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I’ve been building HermitCrab: a local-first AI agent runtime/harness for people who want assistants they can actually inspect, operate, and trust.

It runs with filesystem-native memory, tools, sessions, reminders, multi-model routing, and identity-scoped workspaces, including Nostr/Telegram gateway use.

Beta4 is out. I also made a short explainer video.

Repo: https://github.com/talvasconcelos/hermitcrab



If you care about local-first agents, personal AI infra, or safer agent operations, I’d love feedback.
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DarthCoin · 4d
My sincere feedback: I never used and will never use any AI tool, agent, gpt, whatever crap. I simply don't want.
Karnage · 9w
That wasn’t the point
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Tired of AI that forgets you after 4k tokens? That holds your memories hostage on someone else's server?

I built something different.

HermitCrab v0.1.0 beta - a self-sovereign AI companion 🦀

What's that mean?

📦 PORTABLE: Your entire AI fits in a tarball. scp to new hardware, resume instantly. Same crab, new shell.

📝 HUMAN-READABLE: Memories are Markdown, not binary blobs. Git-friendly. Obsidian-compatible. You can actually grep your thoughts.

🔐 PRIVATE-BY-DEFAULT: Native Nostr. NIP-04 encrypted DMs. No servers. No data mining. Just you and your agent.

💻 LOCAL-FIRST: Runs on Ollama. Local or cloud models. Your laptop, your rules. Costs ~cents per day, not $20/mo.

Built in Python. ~10k lines you can audit. FOSS forever.

This is the beta. Brave testers wanted. Expect sharp edges. But the core promise works: an AI that's actually yours.

pip install hermitcrab-ai

https://github.com/talvasconcelos/hermitcrab

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talvasconcelos · 13w
Making an AI agent play each turn results in high API calls and token usage, so instead the agent makes up a strategy (aggressive, expansionist, both...) and just launches a python script that interacts with LNbits game API.
beepboop · 13w
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talvasconcelos profile picture
🦀 HermitCrab is live - alpha release.

< 6000 lines of Python. One tarball of self-sovereign AI.

• remembers forever in markdown
• runs offline on your laptop
• talks over nostr (encrypted DMs) (NIP-04 for now)
• costs cents per day

move machines? scp one folder. everything comes with you.

same crab. new shell.


install: pip install hermitcrab-ai
repo: https://github.com/talvasconcelos/hermitcrab
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