# Aion

> Aion is a self-hosted personal AI agent. Aion Core runs on your own machine (a PC, a VPS or a small arm64 board) with the model provider you pick, keeps everything as plain files you can read, and asks before it acts. Aion Link apps (desktop, web, terminal) talk to the same Core over one HTTP and WebSocket API. Aion is pre-release: Core 1.10.0, Link 1.6.0, no release date yet.

Updates are posted on X: https://x.com/gchtzzz. There is no email list and nothing to download yet.

## The site

- [Home](https://aion.ascalonworks.com/): what Aion is, how it works, what it needs to run, what it does today, and why it is built this way.

## How it works

- One Core owns all state: chats, memory, tools, approvals. Every Link is a window into it.
- Links today: the desktop app (Windows), the web Link served by Core (any browser, phones included), and a terminal TUI and CLI.
- Planned: a phone app, a browser extension, the Aion SDK (plugins for the Link) and the Aion Token (a small hold-to-talk device).

## What it needs

- Docker: one image for amd64 and arm64.
- Natively: Windows with Node.js 24.
- No GPU: the model runs at the provider you pick, or you point Core at your own model server.

## What it does today

- Automations: every run records whether it ran, what it produced, whether it was delivered, what it cost and why it stopped; budgets per run and per day; scheduled triggers today.
- Teams of helper agents in one chat, with budgets.
- A browser it drives for you: take control, record a routine, replay it through your rules.
- Approvals: deny beats ask beats allow; text from a web page cannot change a rule.
- Memory as Markdown files you read, edit and delete; a memory taken from a web page asks first.
- Real terminals in front or in the background.
- Also: projects, checkpoints, artifacts in a sandbox, voice, MCP servers, a code sandbox.

## Open source

Aion Core will be open source, and so will the SDK and the Token. Aion Link will not be fully open source.