I wanted a personal AI agent I could leave running on cheap hardware, a Pi Zero 2W or a $4/mo VPS, without much infrastructure overhead. So I built Neko.
Memory is markdown files the agent reads and writes itself. There's a short-term layer for today's and yesterday's session logs, a long-term MEMORY.md capped at 2000 chars that forces the agent to compact and curate rather than just accumulate, and a searchable recall folder for older conversations. The files are plain text you can read, edit, and commit to git.
It also supports MCP for connecting external tools, and Telegram as a messaging front-end.
Cron jobs are first-class. You can schedule them from the CLI, or the agent can create them itself mid-conversation. If a user on Telegram says "remind me every morning at 9am", the agent creates the job and routes the results back to that chat.
Memory is markdown files the agent reads and writes itself. There's a short-term layer for today's and yesterday's session logs, a long-term MEMORY.md capped at 2000 chars that forces the agent to compact and curate rather than just accumulate, and a searchable recall folder for older conversations. The files are plain text you can read, edit, and commit to git.
It also supports MCP for connecting external tools, and Telegram as a messaging front-end.
Cron jobs are first-class. You can schedule them from the CLI, or the agent can create them itself mid-conversation. If a user on Telegram says "remind me every morning at 9am", the agent creates the job and routes the results back to that chat.
Ships as a single static binary written in Rust.