVy5sSRFZtQRZD4II"
  crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<codex-pet-companion></codex-pet-companion>

CDN quick-start: the bare element loads Kavana’s default manifest and atlas from unpkg. For strict-CSP self-hosting, host all three files and set manifest-url plus atlas-url explicitly, as this live card does.

Try the SDK field guide Open the SDK source
Live SDK instance · local assets

Community-made, openly documented

Hatch carefully.
Share joyfully.

Kavana was hatched with Codex pet tooling, inspired by Malou’s excellent public project, and contributed back to Project Caro. This is a community project—not an official OpenAI or Codex asset.

Caro field guideCommunity integration → ContributeBuild with us → AttributionCredits + provenance → LicenseMIT + CC BY-NC 4.0 → PrivacyNo private references →