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title: "Bots with expressions that react to status · Daniel Farina"
description: "Agent harnesses, evals, and the layer around the model."
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last-updated: "2026-08-30"
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# Bots with expressions that react to status · Daniel Farina

Source: https://danielfarina.com/posts/bots-with-expressions-that-react-to-status/

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# Bots with expressions that react to status

Avatar touches for Sub8 — fast local VMs with Grok Build and other harnesses.

     Aug 15, 2026   X post  [Original post ↗](https://x.com/Daniel_Farinax/status/2088971340577693806)            [View on X ↗](https://x.com/Daniel_Farinax/status/2088971340577693806)

Avatar touches for Sub8 — fast local VMs with Grok Build and other harnesses.

My bots have expressions and react based on their status and conversations.

One little touch I'm adding to the new custom app I will be publishing soon where you can really fast VMs locally directly with Grok Build and other harnesses.