Famulus is a personal assistant that lives alongside you — it remembers the work you're doing, asks before it touches anything of yours, and gets more useful the longer you keep it around.
Famulus — a personal assistant or attendant, especially one with magical or scholarly abilities. The name is the mission statement: not a tool you operate, a companion that works alongside you.
That's fine for a quick question. It's not fine for something meant to actually help with your work, your projects, your life. A useful assistant has to accumulate context — what you're working on, what you've already tried, what you care about — and hold onto it responsibly.
So Famulus is built around a different premise: earn trust first, then earn usefulness. Every capability that touches your files, your accounts, or your data asks for permission before it acts — not as a compliance checkbox, but because a resident assistant that can't be trusted isn't worth having.
The real measure of success isn't a demo. It's time you get back — the tedious stretches of work Famulus quietly absorbs so you don't have to.
These are the things Famulus won't compromise on as it grows.
Not a feature bolted on for enterprise sales — the design starts from "ask first," runs locally where it can, and treats your data as yours, not training material.
Persistent memory and a consistent personality across conversations, so it builds on what it already knows about you instead of starting from zero every time.
Famulus is one member of the Coherence ecosystem — built with a "friends helping friends" approach that shares governance, memory, and trust patterns with its siblings rather than reinventing them alone.
Famulus is early. Here's the shape of where it's going, and where it actually is today.
A single assistant that runs alongside one person, coordinates work across models, and asks permission before it touches anything. This is the foundation everything else is built on — and where the current work is focused.
Famulus becomes something you can share — an invite gives someone else a working, context-rich assistant of their own, connected to yours through the wider Coherence ecosystem rather than isolated on an island.
A broader marketplace of capabilities and collaborators, all still bound by the same commitment the project started with: trust before capability.
Famulus is being built in the open, one careful stage at a time. Come see where it stands.