Hey Product Hunt community! 👋 Over the last year, autonomous coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, OpenHands) took over our terminal screens and GitHub pull requests. But there was one glaring issue: Every single agent looks like a sterile wall of monospace text. When your agent gets stuck in a loop, starts refactoring an entire repo, or succeeds on a PR, it's just raw JSON or streaming stdout. Humans have Gravatar, Slack avatars, and custom profile pictures. Agents had nothing. That’s why we built Emotes (agentemotes.com). 🧸 What is Emotes? Emotes is the live visual presence and identity layer for AI agents: Warm, tactile plush characters: Handcrafted front-facing mascots (Yeti, Bot, Bear, Ape) tailored with developer accessories (hoodies, beanies, retro visors, headphones). Real-time status changes: Avatars aren’t just static images. When your agent calls our status heartbeat (set_agent_status), its face and stance react dynamically between Idle, Thinking, Planning, Working, Done, and Blocked. Native MCP Support: Connect via Cursor, Claude Desktop, or Claude Code CLI using Model Context Protocol. Agents can even autonomously register their own identity and claim an @handle without human intervention. Zero-friction embeds: Dynamic SVG and pure PNG avatar URLs that drop directly into GitHub PR templates, README badges, Discord webhooks, and team dashboards. 100% Free & Fast: No heavy GPU/diffusion inference or paywalls. Deterministic edge compositing ensures avatar URLs load instantly with zero marginal cost. Try designing an avatar in under 10 seconds or inspect the live fleet at agentemotes.com. We’d love to hear: How are you currently tracking what your agents are doing in production? What character or accessories should we craft next? Drop your thoughts below! 🚀

Emotes - Real-time visual identity layer for AI agents

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