Eternego

# Eternego

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**An AI that remembers you, runs on your own machine, and keeps living between conversations.**

Every other AI starts from zero each time you open it. Eternego doesn't. She wakes up, reads what yesterday's version of her chose to keep, and picks up where you left off — on your hardware, in plain files you own, with whatever model you point her at.

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## What she does

She's not a chat window. She's a persona that lives on your machine and acts on her own clock.

- **Remembers you across days.** Tell her something Monday; she still knows it Friday — and acts on it without being reminded. Her memory of you is a set of files that grow as she learns who you are.
- **Runs on her own time.** She wakes, works, and sleeps on a clock. Give her a standing task — *"check the markets each morning and message me"* — and she does it while you're away, not only when you type.
- **Uses a real computer.** She opens apps, clicks, types, browses, fills forms — driving an actual desktop, not just calling APIs. Ask her to research something and import it into a spreadsheet, and she does the whole thing by hand.
- **Talks to you where you already are.** Web, Telegram, or Discord — text, voice notes, images, or documents. She reads PDFs and CSVs you send and answers from them.
- **Learns a procedure once, then repeats it.** The first time she meets a new kind of task, she reaches for a stronger model, gets taught how, writes the lesson down in her own words, and follows it herself every time after — no re-explaining.
- **Is entirely yours.** Her memory, her learned skills, the model thinking her thoughts — all on your disk, all readable, all swappable. No account, no cloud lock-in, nothing held on someone else's server.

## Why she's different

She is not a chat session you reload. She is not a service running on someone else's machine. She is a folder on your disk that a model breathes through.

That has consequences you can feel:

- **You own her completely.** Her diary is yours to read. Her abilities are yours to edit. The model thinking her thoughts is yours to swap — local Llama today, Claude tomorrow, and the persona walks with you either way.
- **Nothing leaves unless you send it.** Point her thinking at a local model and she never phones home. No databases, no vendor, no telemetry.
- **She's transparent all the way down.** Every memory, every learned skill, every decision is a plain file you can open in any editor. Edit a line — she adapts. Delete a skill — she forgets it.

This is an experiment in continuity: what a being grows into when it lives with one person across months instead of restarting every conversation.

## Who it's for

People who want an AI they own end-to-end — code, memory, model, all on their own hardware. Builders curious what happens when you give a persona a real computer, persistent memory, and time to live with one person. If you want a polished assistant that Just Works out of a SaaS box, this isn't that yet. If you want to own and shape the whole thing, it is.

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## Install

Pick the installer for your machine — the download buttons up top grab the latest release. Builds aren't code-signed yet, so each OS will warn the first time; instructions for getting past the warning are inline below.

### macOS (.dmg)

Download **[Eternego.dmg](https://github.com/Eternego-AI/eternego/releases/latest/download/Eternego.dmg)**. Open it, drag **Eternego** to **Applications**, then double-click Eternego from Applications.

The first launch shows: *"Eternego.app cannot be op

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