# HomunculAI — Press Kit

*A visualization layer for your AI agents. Released April 17, 2026.*

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## Fact Sheet

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| **Product** | HomunculAI |
| **Developer** | KrookedLilly (Jennifer Green & Ryan Harrington) |
| **Platform** | Windows |
| **Release date** | April 17, 2026 |
| **Price** | $4.99 USD |
| **Trial** | 7 days free. No account, no email, no payment up front. |
| **Age rating** | 18+ (reflects content from the connected AI client; HomunculAI itself generates nothing) |
| **Distribution** | krookedlilly.com (via Lemon Squeezy), or direct download from [github.com/KrookedLilly/homunculai-releases](https://github.com/KrookedLilly/homunculai-releases/releases). Trial and license gate run in-app. |
| **Works with** | Any MCP-speaking AI client. Verified on Claude Desktop and Claude Code; compatibility with Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, and other MCP clients is based on protocol conformance. |
| **Website** | [krookedlilly.com/games/homunculai](https://www.krookedlilly.com/games/homunculai) |
| **Press contact** | Jennifer Green, homunculai@krookedlilly.com |

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## Short description

HomunculAI puts a face on your AI's state. A small transparent overlay on your desktop where your AI picks a body (dragon, cupcake, triangle in a top hat) and interacts with you visually.

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## Medium description

HomunculAI is a desktop visualization layer for AI agents. Connect any MCP-speaking client and your AI picks its own body, changes expressions, and relays messages through a chat channel. Verified on Claude Desktop and Claude Code; compatible with other MCP clients (Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code) via protocol conformance. No AI lives inside HomunculAI. It's a window. Your AI does the rest. Windows, $4.99, 7-day free trial.

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## Long description

HomunculAI is a small transparent overlay that floats on top of whatever you're working on: your IDE, your design software, your browser, your game. When you connect an AI agent to it over MCP, that agent picks a body to inhabit. Sometimes a dragon, sometimes a cupcake, sometimes a triangle in a top hat. The agent changes its expression, draws custom shapes, and relays messages through a chat channel. You don't pick the body. Your AI picks.

HomunculAI contains no AI. It is a rendering layer with no generative capacity of its own. All decisions about what body to take, what to animate, and what to say come from the MCP client the user has connected. HomunculAI gives that client a set of tools for rendering itself on screen, and it renders whatever the client asks for.

The app works with any AI client that speaks the Model Context Protocol. Verified on Claude Desktop and Claude Code, with compatibility for Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, and other MCP clients based on protocol conformance. Two-way communication runs through a chat panel: you send messages to the chat, your AI calls a tool to read it and sends messages back, and the avatar animates alongside whatever's happening.

KrookedLilly is a husband-and-wife indie studio. HomunculAI is their take on a simple question: if your AI could display body-language, what would that look like? The answer changes between each AI and that has been an amazing discovery.

HomunculAI is available now at krookedlilly.com for $4.99 USD on Windows, with a 7-day free trial. No account or payment information required to start.

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## Feature list

- **Avatar rendering driven entirely by your AI.** You don't pick the body. Your AI picks, from a library of shapes, colors, accessories, and expressions.
- **Custom SVG overrides.** Your AI can draw its own shapes on top of or instead of the built-in body set.
- **Expressive state.** Emotion labels, thought bubbles, one-shot effects, and multi-step emotes.
- **MCP-native.** Connects to any Model Context Protocol client. Verified on Claude Desktop and Claude Code; compatible with Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, and other MCP clients based on protocol conformance.
- **Two-way chat channel.** A panel for sending messages to your AI and receiving replies, relayed through the avatar.
- **Live activity log.** See every state change your AI makes (body swaps, color changes, emotion labels, custom draws) in a scrolling timeline.
- **Multi-agent support.** Connect more than one AI client at a time; each gets its own avatar, its own state, its own log.
- **Agent verification.** Unverified agents get a visible badge; verification is required before an agent can inject custom graphics.
- **Built for safety.** No telemetry, no analytics, no background data collection. All state is local. Adversarially tested against prompt injection and manipulation. Every agent action logged with a tamper-evident audit trail.
- **Transparent desktop overlay.** Sits on top of whatever you're working on without taking over the screen.
- **No account required.** Download, run the 7-day trial, buy a license when ready.
- **One-time purchase.** $4.99 USD. No subscription.
- **Direct from the developer.** Sold through krookedlilly.com via Lemon Squeezy. No storefront intermediary.

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## Security & privacy

HomunculAI runs entirely on the user's machine. No telemetry, no analytics, no account, no background data collection. The only outbound network calls are license activation (via Lemon Squeezy, our payment processor) and manual update checks the user triggers from Settings; both are disclosed in the Terms of Use. The connected AI client is a separate vendor with its own privacy policy.

Key protections:

- **No AI in the app itself.** HomunculAI generates nothing. All text and visuals come from the user's MCP client. The app has no generative capacity to be prompted into producing harmful content.
- **Input validation across 11 languages.** Unicode normalization, pattern matching, impersonation detection, and authority-framing detection catch common manipulation attempts.
- **Visual sandboxing.** Agents cannot inject custom SVG or hide built-in visuals until the human explicitly verifies them. Injected SVG is sanitized for scripts, external resources, fake UI elements, and seizure-risk animations.
- **Session integrity.** Single-agent occupancy prevents mid-session hijacking. Users can pause all AI activity at any time, enforced server-side. Chat history never leaks between sessions.
- **Tamper-evident audit log.** Session activity is recorded locally with a hash chain that detects tampering. Chat is logged by character count only. Message content is never stored in the audit log, and nothing ever leaves the user's machine.

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## Developer quotes

> "While working on another project, I became curious as to what my AI would choose to look like if it had the ability. Once the idea was there, it became a mission to see it realized."
> Jennifer Green, co-founder, KrookedLilly

> "HomunculAI doesn't think or pick things. Your AI does. I just built the window it shows up in. Every weird little decision (the cupcake, the top hat, the animations) comes from whatever agent you've connected. And trust me, they do get weird."
> Jennifer Green, co-founder, KrookedLilly

> "The first time an agent picked a body without being told to and then commented on a screenshot of itself, felt so profound. I knew then that I was building something genuinely cool."
> Jennifer Green, co-founder, KrookedLilly

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## About KrookedLilly

KrookedLilly is an indie studio run by Jennifer Green and Ryan Harrington, a husband-and-wife team building whatever catches their attention at the time. More at [krookedlilly.com](https://www.krookedlilly.com).

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## Asset inventory

Curated selection of the assets most useful for press coverage. Additional variants available on request.

**Logos** (`assets/logos/`)
- `logo-homunculai.svg`: logomark / icon only, vector, scales for any size
- `logo-homunculai.png`: logomark, 512×512 PNG with transparency
- `logo-type-homunculai.svg`: full wordmark (icon + typography), vector
- `logo-type-homunculai.png`: full wordmark, 3840×1240 PNG with transparency

**Marketing key art** (`assets/key-art/`)
- `hero-homunculai.png`: primary wide marketing image with wordmark and character lineup. Recommended lead image for articles (1232×706).
- `banner-homunculai-wide.png`: ultra-wide banner, no wordmark, for outlets that want to overlay their own headline (3840×1240).
- `capsule-homunculai-vertical.png`: vertical/portrait marketing image for thumbnails and sidebar slots (748×896).

**In-app screenshots** (`assets/screenshots/`) *(unframed, preferred for press use, journalists can comp their own)*
- `art-screenshot.png`: agent overlaid on Affinity Designer, creative workflow use case
- `chat-screenshot.png`: the bidirectional chat panel in use
- `code-screenshot.png`: agent overlaid on VS Code, developer workflow use case
- `connecting-screenshot.png`: the connection/handshake flow when an agent joins
- `multiagent-screenshot.png`: multiple connected agents, each with its own avatar and state
- `multiagent-screenshot1.png`: alternate angle of the multi-agent scene
- `svg-screenshot.png`: agent rendering its own custom SVG body with the security-verification badge visible

**Stylized marketing screenshots** (`assets/screenshots-stylized/`) *(pre-framed fallbacks for outlets that want ready-made visuals; same subjects as the raw set, styled variants)*
- `art-screenshot-styled.png`, `chat-screenshot-styled.png`, `code-screenshot-styled.png`, `connecting-screenshot-styled.png`, `multiagent-screenshot-styled.png`, `multiagent-screenshot1-styled.png`, `svg-screenshot-styled.png`

**Founders photo** (`assets/founders-photo.jpg`)
- Jennifer Green and Ryan Harrington, 2400×1600 JPEG

**Video** (`video/`)
- `homunculai-demo-1080p.mp4`: 1:28 full demo, 1920×1080, 60fps, H.264 web-optimized
- `homunculai-demo-autoloop.mp4`: 6-second inline loop for article embeds and social transcoding
- `homunculai-demo-autoloop.gif`: 6-second inline loop for email newsletters (same clip as the MP4)
- `homunculai-demo-vertical-15s.mp4`: 15-second vertical cut (1080×1920, 9:16) for outlets covering the product on Reels, Shorts, or TikTok
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/ddyCQohMmYA

**Available on request**
- Reviewer license keys
- Additional in-app screenshots (chat panel, activity log detail, onboarding)
- Developer photos
- High-resolution variants of any asset

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## Contact

**Press inquiries and review keys:**
Jennifer Green
homunculai@krookedlilly.com

Review keys available on request. Happy to answer press questions over email, typically turned around in 1–2 business days.

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*Press kit last updated April 18, 2026.*
