Holt

$ holt
Start your assistant. It sets the folder up the first time, then launches your brain branded as Holt, with your memory wired in. A CLI brain opens its own full interface, a direct API brain runs inside Holt. One command either way.

holt

Start your assistant. It sets the folder up the first time, then launches your brain branded as Holt, with your memory wired in. A CLI brain opens its own full interface, a direct API brain runs inside Holt. One command either way.

holt init

Step through setup on its own: trust the folder, choose and install a brain, sign in, and turn on local memory.

holt memory

Per folder memory with semantic recall. holt memory add teaches it a fact on the spot, and holt memory global shares high value facts across your folders when you opt in.

holt wiki

A cross-linked wiki an LLM keeps for you, derived from your memory. Turn on auto-sync and it stays current on its own, and it is always safe to rebuild.

holt graph

See your memory as an interactive knowledge graph. Point it at your code and docs too, and it clusters them into communities with a god-node report.

holt hook

Ambient memory for Claude Code: inject relevant notes into every prompt and capture facts when a session ends.

holt run

Run one task non-interactively: recall, let the brain do it, then remember the result.

holt schedule

Fire a task on a timer, using a real OS timer: launchd on Mac, cron on Linux, Task Scheduler on Windows.

holt routine

A named job that bundles a task or skill with a schedule and where the output goes.

holt skill

Thirteen skills ship built in, including onboard, audit, and level-up. Search and add more from the community registry, or create and publish your own. Portable agentskills.io format.

holt mcp

Serve this folder's memory to Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex over MCP.

holt voice

Teach Holt how you write, from a short interview or your own samples.

holt write

Draft content in your voice, with checks that keep it from reading like a machine.

holt telegram

Chat with Holt from your phone. holt notify pushes a message to you.

holt doctor

Look at your machine and recommend the best way to run Holt on it. Add --fix and it repairs the common problems for you: starts Ollama, pulls the missing model, mends a damaged config.

holt tour

A two minute guided first run: ask about your files, teach Holt one fact, watch it remember. Made for people new to the terminal.

holt update

Get the latest Holt in one word. Detects npm or Homebrew installs on its own.

holt reset

Start a folder over safely. Asks for a typed confirmation, and your own files are never touched.

Full command and configuration reference lives in the docs.

Set up Holt for me (https://github.com/holt-os/holt), an open-source personal AI assistant whose memory stays on my own machine.

Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/holt-os/holt/main/docs/INSTALL.md and follow it exactly. It is written for an agent doing this install.

When Holt runs, tell me to open it in the folder I want to work in with `holt`, and to run `/skill onboard` in that first session so it learns who I am.

Ground rules: only download from the GitHub links above. Ask me before using sudo, installing anything system-wide (Homebrew, Node, Python, ffmpeg) or changing files outside the install folder. Never ask me to paste a password or API key into this chat. When you finish, tell me what you installed, where it lives, and the one command I run to use it. If you cannot run terminal commands, give me the exact steps to run myself instead.

Prefer to read the code first? The whole thing is on GitHub, MIT licensed.

1. Shipping

   The core loop

   Bare holt launches the real interactive brain (Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini) branded as Holt, with setup and memory wired in. Any brain as a CLI or a direct API connection, and brain switching that keeps context.

2. Shipping

   Memory that compounds

   Per folder memory, semantic recall on a local model, distilled facts, ambient hooks for Claude Code, and opt-in memory shared across folders.

3. Shipping

   The graph and the wiki

   Your memory as an interactive graph that now weaves in your code and docs with community structure, plus a cross-linked wiki an LLM maintains and can keep current on its own.

4. Shipping

   A real command surface

   Run, schedule, routines, a skill registry to search and share, an MCP server, Telegram, a machine advisor, and voice aware writing.

5. Shipping

   Self-healing, and more brains

   No raw errors, ever: crashes log the detail and holt doctor --fix repairs the usual causes. A guided tour, one-word update and reset, and two new direct brains: Kimi and Grok, beside Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini.

6. Shipping

   Useful on day one

   An onboarding interview that fills memory with your work in about fifteen minutes, a weekly audit of what is still missing, and a level-up session that turns one manual chore into something Holt does. Scheduled jobs now install real OS timers on Windows too, not just Mac and Linux.

7. Next

   More ways in

   Voice and mobile ways to reach Holt, beyond the terminal.