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 
