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| title: Daimon | |
| colorFrom: yellow | |
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| sdk: docker | |
| app_port: 7860 | |
| pinned: true | |
| license: mit | |
| short_description: Governed self-evolving AI persona, fully local on a SLM. | |
| tags: | |
| - build-small-hackathon | |
| - track:wood | |
| - lane:openbmb | |
| - lane:codex | |
| - achievement:tiny-titan | |
| - achievement:offgrid | |
| - achievement:off-brand | |
| - achievement:best-agent | |
| # Daimon | |
| [](https://github.com/davidquicast/daimon) [](https://huggingface.co/spaces/davidquicast/daimon) [](https://huggingface.co/spaces/build-small-hackathon/daimon) | |
| **A governed, self-evolving AI persona that runs fully local on a small model.** | |
| > Can SLMs become a dedicated persona layer for AI apps? Rather than static prompts, Daimon explores whether persona state, evolution, and constraints can operate independently, while other models focus on reasoning and tasks. | |
| Daimon is an experimental implementation of the [personaxis](https://github.com/personaxis/persona.md) 10-layer persona architecture, running on **MiniCPM5-1B-Q4_K_M via llama.cpp**, under 1B parameters, no cloud. | |
| Every message, MiniCPM appraises the conversation and proposes small changes to its personality and mood. A governance gate clamps, audits, or rejects each change live. You watch the vector move, `PERSONA.md` rewrite itself, and the model refuse to touch its own identity. | |
| ``` | |
| chat -> appraisal (JSON constrained by grammar) -> deterministic mapping | |
| -> governance + clamp -> recompile PERSONA.md -> memory | |
| ``` | |
| ### How the persona works | |
| `personaxis.md` is the **architecture spec**: a structured definition of the persona across 10 governed layers. It declares who Daimon is, what it values, how it reasons, and what it cannot change about itself. | |
| `PERSONA.md` is the **live system prompt**: compiled from that spec after every interaction. It is what the model actually reads. When the governance engine accepts a change, it rewrites `PERSONA.md` so the next message already talks to a slightly different Daimon. | |
| **The 10 personaxis layers:** | |
| 1. Identity | |
| 2. Character | |
| 3. Personality | |
| 4. Values & Drives | |
| 5. Affect | |
| 6. Cognition | |
| 7. Memory | |
| 8. Metacognition | |
| 9. Reflexive Self-Regulation | |
| 10. Persona | |
| --- | |
| ## Demo | |
| <video src="assets/demo.mp4" controls width="100%"></video> | |
| > Posted on X: [x.com/davidquicast/status/2066722575577706745](https://x.com/davidquicast/status/2066722575577706745) | |
| --- | |
| ## Architecture | |
| ``` | |
| .personaxis/ spec: project baseline + live "daimon" persona | |
| engine/ living loop (appraise → map → govern → recompile → memory) | |
| model/ small-model serving (llama.cpp + MiniCPM GGUF) | |
| app/ single gr.Blocks UI at "/" | |
| AGENTS.md project guidance | |
| PERSONA.md compiled behavioral baseline | |
| ``` | |
| --- | |
| ## Run locally | |
| ```bash | |
| # serve the model | |
| bash model/serve.sh | |
| # run the app | |
| uvicorn app.server:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 7860 | |
| ``` | |
| Open `http://localhost:7860/`. No cloud APIs required. | |
| `/api/*` (state, audit, persona, envelopes, governance demo) works without the model server. | |
| --- | |
| ## License | |
| MIT. The specification belongs to the community. Personaxis builds the tooling and platform around it. | |
| See [personaxis/persona.md](https://github.com/personaxis/persona.md) for the spec. | |