avatar-me

You've probably seen apps with those fun little avatars for each user. This skill helps you make your own, starting with the logo and colours already in your codebase.

Four green Ormitar characters peek out, form a grid, and settle back into one.
Ormitar, the character family I built for Fóir.

Give your coding agent the skill and a project. It looks through your brand assets, suggests a character, and builds an animated component in your app's own stack. A username or stable user ID gives each person a repeatable variation. You keep the source code.

It started with four dots

Fóir's logo gave us four dots to work with. I wanted them to be complete little characters, hiding behind one another until they peeked out. The first idea put dots above a blob, which missed it. Overlapping the bodies got us closer, and concealing the companions at rest made it feel right.

A study of the original four dots, the animated character family, and the final clover-shaped mark.
A reconstruction of the design process. The static logo kept the compact shape and lost its eyes.

We settled on the round version for the demo. The animated character kept its expressions, while the static logo became a simple mark. Ormitar predates this skill; that process helped me write it.

A move of its own

The skill suggests gestures that fit the shapes it finds. A folded corner can open when it gets curious; a rounded character might hop when something succeeds. It also covers the less visible work: stable identities, reduced motion, and keeping an avatar readable when it's tiny.

Eight Ormitar variants with different silhouettes and shades of green.
A few shapes from the Ormitar family.

Blobatar by Alain00 inspired the original exploration. Ormitar became an independent implementation, and avatar-me guides your agent to build a component in your own project. Neither library is a dependency of the skill.