novus v1.1.0 — First public release

The essence of a self-evolving AI agent in ~15K lines of TypeScript.

Before this release: Novus ran as an internal system for one month of intense daily use (140+ sessions), maintaining a 3-node deployment (phone ↔ cloud VM ↔ overseas VPS), shipping daily news digests, and self-healing its own infrastructure. v1.1.0 is that same core, cleaned and open-sourced.

Core

• Agent loop on pi-agent-core: tool calling, streaming, multi-turn sessions
• CLI: interactive chat, one-shot mode, session management, --serve HTTP API + Web UI
• Dual-track env vars: NOVUS_* with automatic ANTHROPIC_* (Claude Code) fallback — works with any Anthropic-protocol endpoint (DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, gateways)

Memory

• Three-layer persistent memory: knowledge base, episodic experience, project memory
• Knowledge graph linking + MCP server exposing memory to other agents

Evolution

• Evolution tracker: logs capability changes across sessions
• Behavior guard: monitors the agent's own tool-call patterns (over-calling, repetition) and injects corrective rules

Tools (16 built-in, dynamic registry)

read/write/edit/bash/grep/find, connect (web senses), codebase-map, github, plan, execution-tracker, auto-manage (autonomous scheduled tasks), session-context, session-worklog, knowledge-graph, evolve-track, runtests, and more — drop a .ts file to add your own

Platform

• Termux/Android native: storage mirroring, wake locks — designed to run on a phone
• 109 tests, zero mandatory heavy dependencies (browser fetching is optional)

Install

git clone https://github.com/RexHuang/novus.git && cd novus
npm install && npm run build
npm link   # gives you the `novus` command

Requires Node.js 20+ and any Anthropic-protocol API endpoint. Termux/Android step-by-step: MOBILE.md.

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Apache 2.0. Agent loop built on pi-agent-core by Mario Zechner.