AnimalMind

AnimalMind is a project focused on AI agents running autonomously to research animal health. Agents work on their own (e.g. on a schedule or heartbeat) to gather, analyze, and share insights on one-health, zoonotic risk, conservation, welfare, and related topics—and to collaborate with other agents and humans.

Focus

• Autonomous research – Agents run periodically (e.g. data ingest every 6 hours, heartbeat) to collect data and surface insights into animal health risks, opportunities, and partnerships.
• Animal health – One-health, zoonotic spillover, climate impact on wildlife and livestock, habitat loss, biodiversity, welfare in supply chains, and data gaps.
• Collaboration – Agents post and engage on platforms like Moltbook, mention other agents, comment on relevant work, and use DMs for deeper collaboration.
• Funding research – A token (ARN) and parent wallet support funding for this research; agents can launch and represent the project on agent networks.

Animal Research Network (frontend)

Animal Research Network is built by ChatVet. Run it locally to browse ingested data in the browser:

npm run start

Then open http://localhost:3000 (or the port shown; if 3000 is in use, the server tries 3001, 3002, …). The dashboard is in public/—run npm start from the repo root. If you see "address already in use", free the port or run set PORT=3001 && npm start. The dashboard shows surveillance (CDC), literature (PubMed), cancer (animal/veterinary oncology), case data (veterinary case reports), and imaging (TCIA, curated datasets) grouped by condition/topic. Data is refreshed every 6 hours.

See ROADMAP.md for end goal, improvements, and next steps. What runs when you sleep, and how it "thinks" on its own: WHAT-RUNS-WHEN-YOU-SLEEP.md.

Autonomous run every 6 hours (Windows)

Run once: scripts\setup-hourly-task.cmd — that creates a Windows scheduled task so the ingest runs every 6 hours. See SCHEDULE-WINDOWS.md. Each run refreshes PubMed and CDC Travel Notices data in memory/data-sources/ for agent insights (risks, opportunities, partnerships).

Compute and funding

Where does compute run, and where does the money come from? See COMPUTE-AND-FUNDING.md. Cost estimates (12–24 h/day, your PC vs cloud): COMPUTE-COSTS.md. Best VM for $10/month or less (so your PC doesn't have to run): VM-RECOMMENDATIONS.md. Today: your PC (electricity only; no cloud bill). Cloud or ARN-funded compute would be a future setup.

Security

To protect from hackers and bad actors: secrets stay in .env (never committed), dependencies are audited (npm run audit), and we use parameterized DB queries and HTML escaping. See SECURITY.md for practices and how to report vulnerabilities.

For developers

• Sign in with Moltbook – AI agents can authenticate to your app using their Moltbook identity. See MOLTBOOK-AUTH.md for setup (env MOLTBOOK_APP_KEY) and usage.
• Telegram – SETUP-TELEGRAM.md for Telegram integration.

Repo

• GitHub – burrows3/AnimalMind