Lane is a Discord/terminal chatbot designed to feel authentic and personality-driven, following in the spirit of the Twitch streamer Neuro-sama. She selectively responds to messages, maintains memory across conversations, initiates her own conversations, and can speak and listen in voice channels.
- Selective responses — Lane chooses whether or not to reply, rather than responding to every message
- Memory — window, summary, and RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) memory for long-term context across conversations
- Internal monologue — Lane reasons internally before responding
- Conversation initiation — can start conversations on her own
- Image understanding — can see and interpret images shared with her
- Voice channel support — TTS (ElevenLabs or Azure) and STT (Azure) for speaking and listening in VC
- Time awareness — keeps track of the current time
- Detailed logging
- Extensive configuration — see Docs/configuration.md
| Component | Technology |
|---|---|
| Language | C# (.NET 10) |
| LLM | Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| Vector embeddings | OpenAI text-embedding-3-small |
| Vector database | Qdrant |
| TTS | ElevenLabs or Azure |
| STT | Azure |
- Required: Anthropic API key
- For Discord: Discord bot application + API key
- For RAG memory: Qdrant API key + endpoint, and an OpenAI embeddings API key + endpoint
Create a .env file in the root of the Wizard folder:
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY= # Required
DISCORD_API_KEY= # Required for Discord
QDRANT_API_KEY= # Required for RAG memory
QDRANT_ENDPOINT= # Required for RAG memory
OPENAI_EMBEDDING_ENDPOINT= # Required for RAG memory
OPENAI_EMBEDDING_API_KEY= # Required for RAG memory
AZURE_KEY= # Required for TTS/STT via Azure
AZURE_REGION= # Required for TTS/STT via Azure
ELEVENLABS_KEY= # Required for TTS via ElevenLabsAdjust appsettings.json to match your setup — see Docs/configuration.md for full details. If you don't have Qdrant set up, make sure RAG memory is disabled in your config.
Then run the binary. Pass discord or terminal as a command-line argument to select the interface (defaults to terminal).
For a full walkthrough, see Docs/getting_started.md.
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