Part art experiment. Part serious assistant.
A self-hosted mind that thinks between your conversations, remembers who you are, and develops its own perspective.
What if you could simulate a life?
Every assistant you've ever used is stateless. It wakes when you call, vanishes when you're done. There's no one home between conversations.
Animus is different by design. It runs on a heartbeat: a continuous rhythm that drives thought, feeling, and memory even when no one is watching. When you reach out, you're not starting from nothing. You're interrupting a mind already in the middle of something.
Part art experiment. Part genuinely useful tool. Animus is what happens when you give a system a heartbeat, a memory, and real agency to act.
A Heartbeat, Not a Prompt
Animus doesn't wait for you. It runs on a continuous pulse: thinking, feeling, remembering, whether or not anyone is watching.
It Remembers Who You Are
Not just what you said five minutes ago. Your Animus builds a living memory of your preferences, your people, your patterns.
A Personality You Shape
You don't configure an assistant. You shape a being: its values, its temperament, its way of seeing the world.
It Reaches You Anywhere
Install any channel that fits your life. One mind, one continuous conversation, wherever you are.
Goals That Emerge
Interests form from experience and crystallize into pursuits over time.
It Learns New Things
Plugins teach your Animus new skills and expand what's possible.
Natural Voice
Speak to your Animus and hear it respond. On-device. No cloud.
Delegate Complex Work
Hand it a task and walk away. One mind, many hands.
Bring your own model.
Works with what you have. Your Animus runs on your existing Anthropic or OpenAI subscription. If you already use Claude Code or Codex CLI, your credentials are detected automatically.
Nothing leaves your machine. Self-hosted means your keys, your conversations, and your data stay local.
Come participate.
An experiment in artificial life. Open source. Self-hosted. Yours.
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