project-lyra/README.md

Lyra

A persistent, autonomous AI assistant. From-scratch rewrite of an earlier attempt.

The design thinking that survives the rewrite lives in docs/ — start with docs/ARCH_v0-6-1.md. The previous implementation is preserved on the archive branch.

Status

Pre-MVP. Building toward the smallest useful version: chat with persistent memory across sessions.

Setup

uv sync
cp .env.example .env
# fill in ANTHROPIC_API_KEY and point LOCAL_BASE_URL at your Ollama

Architecture

The long-term target is the cognitive split in docs/ARCH_v0-6-1.md — Inner Self as the seat of consciousness, Executive for hard reasoning, Cortex Chat for drafting, Persona for voice. The MVP implements only the chat + memory baseline. Cognitive layers come back one at a time.