v0.5.0
Athena v0.5.0 — initial public release.
Athena is a single-user personal virtual assistant and second brain that runs on any local agent harness (Claude Code or Codex). The harness is the runtime; Athena is the identity layered on top via a persona-rendered agent contract.
Architecture
- S3 vault — the canonical, agent-only store: one self-describing markdown object per doc (YAML frontmatter + typed relations) plus a derived
_index.jsonmanifest for metadata-filtered search and graph adjacency. - HydraDB — the semantic brain: recall (semantic + keyword) over projected body text, an auto-derived entity graph, and user memories.
- Notion — the curated, human-facing WIP surface. Movement is one-way for content via
athena promote; state and URL flow back.
Highlights
- Capture, ingest, retrieval + synthesis, ideation, meeting logging, Gmail triage, calendar prep, typed link-graph building, and a headless
dreamenrichment cycle. - Safety floor: never autonomously sends Gmail — drafts only.
- BYO keys. Run
athena initto set up your persona + services.
MIT licensed.
Full changelog: https://github.com/firatcand/athena/commits/v0.5.0