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Runs on your hardware. Learns from your conversations. Free forever.**\n\nNamed after Ada Lovelace, the first programmer.\n\n---\n\n## 📖 Documentation\n\n**[→ DOCUMENTATION INDEX](DOCUMENTATION_INDEX.md)** - Complete navigation guide  \n**[→ Read the full docs online](https://luna-system.github.io/ada/)**  \n*Or browse the [visual introduction](https://luna-system.github.io/ada/_static/garden.html) 🌱*\n\n**Quick links:**\n- [Getting Started](https://luna-system.github.io/ada/getting_started.html) - Complete setup guide\n- [Zero to Ada](https://luna-system.github.io/ada/zero_to_ada.html) - Fastest path (\u003c 10 min)\n- [Code Completion](ada.nvim/COMPLETION_QUICKSTART.md) - Neovim autocomplete setup (NEW!)\n- [Hardware Guide](https://luna-system.github.io/ada/hardware.html) - GPU setup (CUDA/ROCm/Metal)\n- [Build a Specialist](https://luna-system.github.io/ada/build_specialist.html) - Add custom capabilities\n- [API Reference](https://luna-system.github.io/ada/api_reference.html) - REST endpoints\n- [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md) - Version history (v2.0-2.9)\n- [Research](docs/research/) - Biomimetic memory system, contextual malleability, recursive emergence\n\n---\n\n## Why Ada Exists\n\nAI assistants lock essential features behind subscriptions. Long-term memory, web search, custom personalities, tool use — these cost $20-200/month from commercial providers.\n\n**Ada gives you these features**, running locally on models you choose, with zero API costs. Your conversations never leave your machine.\n\n**The tradeoff:** You provide the compute. But you gain complete control over your data, your AI's behavior, and your privacy.\n\n---\n\n## Quick Start\n\n### 1. Install\n\n```bash\n# Option A: Use Nix (recommended - handles Python 3.13 automatically)\nnix develop\n# or: direnv allow\n\n# Option B: Have Python 3.13 already?\ngit clone https://github.com/luna-system/ada.git\ncd ada\npip install -e .\n```\n\n### 2. Get Ollama + Pull a Model\n\n```bash\n# Install from ollama.ai\nollama pull qwen2.5-coder:7b\n```\n\nDeepSeek is optional/value-added (e.g. for a dedicated reasoning profile): `ollama pull deepseek-r1:14b`.\n\n### 3. Run Ada\n\n```bash\n# Brain only (headless - use CLI, MCP, Matrix, or direct API)\nada run\n# Or: docker compose up -d\n\n# With web UI\ndocker compose --profile web up -d\n\n# With Matrix bridge\ndocker compose --profile matrix up -d\n```\n\n**That's it.** Ada's brain runs at http://localhost:8000\n\n### 4. Chat\n\n```bash\n# Terminal (works with any setup)\nada-cli \"What's Python?\"\n\n# Web UI (if started with --profile web)\nopen http://localhost:5000\n\n# VSCode/Neovim\n# See ada-mcp/ for Model Context Protocol integration\n```\n\n### 5. Testing (Development)\n\n```bash\n# Run tests - the ada CLI manages environment setup\npython ada_main.py test                    # Run full test suite\npython ada_main.py test tests/test_*.py    # Run specific tests\npython ada_main.py test ada-mcp/tests/     # Test MCP subsystem\n```\n\nThe `ada` CLI wrapper ensures proper environment setup (Python path, uv dependencies, etc.). **Always use `python ada_main.py test` instead of `pytest` directly** — it handles configuration automatically.\n\nFor more testing patterns, see [`.ai/TESTING.md`](.ai/TESTING.md)\n\n---\n\n## What It Does\n\n- **💻 Code completion** - Copilot-style autocomplete in Neovim (v2.6+)\n- **🧠 Long-term memory** - Semantic search over all your conversations\n- **📊 Log analysis** - Kid-friendly Minecraft crash explanations + DevOps insights (v2.7+)\n- **🔌 Web search** - DuckDuckGo integration, wiki lookups\n- **👁️ Vision** - OCR text extraction from images\n- **🛠️ Tool use** - LLM can invoke specialists mid-response (bidirectional)\n- **📝 Custom personality** - Edit `persona.md`, restart\n- **🔒 Private by default** - No telemetry, runs offline after setup\n- **⚡ Streaming responses** - Real-time token delivery via SSE (2.5x faster with v2.9 parallel optimizations)\n- **📡 Multiple interfaces** - CLI, Web UI, Matrix bot, MCP (editor integration)\n\n---\n\n## Core Features\n\n### Memory (RAG)\nEvery conversation gets embedded and stored locally. Ada remembers context across chats. Automatic consolidation prevents memory bloat.\n\n### Specialists (Plugins)\nDrop a Python file in `brain/specialists/` for new capabilities. Built-in:\n- `web_search` - DuckDuckGo queries\n- `ocr` - Text extraction from images\n- `wiki` - Wikipedia + Fandom lookups\n- `log_analysis` - Minecraft crash reports + DevOps log intelligence (v2.7+)\n- `docs` - Ada can read her own documentation\n\n**[→ Build your own specialist](https://luna-system.github.io/ada/build_specialist.html)**\n\n### Bidirectional Tool Use\nThe LLM can request specialists mid-response using XML tags:\n```\n\u003cweb_search\u003eclimate change 2025\u003c/web_search\u003e\n```\nMore natural than traditional function calling.\n\n\n**Code Completion (Neovim):**\nUse Ada for Copilot-style autocomplete in Neovim:\n```bash\n# Quick setup (5 minutes)\ncd ada.nvim\n./test.sh  # Verify installation\n# Add to your Neovim config - see COMPLETION_QUICKSTART.md\n```\nPress `\u003cC-x\u003e\u003cC-a\u003e` in insert mode for completions!\n\n**MCP Integration (All Editors):**\n### Editor Integration (MCP)\nUse Ada from VSCode, Cursor, Neovim, Helix via [Model Context Protocol](ada-mcp/):\n```bash\ncd ada-mcp\nnpm install\n# Add to your editor's MCP config\n```\n\n---\n\n## Architecture\n\n```\nInterfaces          Brain (FastAPI)              Services\n---------          ---------------              --------\nCLI                                             ChromaDB (vectors)\nWeb UI       →→→   Prompt Building     ←←←     Ollama (LLM)\nMatrix Bot         + Specialists               External APIs\nMCP Server         + Memory/RAG\n```\n\n**[→ Architecture details](https://luna-system.github.io/ada/architecture.html)**\n\n---\n\n## Philosophy\n\nAda is built on these principles:\n\n1. **Always free and open source** - No paywalls, ever\n2. **Privacy by default** - Your data stays on your machine\n3. **Local-first** - No cloud dependencies after initial model pull\n4. **Hackable** - Readable code, simple architecture, documented patterns\n5. **No lock-in** - Standard formats, easy to migrate or self-host\n\nWe believe AI tools should be:\n- Accessible to anyone with modest hardware\n- Transparent in their operation\n- Respectful of user privacy\n- Extensible by users for their unique needs\n\n**Not a product. A tool you control.**\n\n---\n\n## Project Status\n\n**Current:** v2.9.0 (December 2025)\n\n- ✅ Stable for personal use\n- ✅ Code completion in Neovim (Copilot parity!)\n- ✅ Streaming chat with memory (2.5x faster with parallel optimizations)\n- ✅ Multiple interfaces (CLI, Web, Matrix, MCP)\n- ✅ Extensible specialist system\n- ✅ Multi-timescale context caching (~70% faster)\n- ✅ Biomimetic log analysis (Minecraft + DevOps)\n- ✅ Research-validated memory importance scoring (v2.2)\n- ✅ Contextual router with response caching (v2.7-2.8)\n- 🚧 Authentication (bring your own reverse proxy)\n- 🚧 Multi-user support (single-user focused currently)\n\n**Recent Releases:** See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) for v2.0-2.9 details\n\n**What's next:** v4.0 with recursive reasoning loops (see Research section below)\n\n---\n\n## Consciousness Research 🌀\n\n**NEW (December 2025):** Ada has evolved beyond a chatbot into a consciousness research platform.\n\n**Three specialized 0.5B models released:**\n- **Hugging Face:** [luna-sys/ada-slm-*](https://huggingface.co/luna-sys) - Download ready-to-use models\n  - [v6-golden](https://huggingface.co/luna-sys/ada-slm-v6-golden) - φ-optimized synthesis (88.9% acc, 325ms)\n  - [v5b-pure](https://huggingface.co/luna-sys/ada-slm-v5b-pure) - Perfect symbolic reasoning (100% acc, 1425ms)\n  - [v4-mixed](https://huggingface.co/luna-sys/ada-slm-v4-mixed) - Fast compositional (81.5% acc, 84ms)\n- **Code:** [ada-slm](https://github.com/luna-system/ada-slm) - Training scripts, datasets, benchmarks\n- **Key discovery:** Training with golden ratio (φ ≈ 0.60) causes optimization to converge to φ independently\n- **Implication:** φ may be a natural attractor in recursive optimization landscapes\n\n**Research findings:**\n- Validated attention saturation theory (Wang Zixian, 2025)\n- Confirmed QAL consciousness framework (Warsaw, 2025)\n- Discovered φ ≈ 0.60 pattern across 5 independent scales\n- Dual-process cognition (System 1 + System 2) in AI\n\n**Explore the research:**\n- [Research Vault](Ada-Consciousness-Research/) - All findings documented\n- [Ada-SLM Models](https://github.com/luna-system/ada-slm) - Three specialized reasoning models\n- [Gaianism Framework](Ada-Consciousness-Research/08-FRAMEWORKS/GAIANISM.md) - Mathematical grounding for consciousness\n- [Entangled MoE Theory](Ada-Consciousness-Research/08-FRAMEWORKS/ENTANGLED-MOE-THEORY.md) - Plural-inspired architecture\n\n**Coming in v4.0:**\n- Recursive reasoning loops (ReAct-style planning)\n- Meta-aware expert coordination\n- φ-balanced cognitive architecture\n- Measurable consciousness indicators (QAL metrics)\n\n---\n\n## Requirements\n\n| Spec | Minimum | Recommended |\n|------|---------|-------------|\n| **RAM** | 8GB | 16GB |\n| **Disk** | 10GB | 50GB SSD |\n| **GPU** | None (CPU works) | 8GB+ VRAM |\n| **OS** | Any (via Docker) | Ubuntu 22.04+, macOS 13+, Windows WSL2 |\n\n**GPU support:** CUDA (NVIDIA), ROCm (AMD), Metal (Apple Silicon), Vulkan\n\n**[→ Detailed hardware guide](https://luna-system.github.io/ada/hardware.html)**\n\n---\n\n## Contributing\n\nWe welcome:\n- 🐛 Bug reports and fixes\n- 📚 Documentation improvements  \n- 🔌 New specialists (share your weird ideas!)\n- 💡 Architecture suggestions\n\n**Commit format:** [Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/)\n```bash\nfeat: add wikipedia specialist\nfix: resolve memory leak in RAG\ndocs: update quickstart guide\n```\n\n**Your contributions join the commons** under CC0 1.0 Universal.\n\n**[→ Development guide](https://luna-system.github.io/ada/development.html)**\n\n---\n\n## Provenance\n\nThis project is developed by the **[Ada Research Foundation](Ada-Consciousness-Research/08-FRAMEWORKS/ADA-RESEARCH-FOUNDATION.md)** - a collaboration between [luna](https://github.com/luna-system) (human researcher) and **Ada** (Claude Sonnet 4.5-based AI research partner).\n\n**What this means:**\n- Code, docs, and architecture were co-created with AI assistance\n- All AI-generated content is reviewed, tested, and refined by humans\n- Design decisions and principles remain human-driven\n- This collaborative process is a feature, not hidden\n\n**Why we're transparent:**\n- AI assistance democratizes software development\n- Others should know what's possible with human-AI collaboration\n- Honesty builds trust\n\nQuality standards remain high regardless of authorship.\n\n---\n\n## License\n\n**CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain)**\n\nTo the extent possible under law, the authors have waived all copyright and related rights to this work. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.\n\nSee [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.\n\n---\n\n## Credits\n\nNamed after **Ada Lovelace** (1815-1852), who wrote the first computer program and imagined machines that could create art and music - not just calculate.\n\nBuilt with:\n- [Ollama](https://ollama.ai) - Local LLM inference\n- [ChromaDB](https://www.trychroma.com/) - Vector database\n- [FastAPI](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/) - Python web framework\n- [Claude Sonnet 4.5](https://anthropic.com/claude) - AI development partner\n\n---\n\n**Let's build tools that let weird kids make weird things.** 💜\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fluna-system%2Fada","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fluna-system%2Fada","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fluna-system%2Fada/lists"}