Agent Buddies Releases Replaceable Animated Character Components
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Agent Buddies has released a set of replaceable animated character components that let users pick character appearances for AI agents. The project offers 10 original characters, each uniformly supporting 8 agent states, driven by a deterministic event stream with no API calls required. The components provide three implementations: React, Web Components, and SwiftUI; the code is under the MIT license, and the art assets are openly licensed. The project includes a searchable character selector, supports locally remembering preferences, offline fallback, and reduced motion, and allows developers to submit their own characters. A CLI preview is currently available, while the npm release is still awaiting owner review.
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Agent Buddies is a library of ten original animated characters that each express the same eight agent states, driven by a deterministic event stream with no API calls. It ships React, Web Components and SwiftUI support under MIT code with openly licensed art, plus a picker that lets end users browse, preview and save a favorite buddy on their device. Artists can create their own characters by defining regions on a master image and validating a pack, with a CLI preview available via npx while the npm release awaits owner review.
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