OVOS-Persona

PersonaPipeline adds multi-persona management to OpenVoiceOS (OVOS). Personas are configurable virtual assistants: each one assigns its own set of solver plugins to answer queries, so you can customize how OVOS handles a conversation.

See docs/index.md for the architecture and API reference.

Quick Start

Update the core and install the plugin:

pip install -U "ovos-core>=0.5.1" ovos-persona

Install or update the plugins and skills a persona needs:

pip install -U skill-wolfie ovos-skill-wikipedia ovos-skill-wikihow skill-wordnet ovos-openai-plugin

Uninstall the ChatGPT fallback skill, since ovos-persona replaces it:
```
pip uninstall skill-ovos-fallback-chatgpt
```

Edit mycroft.conf. The "..." below is a placeholder for your existing pipeline entries, not literal text.

{
  "intents": {
      "persona": {
        "handle_fallback":  true,
        "default_persona": "Remote Llama"
      },
      "pipeline": [
          "stop_high",
          "converse",
          "ocp_high",
          "padatious_high",
          "adapt_high",
          "ovos-persona-pipeline-plugin-high",
          "ocp_medium",
          "...",
          "fallback_medium",
          "ovos-persona-pipeline-plugin-low",
          "fallback_low"
    ]
  }
}

Restart OVOS.
Check the logs to confirm the persona loaded without errors:
```
cat ~/.local/state/mycroft/skills.log | grep persona
```
Read the Persona Intents section for the voice commands.

Features

Multiple personas: manage a list of personas, each with its own solver plugins.
Dynamic switching: activate a different persona at any time.
Per-session state: the active persona and conversation memory are tracked per session, so concurrent conversations stay isolated.
Short-term memory: a default short-term memory ships with ovos-persona and is always available. Swap it for any opm.agents.memory plugin through the memory_module config key. See docs/memory.md.
Conversational: personas can handle utterances directly, without a matching skill.
Personalize: create a persona with a simple .json file. See docs/defining-personas.md.

Installation

pip install ovos-persona

Persona Intents

The persona service supports voice intents for managing persona interactions: listing personas, checking the active persona, activating a persona, asking a persona a single question, and stopping the conversation. Each intent corresponds to a messagebus event.

See the OVOS technical manual: Persona Pipeline for the full list of example utterances and bus events.

Pipeline Configuration

Where you place "ovos-persona-pipeline-plugin-high" in the pipeline decides whether the active persona gets full control of an utterance, or only handles it after high-confidence skills fail to match. "ovos-persona-pipeline-plugin-low" handles utterances as a fallback even when no persona is explicitly active, replacing OpenVoiceOS/ovos-skill-fallback-chatgpt.

See the OVOS technical manual: Persona Pipeline for the pipeline configuration strategies and example mycroft.conf snippets.

Creating a Persona

Personas are configured with JSON files. A persona can come from:

a plugin (for example, the OpenVoiceOS/ovos-openai-plugin), or
a user-defined JSON file in ~/.config/ovos_persona.

Personas rely on solver plugins, which try to answer a query in sequence until one succeeds.

Example: a persona using a local OpenAI-compatible server. Save this as ~/.config/ovos_persona/llm.json:

{
  "name": "My Local LLM",
  "handlers": [
    "ovos-solver-openai-plugin"
  ],
  "ovos-solver-openai-plugin": {
    "api_url": "https://llama.smartgic.io/v1",
    "key": "sk-xxxx",
    "system_prompt": "helpful, creative, clever, and very friendly."
  }
}

A persona does not need an LLM. Simpler solvers work too, even without a GPU.

Example: OldSchoolBot, a persona built from non-LLM solvers.

{
  "name": "OldSchoolBot",
  "handlers": [
    "ovos-solver-wikipedia-plugin",
    "ovos-solver-ddg-plugin",
    "ovos-solver-plugin-wolfram-alpha",
    "ovos-solver-wordnet-plugin",
    "ovos-solver-rivescript-plugin",
    "ovos-solver-failure-plugin"
  ],
  "ovos-solver-plugin-wolfram-alpha": {"appid": "Y7353-xxxxxx"}
}

Behavior:

Searches online sources such as Wikipedia and Wolfram Alpha.
Falls back to offline word lookups through WordNet.
Uses a local chatbot (RiveScript) for chitchat.
The "failure" solver catches errors so the persona always returns a response.

HiveMind Integration

This project includes a native hivemind-plugin-manager integration for interoperability with the HiveMind ecosystem.

Agent protocol: hivemind-persona-agent-plugin lets HiveMind satellites connect directly to a persona. See docs/hivemind.md.

OpenVoiceOS/ovos-persona-server — standalone server for persona-based conversations.
TigreGotico/ovos-persona-marketplace — a marketplace for sharing persona configurations.
JarbasHiveMind/hivemind-persona-agent-plugin — HiveMind agent protocol plugin for ovos-persona.
OpenVoiceOS/ovos-openai-plugin — OpenAI-compatible solver plugin.

Contributing

Found a bug or have an idea? Open an issue or submit a pull request.

Credits

Developed by TigreGótico for OpenVoiceOS.

This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429.

Development Status
- 4 - Beta
Intended Audience
- Developers
License
- OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
Programming Language
- Python :: 3

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