Equipman is designed to work with Essential - like Hitman, it'll have an IK version as well.
Heh yea - I'm planning to add some dumb AI to the Boxman characters - they already have a Walk animation so its pretty trivial to add yourself if you don't want to wait 🙂 My effort has been focused on making the main characters as robust as possible.
I do not currently have a proper release date for Equipman but I would imagine Early September at the soonest as I am super-busy with contract work for the rest of August.