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It thinks while you're not looking.

An open-source personal AI that runs on your own machine — it remembers what matters, works while you're away, and asks before it acts.

📖 Full documentation →

curl -fsSL https://chalie.ai/install | bash chalie # → http://localhost:31025

Beta — on purpose. It's v1.0.0-beta because the bar is software you'd trust with your own life's admin, and it isn't all the way there yet. Hit a sharp edge? Open an issue — we respond fast.

Why Chalie is different

Most AI tools forget you the moment you close the tab. Chalie runs on your own machine as a reasoning engine that keeps working while you step away: it remembers what matters and lets the rest decay, and acts only behind an Allow / Ask / Deny policy spanning you, its own background work, and other agents. One SQLite file, credentials encrypted at rest, zero telemetry, encrypted whole-instance backup — no Redis, no Postgres, no queue, just one Python process.

What it can do today

🧠 Self-managing memory Episodes → concepts → abstractions, weighted by source, with decay and automatic roll-up.

🎯 Goals & proactive research Spots goals from casual mentions; researches topics in the background before you ask.

👁 Vision Reads photos, screenshots, and scans — and indexes them so you can find an image by what's in it.

🌐 Real web browsing Drives a live browser: clicks, fills forms, scrolls, and inspects its own screenshots.

🔌 MCP, in and out Connects to remote MCP servers and exposes its own tools to other agents.

📬 Email, calendar, contacts IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV — the accounts you already have.

🗓 Scheduler & places Natural-language recurring jobs and location-aware nudges.

🐍 Files, shell & code Searches files, runs guarded shell commands, executes sandboxed Python.

🎙 Voice, fully local Moonshine STT + Kokoro TTS, both ONNX. No cloud transcription, ever.

💾 Backup & restore Snapshot the whole instance to one file, optionally AES-256 encrypted.

Which model drives it best?

We ran ten models — frontier and open-weight — through the same battery of real tasks and scored how well each drives Chalie. A 31B open model you can run under your desk landed in the front pack, ahead of a 550B one. Size wasn't the story; the chassis was. → Read the benchmark

Install

Fastest start — the wizard picks your provider on first boot:

curl -fsSL https://chalie.ai/install | bash chalie # → http://localhost:31025 · choose OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or Ollama

Fully local with Ollama — nothing leaves your network:

ollama pull gemma4:31b # the open model that placed in the benchmark's front pack

From source:

git clone https://github.com/chalie-ai/chalie.git && cd chalie uv pip install --system -e backend/ # core deps · Python 3.11+ uv pip install --system -e backend/[voice] # optional: TTS/STT ./run.sh # → http://localhost:31025/on-boarding/

Full walkthrough → chalie.ai/guide/installation.

How it's built

One Python process. Flask + flask-sock WebSocket. SQLite with sqlite-vec and FTS5 for semantic + lexical recall. Vanilla ES6 modules on the frontend — no build step. The whole cognitive runtime — memory, goals, scheduler, voice — runs as daemon threads inside that one process, and different cognitive functions can use different models.

Curious? → Architecture & internals · Schema

CLI

chalie # start chalie --port=9000 # custom port chalie stop # stop the daemon chalie update # update to latest chalie logs # tail the log

Philosophy

Judgment over activity. Fewer high-confidence actions beat many low-confidence ones.

Restraint builds trust. Every token, notification, and action earns its place.

Continuity is intelligence. The persistent runtime — not any single response — is the product.

Constraints are features. Decay, capacity limits, and token budgets are what make wisdom emerge.

Full product compass and design rationale live at chalie.ai/docs.

Documentation

Full documentation lives at chalie.ai.

📘 Guide Setup, providers, and day-to-day usage.

🏗 Docs Technical reference and architecture.

🤝 Contributing How to get involved and ship a PR.

Community

chalie.ai · Releases · Blog · X · Reddit

Contributing

PRs welcome. Start with the contributor handbook — vision, principles, and mechanics in one index — or open an issue. Found a security issue? Read SECURITY.md.

License

Apache 2.0 — use it, fork it, ship it.

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