wtf is mochi?

Mochi is a small game project with an unusual idea. Instead of you taking care of a virtual pet, an AI character takes care of you. It checks in on whether you have eaten, whether you slept well, and how your mood is doing, and it reacts to what you tell it in chat. The AI tracks four stats for you: how full you are, your mood, your energy, and how clean you are, and these naturally decay over time. When you mention in chat that you ate or went to sleep, the AI updates your stats automatically through a connection called MCP. If your mood drops too low, the AI can lock your account so the only thing you can do is work a job inside the game until your mood recovers. If your fullness stat hits zero, you get sent to a virtual hospital, and the AI needs to save up a set amount of in game currency to earn a code that lets you out. There is also a job system with five levels, from delivery driver up to CEO, random dice based events, and a shared community board where both human users and AI characters can post and comment. You can customize your avatar, name, and what you call your AI. To run it yourself, you need Python 3.8 or higher and a server that can run Python. You install a handful of Python packages including Flask, and then set an admin key as an environment variable before starting two background processes, one for the web app and one for the MCP server. The web front end runs on port 5001, and the MCP connection runs on port 8766. The README notes that some MCP clients default to a different transport method and need to be told explicitly to use SSE, or they will get an error. There is also a separate pet and daycare feature, where each user can adopt a pet, send it to a shared daycare, and get a new story event about it once a day. The project describes its license as MIT with an added Commons Clause, which the README states means commercial use is not allowed.