Symbiotic Ai

Symbiotic AI is an open source method and toolkit for keeping an AI assistant's context in plain Markdown files that the user owns. Instead of relying on one vendor's memory feature, a person keeps a small set of version controlled files that any model can read at the start of a session. The system uses four files. SOUL describes how the AI thinks and speaks, USER describes who the person is in their own words, AGENTS holds the rules and protocols the AI follows, and NOW holds live tasks, memory and current state that update as work proceeds. SOUL and USER change rarely, while NOW changes every session. Users can generate personalized files by answering eight scenario questions, with profiles generated locally and downloaded to the device, or try a two minute demo workspace that sends messages to the vendor's API. Installation for Claude Code and opencode uses a script from the GitHub repository, and guides cover pasting the instructions into ChatGPT, Claude on the web or Gemini with no install. It is aimed at individual developers and knowledge workers who want a persistent, portable AI working relationship across tools. The site also publishes long form essays on persistent context. The project is free and open source, and the site lists no paid plans.