does enabling pets while in session burns more tokens than pets disabled?

[nylla8444]

just curious if there is a difference between in token usage between pets enabled and disabled.

[blackopsrepl]

This

[Gecko51]

Pets are just a UI/status overlay, they don't add anything to your prompt or the conversation context. The animation is purely local, it reads the agent state (running, waiting, ready for review) and renders it on your desktop. So enabling or disabling them in a normal session doesn't change token usage.

The one exception is the /hatch flow if you generate a custom pet from a description. That call goes through the model and obviously costs tokens, but it's a one-shot generation, not something that runs every turn.

tldr: built-in pets are free, hatching a custom one is a one-time cost, normal coding sessions are identical token-wise either way.

[nylla8444]

thanks for the answer!

I actually got the answer earlier after some reading 😅. Thanks anyway, will mark this as answer so that other users can see it too!