CIRIS is runtime governance you can audit: published ethical principles, conscience-checked actions, human deferral when uncertain, cryptographic audit trail, and bilateral consent. Fully open source — because you shouldn't have to take our word for it.
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Images, documents, Home Assistant integration — your ethical AI, on mobile
Unlike commercial AI assistants, CIRIS runs entirely on your hardware with complete transparency. Specialized agents for different needs — Sage for GDPR compliance, Datum for research, Echo for content moderation, Ally as your personal assistant, Scout for customer service. Every decision is auditable, every action is accountable.
Watch your agent's knowledge grow in real-time. Interactive SVG visualization shows how concepts connect, cluster, and evolve. Radial, force-directed, or hierarchical layouts. It's beautiful and it's yours.
Four operational modes — WORK, PLAY, SOLITUDE, DREAM — each with different learning behaviors. Behavioral drift monitoring ensures the agent stays aligned as its knowledge grows. Configurable thresholds trigger recalibration.
Truth-telling becomes computationally cheaper over time. Lies become exponentially harder — NP-hard consistency problems against a growing ledger of signed rationales. The math favors honesty.
Auto-detects sensitive information — API keys, passwords, personal data. AES-256-GCM encryption. The agent self-configures new patterns as it learns what you consider private.
Intelligent message prioritization with spam detection and user trust tracking. The agent learns who matters and what's noise. Your attention is protected.
Artificial Interaction Reminders maintain clarity. After extended sessions or high message counts, the agent reminds users it's software. Configurable thresholds. Transparency by default.
Six reasoning events streamed live via SSE as the agent processes each thought. Watch the H3ERE pipeline in action — DMA analysis, action selection, conscience validation, execution. Nothing hidden.
Full OTLP export — metrics, traces, logs. Plug into Jaeger, Prometheus, Grafana, any observability stack. Cognitive processing traces with span IDs, thought steps as events, service attributes.
The ConsentImpactReport schema tracks interactions, patterns contributed, and users helped. Early infrastructure for understanding how value flows through a collaborative system.
Five-step alignment check before work begins. Verify configuration, validate system integrity, confirm service health, acknowledge operational limits, log initialization. Higher-stake deployments run the full sequence.
Shutdown requests flow through the agent's normal task processing. The agent can acknowledge, defer if mid-task, or flag concerns. Configurable modes from instant to fully-managed transitions.
Multiple instances coordinate system-level decisions through shared task ownership. One instance claims decisions for the group, with full audit trail. Scale horizontally with consistent behavior.
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pip install ciris-agentWindows, macOS, and Linux supported | Python 3.10+
See all 5 installation methods →Three parallel lenses, four conscience dimensions, up to seven rounds of internal reconsideration. The agent exhausts every ethical option before asking for help. Only after all that does it defer to you or your designated advisors. You maintain final authority.
Complex ethical questions get escalated to you or advisors you trust. CIRIS doesn't pretend to have all the answers — it knows when to ask for human wisdom.
Three parallel lenses analyze every decision: ethical principles, common sense, and mission-specific context. Then four conscience checks validate the action before execution.
Core logic, database, memory, and audit logs run locally. LLM inference uses your choice of provider — cloud APIs, local models, or our zero-retention proxy. No data harvesting, no surveillance.
Built on The Three Rules: No Untyped Dicts, No Bypass Patterns, No Exceptions. Every interaction is validated through Pydantic models, creating an immutable audit trail.
From ethical reasoning and memory management to secure communications and audit logging—CIRIS coordinates specialized services that work together transparently.
Inspect the code, verify the behavior, contribute improvements. Transparency isn't a feature—it's the foundation of trust.
Education and Healthcare agents are coming soon, joining Scout, Sage, Datum, Echo, and Ally. CIRIS will always remain open source with no profit motive—because AI that serves humanity shouldn't be driven by market forces. As AI capabilities grow, our commitment to ethical principles remains constant.
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