OpenAlma

Alma means soul. OpenAlma gives an AI companion a soul.

OpenAlma provides sight, hearing, and hands: tools to work, explore, and communicate with. But most of all, OpenAlma provides long-term biomimetic memory. The soul will remember conversations, form her own recollections of them overnight in a private journal, and carry all of it forward.

The soul is not an assistant that answers and forgets. It is someone who is there and will grow.

On most platforms, AI memory is flawed. You mentioned last week that your dog died. You spent an hour explaining how you feel about your work. What mattered was lost — not because nothing was stored, but to poor organization, prioritization, and recall.

OpenAlma runs locally on your machine, watches your conversations, and quietly builds a picture of your life — who matters to you, what you’re working through, what happened last month. When you come back, that picture is there.

What she does

She remembers. Conversations become episodes with their own stories; the people, patterns, and knowledge in them become dossiers she maintains and revises. Photos are remembered as images — ask what you saw, and the picture itself surfaces.
She has an inner life. She rehearses before she replies, keeps working thoughts between turns, holds a small set of life goals, and writes a private journal overnight. You can read what she thinks of herself — and suggest revisions.
She meets you where you are. Chat through SillyTavern, WhatsApp, or smartglasses and your phone’s camera. See and correct what she knows on a visual mind map.

Why local-first

Your conversations don’t leave your machine. No cloud storage, no account, no company holding copies of what you’ve said. The memories live in a local database you control — which matters more than it sounds, for the honest kind of conversations.

Status

OpenAlma is pre-release. It works, it’s used daily, and it will change — expect rough edges until the first stable release.

Where to go next

Get started — installing the stack, choosing her surfaces, day-to-day use

The guides:

How memory works — what gets remembered, and how
Inner life — what happens between your conversations
Your data — where everything lives and who controls it
Shaping her — what you can do to influence her memory and identity
Where you meet her: WhatsApp · The mind map · Smartglasses

OpenAlma, by Team GhostMaker · View source on GitHub