takobot 0.1.4

Takobot: your highly autonomous octopus friend

takobot

Tako is your highly autonomous octopus friend built in Python with a docs-first memory system and Type 1 / Type 2 thinking. The direction is informed by modern productivity research and stays web3-native via XMTP and Ethereum (with Farcaster support planned). Today, this repo includes:

• A first-class interactive terminal app main loop (tako) with transcript, status bar, panels, and input box
• Startup health checks (instance shape, lock, resource probes) before entering the main loop
• Inference-provider discovery for Codex / Claude / Gemini CLIs with key-source detection
• Inference execution gate so first model call starts on the first interactive chat turn
• A background XMTP runtime with stream retries + polling fallback
• Event-log driven cognition: heartbeat + Type 1 triage + Type 2 escalation for serious signals
• XMTP control-channel handling with command router (help, status, doctor, update, web, run, reimprint) plus plain-text chat replies
• Built-in operator tools for webpage reads (web <url>) and local shell commands (run <command>)
• TUI activity feed (inference/tool/runtime events), clipboard copy actions, and an animated leveling ASCII octopus panel
• Productivity engine v1: GTD + PARA folders (tasks/, projects/, areas/, resources/, archives/), daily outcomes, weekly review, progressive summaries
• Docs-first repo contract (SOUL.md, VISION.md, MEMORY.md, ONBOARDING.md)

Docs

• Website: https://tako.bot (or index.html in this repo)
• Features: FEATURES.md
• Agent notes / lessons learned: AGENTS.md

Quickstart

Bootstrap a new workspace in an empty directory, then launch Tako's interactive terminal app:

mkdir tako-workspace
cd tako-workspace
curl -fsSL https://tako.bot/setup.sh | bash

If no interactive TTY is available, bootstrap falls back to command-line daemon mode (.venv/bin/tako run) instead of exiting.

Next runs:

.venv/bin/tako

Bootstrap refuses to run in a non-empty directory unless it already looks like a Tako workspace (has SOUL.md, AGENTS.md, MEMORY.md, tako.toml).

Pairing flow:

• tako always starts the interactive terminal app first.
• During onboarding, Tako asks for XMTP setup ASAP (in-chat):
  • yes: outbound DM pairing (.eth or 0x...) and assumes the recipient is ready
  • no: continue onboarding locally and allow later pairing from terminal
• Identity/purpose/routine prompts are delayed until inference has actually run (or can be started manually with setup).
• Identity naming accepts freeform input and uses inference to extract a clean name (for example, “your name can be SILLYTAKO”).
• After pairing, XMTP becomes the primary control plane for identity/config/tools/routines (help, status, doctor, update, web, run, reimprint).

Productivity (GTD + PARA):

• morning sets today’s 3 outcomes (stored in memory/dailies/YYYY-MM-DD.md).
• task <title> creates a committed task file under tasks/.
• tasks lists open tasks (filters: project, area, due).
• done <task-id> completes a task.
• compress writes a progressive summary block into today’s daily log.
• weekly runs a weekly review report.
• promote <note> appends an operator-approved durable note into MEMORY.md.

Architecture (minimal)

Committed (git-tracked):

• SOUL.md, MEMORY.md, ONBOARDING.md, AGENTS.md, tako.toml
• FEATURES.md (feature tracker)
• memory/dailies/YYYY-MM-DD.md (daily logs)
• memory/people/, memory/places/, memory/things/ (world notes)
• tasks/, projects/, areas/, resources/, archives/ (execution structure)
• tools/ (workspace tools; installed but disabled by default)
• skills/ (workspace skills; installed but disabled by default)

Runtime-only (ignored):

• .tako/keys.json (XMTP wallet key + DB encryption key; unencrypted, file perms only)
• .tako/operator.json (operator imprint metadata)
• .tako/xmtp-db/ (local XMTP DB)
• .tako/state/** (runtime state: heartbeat/cognition/etc)
• .tako/quarantine/** (download quarantine for skills/tools)
• .venv/ (local virtualenv with the engine installed)

What happens on first run

• Creates a local Python virtual environment in .venv/.
• Attempts to install the engine with pip install takobot (PyPI). If that fails, it clones source into .tako/tmp/src/ and installs from there.
• Materializes the workspace from engine templates (tako_bot/templates/**) without overwriting existing files.
• Initializes git (if available) and commits the initial workspace.
• Generates a local key file at .tako/keys.json with a wallet key and DB encryption key (unencrypted; protected by file permissions).
• Creates a local XMTP database at .tako/xmtp-db/.
• Launches the interactive terminal app main loop (tako, default).
• Runs a startup health check to classify instance context (brand-new vs established), verify lock/safety, and inspect local resources.
• Detects available inference CLIs (codex, claude, gemini) and key/auth sources, then persists runtime metadata to .tako/state/inference.json.
• Runs onboarding as an explicit state machine inside the app, starting with XMTP channel setup.
• Shows an activity panel in the TUI so you can see inference/tool/runtime actions as they happen.
• Starts heartbeat + event-log ingestion and continuously applies Type 1 triage; serious events trigger Type 2 tasks with depth-based handling.
• Type 2 escalation uses discovered inference providers with fallback across ready CLIs after the first interactive chat turn, then falls back to heuristic guidance if inference calls fail.
• If paired, starts background XMTP runtime and keeps terminal as local cockpit with plain-text chat still available.

Configuration

There is no user-facing configuration via environment variables or CLI flags.

Workspace configuration lives in tako.toml (no secrets).

Any change that affects identity/config/tools/sensors/routines must be initiated by the operator over XMTP and (when appropriate) reflected by updating repo-tracked docs (SOUL.md, MEMORY.md, etc).

Developer utilities (optional)

• Local checks: .venv/bin/tako doctor
• One-off DM send: .venv/bin/tako hi --to <xmtp_address_or_ens> [--message ...]
• Direct daemon (dev): .venv/bin/tako run

Notes

• Workspaces are git-first, but git is optional. If git is missing, Tako runs and warns that versioning is disabled.
• The daemon now retries XMTP stream subscriptions with backoff when transient group/identity stream errors occur.
• When stream instability persists, the daemon falls back to polling message history and retries stream mode after polling stabilizes.
• XMTP client initialization disables history sync by default for compatibility.
• Runtime event log lives at .tako/state/events.jsonl and is consumed by the Type 1/Type 2 cognition pipeline.
• Runtime inference metadata lives at .tako/state/inference.json (no raw secrets written by Tako).
• The bootstrap launcher rebinds stdin to /dev/tty for app mode, so curl ... | bash can still start an interactive TUI.
• XMTP support is installed with takobot by default; if an existing environment is missing it, run pip install --upgrade takobot xmtp (native build tooling such as Rust may be required).