Self-hosted, always-on "personal AI OS": watches your apps, keeps a persistent memory graph, and acts autonomously within guardrails — a product, not a library for building agents.
Reach for CORE when you want an event-driven, self-hosted personal assistant that notices things on its own, remembers across sessions via a memory graph, and acts across your apps with per-action approval gates. NOT the pick if you want a framework to embed agents inside your own software (it's a product/OS, not a toolkit), nor if you need to run a multi-agent team/company with org charts and budgets — that's paperclip's lane.
Not a chatbot you open. An AI that is always on, always watching. Name it. Shape it. Connect it to everything you use. Reach it however you work. Open source, self-hosted, yours forever.
Watch CORE take a plain-text task, gather context from GitHub and memory, plan the work, run a Claude Code session, and open a PR:
What teams reach for next — and why each earns a place beside core. Ranked by curator confidence.
Local-first agentic runtime with persistent AI rooms and approval-gated memory: every memory write needs your OK; rooms, KB and artifacts are plain files on disk.
Desktop AI coworker (YC S24) that indexes email, meetings and Slack into a living backlinked knowledge graph, then acts on it — email client, browser, meeting notes, background agents, code mode.
Open-source control plane for running fleets of heterogeneous AI agents as a "company" — bring your own agent, assign goals, org charts, budgets, governance, and an audited ticket system.