aura

A cognitive architecture that runs on your own machine.

Aura is a local AI research project that runs entirely on your Mac. It explores how to build an AI agent that can think continuously, remember things long-term, govern its own behavior with auditable receipts, steer its own emotional tone during text generation, and keep itself running reliably over time.

Aura is not proof of consciousness, life, or personhood. Nothing here settles those questions. Some file and module names sound like they might — they're named after the mechanisms they implement, not achievements they've proven.

The actual claim is narrower and testable: Aura's internal state measurably affects what it generates, what it remembers, what tools it's allowed to use, what tasks it picks up on its own, and how it repairs itself — through code paths that leave audit trails you can inspect.

That's a smaller claim than the vocabulary suggests. It's also one you can verify.