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Create, repair, validate, preview, upload, or activate an animated v2 pet in ChatGPT Work mode from a character idea, brand cue, or reference image. Use for new ChatGPT Pets, custom mascots, non-pixel styles, and unattached sprite sheets requiring nine animation states plus sixteen look directions. Preserve Library artifacts and Pets MCP lifecycle behavior. Exclude real pets, standalone images, and other-app pets; clarify before invoking.

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# Create Pet

Create a consistent, readable animated ChatGPT pet, show its motion, save the artifacts to Library, and create it only after the final sprite sheet passes validation. New and replacement artwork uses the supported v2 sheet: eleven rows with nine animation states and sixteen clockwise look directions. Existing v1 sheets remain valid for inspection and preview.

Keep every preview revision in this creation workflow until `create_pet` returns a stable pet ID. Do not load `update-pet` or call `update_pet` for a not-yet-created pet.

Read and follow [the shared sprite-sheet and preview contract](../../references/sprite-sheet-contract.md) before generating, validating, repairing, or previewing artwork. It defines the exact v1/v2 layouts, Library requirements, state semantics, look-direction rules, acceptance gates, and required previews.

## Preserve the request and prepare Library

Preserve the user's character idea, source images, requested name, description, style, and activation preference. Treat character art, generated images, existing sprite sheets, contact sheets, and built-in pet art as identity references rather than assuming they already have final cell geometry.

- Infer a missing name from an unambiguous concept, brand, or reference; otherwise choose a short friendly name or ask when the choice materially affects the result.
- Infer a concise description when one is not supplied.
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