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eVi documentation

eVi is a local-first personal AI assistant — CLI, web, and desktop over one shared core. See the repo or evi-ai.dev.

These pages are generated from docs/ in the repo. Edit the source there; changes here are overwritten on the next sync.

Start here

• eVi feature reference
• Configuration
• Slash commands
• Tool reference
• Troubleshooting

Guides

• Architecture
• Agent SDK (evi.sdk)
• SDK coverage + borrowable features
• Multi-machine setup
• Self-update design (Phase 29 proposal)
• Self-build — developing and building eVi with eVi
• Development notes
• Releasing
• Desktop bundling
• Code signing policy
• Surface parity — CLI ↔ Web ↔ Desktop
• eVi vs Claude Code — feature comparison
• Future integrations — backlog
• Roadmap

Feature deep-dives

• eVi feature guides
• Agents & Orchestration
• Recipes, Routines, Scheduled tasks, Channels
• Evals & LLM-as-judge
• Content Guardrails
• Hooks (tool + lifecycle, command/url)
• MCP (client + serve)
• Memory & Context management
• Observability (OpenTelemetry, stats, crash reports)
• Permissions & Sandbox
• Plugins & Marketplace
• Sessions, Resume, Handoff, Checkpoints
• Skills
• Slash commands
• Structured Outputs & Batch
• Ultracode
• Voice (TTS engines, STT, AutoSpeaker)
• Web & Desktop (settings, multi-user, deep links, updater)