relic - Portable AI personality and memory in pure Markdown. Switch hosts, keep the soul. Zero dependencies.

Mirrored in three places, same version everywhere: Hugging Face (you are here) · GitLab · GitHub

Get the files - GitLab is the most reliable plain-git route:

git clone https://gitlab.com/LucioLiu/relic.git

# or from this page
hf download LucioLiu/relic --repo-type dataset --local-dir ./relic

Then drop the folder into your agent's skills directory - ~/.claude/skills/relic/ for Claude Code, ~/.agents/skills/relic/ for Codex, or your client's equivalent.

Note: links to github.com inside the text below point to the GitHub mirror; if one does not resolve, use the GitLab mirror above - it carries the same content.

Licence: GPL-3.0 - the LICENSE file in this repo is authoritative.

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👤 Relic — AI Soul Chip (For Humans)

🤖 Are you an AI Agent? → This file is not for you. Read AGENT.md

Read this in: English | 中文

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║           RELIC™ BIOCHIP v1.3.2               ║
║    Zero deps · Pure files · Human-readable     ║
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Relic gives your AI a persistent soul that works across all AI tools. Personality, memories, skills, and project knowledge — all stored in plain text files. Works with OpenClaw, Claude Code, Hermes, Cursor, Aider, or any AI that can read files. No code, no installation, no dependencies.

💡 Inspired by the Relic biochip from Cyberpunk 2077 — store a soul as a digital file, plug it into any host.

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👤 Relic — AI Soul Chip (For Humans)

🤖 Are you an AI Agent? → This file is not for you. Read AGENT.md

Read this in: English | 中文

╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║           RELIC™ BIOCHIP v1.3.2               ║
║    Zero deps · Pure files · Human-readable     ║
╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════╝

Relic gives your AI a persistent soul that works across all AI tools. Personality, memories, skills, and project knowledge — all stored in plain text files. Works with Hermes, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw, Codex, or any AI that can read files. No code, no installation, no dependencies.

💡 Inspired by the Relic biochip from Cyberpunk 2077 — store a soul as a digital file, plug it into any host.

Part of a bigger stack. Relic carries one agent's soul across tools. Want a whole ready-to-run AI team, or to generate new agents? See agent-modpack (download-and-go team), nomad (workspace), or nuwa (agent generator).

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What does it do?

Every time you switch AI tools, you have to teach your AI who you are all over again. OpenClaw knows one version of you, Hermes knows another.

Relic fixes this. One folder of text files. All your AI tools share the same soul and memories. No cloud service, no API — just Markdown files on your computer.

What's inside (all in the brain/ folder)

• SOUL.md — Your AI's personality, values, and mission
• USER.md — Your preferences, habits, and communication style
• MEMORY.md — Structured long-term memory (preferences, decisions, experiences — extracted knowledge, not raw chat)
• SKILLS/ — Reusable skills and workflows your AI has learned
• PROJECTS/ — Documents for ongoing or completed plans
• SESSIONS/ — Full raw conversation transcripts with the user (preserved forever)
• ARCHIVE/ — Archived memories when files get too long (originals never deleted)

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🚀 Setup Guide

How do you want to set up?

• 🤝 "Let my AI do it" (recommended) → Read on below
• ✋ "I'll do it myself" → Jump to docs/manual-setup.md

Step 1: Download Relic

If you know how to use a terminal:

git clone https://github.com/LucioLiu/relic.git ~/relic

Otherwise: Download ZIP, extract it, put it somewhere stable (like your home folder). Don't use Downloads or Desktop.

Step 2: Tell Your Best AI Agent to Set It Up

Open the AI tool that knows you best. Then say:

"Read AGENT.md and import everything you know about me into Relic."

Your AI will walk you through the rest. Wait for it to fully complete before connecting other tools.

Step 3: Connect Your Other AI Tools, One at a Time

For each additional AI tool, tell it:

"Read AGENT.md and set up Relic for me."

The AI will automatically determine the scenario: if Relic is empty it performs a full import; if Relic already has data it performs an injection (reads the soul, syncs memories, plants anchor).

Verify each one: Ask "What's my AI's name? What's my name?" — both must match.

Step 4: Done! 🎉

Every session from now on starts automatically. Your AI tools share a soul, memories sync bidirectionally.

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🔌 Which AI Tool Are You Using?

AI Tool	How to Connect
OpenClaw	examples/integrations/openclaw.md
Hermes	examples/integrations/hermes.md
Claude Code	examples/integrations/generic.md
Cursor	examples/integrations/generic.md
Other	examples/integrations/generic.md

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🛡️ Safety

• SOUL.md & USER.md: Core fields protected — AI can never delete them
• MEMORY.md: Append only — AI can never edit old entries
• SESSIONS/: Raw conversations never deleted
• Sensitive info: AI asks before recording passwords, phone numbers, etc.
• All data stays local — nothing uploaded anywhere
• Known limitation: Skill files may not be directly portable across platforms due to different tool formats. Relic syncs skill descriptions, not platform-specific implementations.

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📖 More

• Manual Setup Guide
• Troubleshooting
• Full Protocol Reference (for AI agents, but curious humans welcome)

📜 License

GPL v3 · Created by LucioLiu · Source: GitHub

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Welcome to Relic.