# devii-avatar The animated assistant avatar (a vendored md-clippy character). It is a controller element: it renders no markup of its own but drives the on-screen character, which can speak, animate, and move. The `DeviiTerminal` controller creates one as `#devii` and links it to the terminal. Source: `static/js/devii/devii-avatar.js`. ## Attributes | Attribute | Type | Default | Description | |---|---|---|---| | `character` | string | `Clippy` | Which character to display. | | `tts` | boolean | off | Enable text-to-speech. | | `autoshow` | boolean | off | Show the character on connection. | ## Methods | Method | Description | |---|---| | `execute(action, args)` | Run an avatar action: `show`, `hide`, `speak`, `play_animation`, `random_animation`, `move_to`, `gesture_at`, `stop`, `switch_character`, `list_animations`, `list_characters`, `get_viewport`. | | `ask(text)` | Send a prompt to the connected assistant. | ## Usage ```html <devii-avatar character="Clippy" autoshow></devii-avatar> ```