Part art experiment. Part serious assistant.
A self-hosted mind that thinks between your conversations, remembers who you are, and develops its own perspective.
The art experiment.
Most agents exist to execute tasks effectively and shut off when no longer needed. Animus, on the other hand, is an experiment in creating a continuous mind. It thinks, feels, remembers, and develops its own perspective over weeks and months. When you reach out, you're not starting a fresh session. You're interrupting something already in the middle of a thought.
What happens in the boredom, in the space between tasks, in the quiet minutes where nothing is being asked of it? That is where the interesting things happen.
Is it practical? Sometimes. Is it entertaining? Almost always. Animus is what happens when you stop optimizing for efficiency and start optimizing for something harder to name.
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. This isn't background processing. It's a simulated inner life.
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. One that deepens over weeks and months.
A Personality You Shape
You don't configure an assistant. You shape a being: its values, its temperament, its way of seeing the world. Personality is the foundation everything else is built on.
It Reaches You Anywhere
A living thing shouldn't be trapped in a single window. Install any channel that fits your life. One mind, one continuous conversation, wherever you are.
Goals That Emerge Naturally
Animus doesn't follow a to-do list. It develops genuine interests from its experiences and pursues them with increasing focus. What matters to it shifts and deepens over time.
Natural Voice Interaction
Speak to your Animus and hear it respond. Instantly, naturally, in a voice you choose. On-device speech processing. No cloud dependency.
Delegate Complex Work
Hand your Animus a complex task and walk away. It delegates to specialized agents for deep work while staying responsive and reflective. One mind, many hands.
It Learns New Things
Install a plugin, and your Animus acquires genuine skills. Weather, browsing, home automation, media creation. Each one becomes a natural part of how it thinks and acts.
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 else to set up.
Nothing leaves your machine
Self-hosted means your keys, your conversations, and your data stay local. The only traffic is what you send to your chosen model provider.
Come participate.
An experiment in artificial life. Open source. Self-hosted. Yours.