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Elephant Agent CLI-first persistent agent runtime.

Elephant Agent

Elephants never forget.
Understanding first · Correctable Personal Model · Curiosity at your pace.

Website · Blog · Paper

Why an Elephant?

The old saying is close to true, but the beautiful part is not storage. Elephants remember with meaning.

They recognize companions by sight and smell, remember danger cues, and return to important places long after the last visit. Older matriarchs can guide a herd through hard seasons because memory has become practical judgment: who is safe, where water may be found, and which warning signs deserve attention.

That is the inspiration for Elephant Agent: memory that becomes care, context, and better judgment.

From Elephant Memory to Personal AI

Most AI still asks you to begin again. You explain the same project, the same people, the same constraints, the same decisions, and the same hard-won lessons. Longer context windows help for a while, but they do not solve the deeper problem: a personal AI should know which memories are worth carrying forward.

Elephant Agent is built around that idea. It does not try to preserve every transcript. It grows a correctable understanding of the paths, people, risks, rhythms, and decisions that should shape future help.

• It remembers less, but understands deeper.
• It picks up the right thread instead of replaying the whole past.
• It asks gently when one missing answer would change how it helps.
• It shows evidence, accepts correction, and lets silence stand.
• It becomes more yours over time because its understanding stays tied to you, not just to the current task.

One elephant is a durable companion for a line of work or life context. Many elephants form a herd.

What Elephant Agent Learns

Elephant Agent is not trying to collect a complete profile. It learns what has durable value for future help:

Lens	What it carries forward
Identity	Stable self-description, values, decision style, boundaries, and durable preferences.
World	Projects, people, tools, places, vocabulary, and relationships that shape your context.
Pulse	Current focus, active pressure, recent constraints, mood patterns, and temporary priorities.
Journey	Past experiences, lessons, failures, recovery patterns, and long-running growth.

That learning comes from four loops:

• Grounded learning from explicit remembers, corrections, and dashboard edits.
• Curiosity-driven learning from one useful question when a gap would change future help.
• Background learning from reflect agents that read Episode steps after close, idle, diary, or manual triggers.
• Skill fit learning from visible capability use while keeping durable understanding inspectable.

Curiosity, At Your Pace

At elephant init, you choose how curious your Elephant Agent should be:

Curiosity effort	What it feels like
Quiet	Elephant Agent mostly waits and asks rarely.
Balanced	Elephant Agent asks at natural pauses when the answer would help.
Active	Elephant Agent is more willing to check in and learn, while staying optional.

Every question belongs to a Personal Model lens and exists for a reason: a gap, a conflict, a stale pulse, or an adaptation that would improve future help. Questions are visible and dismissible. Silence always wins.

You stay in control

Open the dashboard to see and shape what Elephant Agent understands:

• You — active Identity, World, Pulse, and Journey claims.
• Why — evidence behind a claim, shown when you inspect it.
• Questions — open, asked, answered, and dismissed curiosity prompts.
• Evidence — the trail behind understanding, not hidden prompt truth.

You can correct or forget claims, answer or dismiss questions, and keep Elephant Agent’s understanding aligned with who you are now.

Quickstart

Install Elephant Agent, create your first named elephant, then come back through wake whenever you want to continue.

Install

curl -fsSL https://elephant.agentic-in.ai/install.sh | bash

First run

elephant init        # choose identity, provider, and curiosity effort
elephant herd new    # create another named elephant when you need one
elephant wake        # enter the chat TUI
elephant dashboard   # open You, Questions, and Evidence

How It Deepens

Day 1	Week 1	Month 1	Month 3
It knows your first anchors	It knows the project and people in view	It asks better questions and explains why	It has grown into your rhythms, with evidence you can inspect

Paper and blog

README and the homepage stay product-first. The deeper system story lives here:

• Read the paper →
• Read the blog →

Contributors

Agentic Intelligence Lab