Elephant Agent
Do more without thinking less.
A Mother Elephant that grows to understand you, then helps shape the paths you are trying to move.
[Website](https://elephant.agentic-in.ai/)
Β·
[Blog](https://elephant.agentic-in.ai/blog/personal-ai-you-create/)
Β·
[Paper](https://elephant.agentic-in.ai/paper/)
What It Is
Elephant Agent starts from the person, not the task.
The mother elephant grows a correctable Personal Model of who you are, what surrounds you, what is alive right now, and what your path has taught you. That understanding keeps deepening through interaction, correction, and gentle questions.
Once Elephant Agent understands enough, it can help design living Paths: work, health, habits, learning, relationships, recovery, research, code, and any other long-running direction you want to move. It can break a Path into Steps, bring in baby elephants when useful, and return to you at Checkpoints where your judgment matters.
Personal Agent Levels
L1
Executes tasks.
Claude Code, Cursor, Devin, and Codex-style agents make execution cheaper and faster.
L2
Carries context.
[OpenClaw](https://openclaw.ai/) publicly emphasizes local agents, persistent memory, full system access, skills, plugins, and integrations.
L3
Improves procedures.
[Hermes Agent](https://hermes-ai.net/) publicly positions itself around a self-improving learning loop, skill creation, recall, and user modeling.
L4
Grows with the person.
Elephant Agent's product position: Mother understands the person, shapes Paths, and keeps judgment, evidence, questions, and learning close to the person.
Personal Model
-
Identity β who you are, your values, boundaries, decision style, and stable preferences.
-
World β the people, projects, tools, places, and relationships around you.
-
Pulse β what is alive right now: focus, pressure, constraints, energy, and priorities.
-
Journey β what your path has taught: lessons, failures, recovery patterns, and long-running growth.
The goal is not to remember everything. The goal is to understand what matters, show why it matters, let you change it, and turn that understanding into better Paths over time.
macOS Desktop App
The macOS app is the recommended product surface. Chat / Wake is where you talk to Mother; Paths are where long-running life and work arcs become visible; the rest of the app keeps the Personal Model, Herd, skills, messaging, calendar, usage, and advanced runtime settings inspectable instead of hidden behind a chat box.
Home β start from what Mother understands before shaping the next Path.
Preferences
Choose language, boundaries, model posture, and curiosity effort.
Chat / Wake
Return to Mother and the same path, not a blank prompt.
Personal Model
Inspect the understanding that shapes future Paths.
Providers
Use local or hosted models as advanced posture, not the product center.
Skills
See which skills help Mother and the Herd move a Path.
Tools
Keep browser, filesystem, MCP, and operator actions explicit.
Herd
Coordinate Mother and baby elephants under one understanding.
Messaging
Connect WeChat, Feishu, Discord, DingDing, or WeCom when you want it.
Calendar
Keep routines, reminders, and long-running Paths visible.
Usage
Inspect local token flow and runtime events instead of treating cost as a black box.
Quickstart
Elephant Agent has two supported product shapes.
1. macOS desktop app (recommended)
Use this path for the full local desktop workspace: Chat / Wake, Paths, Personal Model, Herd, skills, messaging, calendar, usage, and settings in one native app.
- Download the latest macOS build from GitHub Releases.
- Open
Elephant Agent.app. - Create your first elephant, choose a provider, and set curiosity effort.
- Return through Chat / Wake when you want Mother to continue the same path.
2. CLI + Dashboard (Linux / Cloud)
Use this path for Linux, cloud machines, SSH workflows, and terminal-first operators. The CLI is the daily terminal surface; the Dashboard is the visual inspection surface for Personal Model, evidence, jobs, skills, and runtime state.
CLI
Dashboard
Install:
curl -fsSL https://elephant.agentic-in.ai/install.sh | bash
First run:
elephant init # choose identity, provider, and curiosity effort
elephant status # check provider and local runtime readiness
elephant wake # enter the chat TUI
elephant dashboard # open Personal Model, questions, evidence, and runtime state
For remote or cloud use, elephant dashboard --no-open prints the local URL so
you can attach through your preferred tunnel or browser setup.
Read More
README and the homepage stay product-first. The deeper system story lives here:
Contributors
Agentic Intelligence Lab