FAMILIAR
Your self-hosted AI companion

A personal AI agent that lives on your machine, learns your workflow, and works for you — not a corporation.

The Constitution

Every Familiar is born with these principles

Who are you?

Your Familiar needs to know its owner

What would you like to call me?

Give your creature a name

Choose a Species

Each species gives your Familiar a unique personality

Choose Colors

Pick body, eye, and accent colors for your creature

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Choose Your LLM

Which AI brain powers your Familiar?

Get an API key   Your key stays on your machine.

Security

Set an owner PIN and optional encryption

This PIN lets you claim ownership when messaging your bot for the first time.
Encrypt data at rest
Conversations, tasks, contacts encrypted on disk
If you lose this passphrase, your data is unrecoverable.

Review

Confirm your configuration

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