Initial public release v1.0.0
Agora Cosmica is live. This is the first public release.
Live at agoracosmica.org. Launched 2026-05-06 at 07:18 CEST (05:18 UTC).
A Living Library You Can Talk To. 30 historical figures from 2,500 years of human thought, each with a researched voice and 12 wisdom teachings. Bilingual EN + DE. Open source under AGPL-3.0. Nonprofit. No tracking.
What ships in v1.0.0
- 30 figures × 12 wisdom teachings (360 total)
- 360 narrative stories, 360 prism dialogues, 110 multi-figure council debates, all bilingual
- 6 ways to engage: Story, Wisdom, Prism, Quest, Free Talk, Council
- Live AI conversation: BYOK via OpenRouter (encrypted locally with AES-256-GCM, never transits our servers) plus Free tier via Cloudflare Worker proxy to Nebius (30 messages a day per identity, no signup)
- Self-hosted live audio on 2× Hetzner GEX130 servers in Germany: Kokoro (EN), F5 and Qwen3-TTS (DE), Faster-Whisper (STT)
- 1,660 long-form pre-recorded audio files served from Cloudflare R2 with 1-year immutable edge cache
- 90 prerendered SEO pages
- WCAG 2.2 AA, SecurityHeaders A+, SSL Labs A+, Mozilla Observatory A+ (115/100, 10/10), Hardenize clean
- GDPR, EU AI Act Article 50, German youth protection (JMStV), DDG §5 Impressum
Full release notes: CHANGELOG.md.
Built by ChipMates gemeinnützige GmbH, a German nonprofit.