AI's memory. On your machine, under your control EXXETA released exxperts, a local-first agentic runtime that gives users persistent AI rooms with approval-gated memory, knowledge bases, and artifacts, all stored as plain files on the user's disk. The tool runs locally without telemetry and offers both a web app and a CLI/TUI interface, positioning itself as a governed alternative to chat-based AI frontends. exxperts gives you persistent AI rooms with governed, approval-gated memory: agents that remember you and your work across sessions, with every memory write approved by you. Everything runs and stays local: rooms, memory, knowledge base, artifacts, and usage data are files on your disk. Memory you govern. Rooms remember decisions, preferences, and context across sessions, but every memory write goes through an approval gate you control. No silent profile-building. Local-first, verifiably. Rooms, memories, knowledge base, artifacts, and token usage live as plain files under ~/.exxperts . You can read, back up, or delete all of it. There is no telemetry: the only network traffic is what you use, meaning calls to your model provider, web research if you enable it, and any MCP connectors you add. An agentic runtime, not a chat wrapper. Rooms use curated tools knowledge base, artifacts, local web research, MCP connectors under a permission model scoped to each surface. Rooms never get an unrestricted shell. One product, two surfaces. The web app and the CLI/TUI share the same rooms, memory, and credential store; switch between them freely. If you know Open WebUI https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui or AnythingLLM https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm : those are excellent local chat/RAG frontends. exxperts is a different shape: a local agentic runtime focused on persistent, governed memory and auditable agent behaviour, not chat over your documents. | Surface | Launch | What you get | |---|---|---| Web app | exxperts web | Rooms with memory, KB, artifacts, web research, approvals, and the wallet. | CLI / TUI | exxperts cli | The same rooms in your terminal, run from the folder you want as the workspace. | The web app is the full product: AI setup, memory review and approvals, the wallet, connectors, and skills all live there. The CLI/TUI focuses on the rooms themselves. Bare exxperts opens a picker for the two surfaces web app recommended . Product/app state stays local under ~/.exxperts/app %USERPROFILE%\.exxperts on Windows ; embedded runtime provider/auth/model/session state lives under ~/.exxperts/agent . - Local web workspace with landing page, persistent rooms, approvals, and wallet. - Rooms-only CLI/TUI sharing the same room runtime and governance. - User-created skills from the web UI. - Approval-gated memory, KB writes, and Markdown/HTML artifacts. - Markdown/Obsidian KB tools and local web search. - MCP connectors on web and CLI through a single proxy tool. Bring your own servers; see . docs/mcp.md - Local token/cost wallet from ~/.exxperts/app/usage.jsonl . Prerequisites: Node.js https://nodejs.org 20.6+ and npm. On Windows, apply the two Git settings from the Windows quickstart before cloning. git clone https://github.com/EXXETA/exxperts.git cd exxperts npm install npm run install:global builds, packs, and installs the exxperts commands all platforms Two things to expect: npm install also fetches headless Chromium ~150 MB, one-time; skip it with EXXETA SKIP BROWSER INSTALL=1 npm install , and install:global builds the whole app before installing @exxeta/exxperts-app into your global npm prefix, so give it a few minutes. Then, from any shell: exxperts web the web app: rooms, memory, wallet current folder does not matter cd /path/to/your/project exxperts cli the same rooms in your terminal, with this folder as the workspace First run: open AI setup in the web app and sign in to your provider Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions sign in with one click; API keys and OpenAI-compatible gateways also work; see Model/provider setup modelprovider-setup . Something not working? npm run doctor from the repo root checks every layer and prints the fix. New here? docs/quickstart.md /EXXETA/exxperts/blob/main/docs/quickstart.md walks the whole path in about five minutes: install, connect your AI, first room, first memory. For an orientation on what the product is and how the pieces fit, read . /EXXETA/exxperts/blob/main/docs/how-exxperts-works.md docs/how-exxperts-works.md Same on every platform, from the repo folder: git pull npm install in case dependencies changed npm run install:global rebuilds and reinstalls the global commands The global exxperts commands then run the new version. If anything misbehaves after an update, or anytime, run npm run doctor from the repo folder. Developing from the clone instead of the global install? Update with git pull && npm install && npm run build . Windows is supported for both the web app and the CLI/TUI. Requirements: Git for Windows ≥ 2.40 https://gitforwindows.org https://gitforwindows.org . Git Bash is required : the agent's shell tool runs commands through bash.exe , which is discovered automatically in the standard Git for Windows install location C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe or on PATH . Node.js 20.6+ LTS recommended and npm https://nodejs.org https://nodejs.org . Windows Terminal recommended for the CLI/TUI legacy conhost is untested . One-time Git settings before cloning long paths matter because node modules trees exceed the 260-character MAX PATH : git config --global core.longpaths true git config --global core.autocrlf false the repo's .gitattributes manages line endings Then install from PowerShell or Git Bash, with the same commands as everywhere else: git clone https://github.com/EXXETA/exxperts.git cd exxperts npm install npm run install:global And run from any shell: exxperts web web app exxperts cli CLI/TUI, run from the folder you want as workspace Web search works on Windows too: install Docker Desktop, then run node scripts\searxng.mjs start once from any shell. See docs/web-search.md /EXXETA/exxperts/blob/main/docs/web-search.md . Developing from the clone without a global install? Use the shell-independent forms: node bin\exxperts-web.cjs , node bin\exxperts-cli.cjs , and node scripts\exxeta-web.mjs dev web app with server + Vite UI . The bash launchers in scripts/ also work from Git Bash. Everything runs locally. Full functionality is four layers; only the first is required: Core app : Node.js 20.6+ and npm, then the quick-start steps above. Headless Chromium ~150 MB, one-time : downloaded automatically during npm install ; lets rooms visually review the HTML decks they author and read JavaScript-rendered pages. If the download couldn't run, enable it later with npx playwright install chromium or skip it during install with EXXETA SKIP BROWSER INSTALL=1 npm install . Web search : a container engine plus a one-time setup command. See Web search optional web-search-optional . Model authentication : provider sign-in or API keys. See Model/provider setup modelprovider-setup . Verify any setup with npm run doctor from the repo root: it checks all of the above, plus MCP config and that outbound web fetches decode cleanly corporate TLS-inspection proxies can corrupt responses , and prints the fix for anything missing. install:global wraps npm run build && npm pack && npm install -g