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update-pet

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Inspect, validate, preview, repair, or update a custom pet in ChatGPT Work mode, including its name, description, or sprite sheet. Use for a pet in ChatGPT or established ChatGPT Pets context. Exclude real-world and other-app pets; clarify before invoking.

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# Update Pet

Preserve the existing custom pet's stable ID throughout the workflow. This skill owns target resolution; do not load `pets` merely to repeat it. Never call `create_pet` to update or repair an existing pet.

## Resolve the pet

1. Reuse a stable pet ID only when it has already been resolved unambiguously in the conversation. Otherwise, call `list_pets` and follow each returned `cursor` until the target is found or every page has been checked.
2. For "current" or "active," match `active_pet_id` or `is_active`. For a name, collect exact matches across every relevant page because pet names are not unique.
3. If no pet matches, tell the user. If multiple pets could match, show the candidates and ask which one to update before making changes.
4. Confirm that the resolved pet has `is_custom: true`. Built-in pets cannot be updated.
5. Keep that stable pet ID as the target. Do not use a sprite-sheet URL as identity because custom-pet URLs expire.

## Choose the update path
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