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Mammals — Daemon

mammals

A persistent AI system that runs on your machine 24/7. Powered by Claude.

Each agent has a code name and a role. You give the order. Your pack handles the rest.

Runs natively on Claude Code. Connects to Gemini, Grok, Veo, Kling, ElevenLabs, and any API you throw at it.

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What is Mammals?

Mammals turns Claude Code into a full AI agent system — a web dashboard, multiple named agents, persistent memory, voice I/O, scheduled tasks, and mobile access. Instead of typing commands in a terminal, you chat from your phone and your agents handle everything in the background on your Mac.

It runs 24/7 on your machine. You create specialist agents, give them tasks, and they work autonomously — browsing the web, writing code, managing files, monitoring prices, building websites, whatever you need.

Requires a Claude Pro or Max subscription ($20–$100/mo from Anthropic). Mammals itself is free.

Claude-native. Multi-model capable.

Mammals runs on your Claude subscription — not the API. Claude handles reasoning and execution. External models handle what they're best at.

Claude — core brain
Gemini — image gen, vision
Grok — real-time search
Veo / Kling / Sora — video
ElevenLabs — voice & TTS
Any API — if it has an endpoint
$200+/mo
API-based tools
Free
Mammals — pay what you wish

Most agent platforms bill per token. Mammals is free — pay what you wish. Runs on your existing Claude Pro or Max plan.

Not a chatbot. An operator.

Every other AI tool is a window you open. Mammals never closes.

Always On

Runs 24/7 on your machine. No browser tab to keep open. Starts on boot, survives restarts, picks up where it left off.

Self-Managing Pack

Create named specialist agents with one message. Mammals auto-routes tasks to the right agent, manages sessions, keeps them alive across restarts.

Controls Your Machine

Full terminal access, file system control, browser automation via Chrome DevTools Protocol. It doesn't just suggest — it executes.

Meet the pack

Every agent has a name, an avatar, a role, and persistent memory. Create as many as you want — each one is yours to customize.

Swipe or use arrows to browse

Infinitely customizable — name, avatar, personality, tools, and role are all yours to define

Connects to everything

Via MCP (Model Context Protocol), browser automation, and direct APIs.

It can reprogram itself

Mammals runs on Claude Code — it can read, write, and modify its own codebase. Build new skills, change behaviors, add capabilities. All through conversation.

Build New Skills

"Build me a skill that checks Hacker News every morning and sends me the top 5 AI posts." Mammals writes the script, registers it, and schedules it.

Reconfigure On The Fly

Don't like how it handles something? Tell it. It modifies its own code and the change takes effect immediately.

Import Community Skills

Browse community-built skills, audit the code for safety, and install with one command. Or write your own from scratch.

mammals — self-modification

you:

build me a skill that watches my front door camera and texts me if it detects motion after midnight

mammals:

[writing] scripts/door-watch.ts — camera feed + motion threshold

[registered] skill: door-alert — active midnight-6am, snapshot on trigger

Live. I'll send you a photo and alert the moment anything moves.

What people build with Mammals

Setup in three steps

1

Run the installer

One command. It installs everything and opens a visual setup wizard in your browser — no terminal experience needed.

curl -fsSL mammals.dev/install.sh | bash
2

Walk through the setup wizard

A guided web UI opens in your browser. Enter your name, connect Telegram, set up remote access — step by step. Re-access it anytime from HQ settings.

3

Build your pack

Create agents with a single message. Give each a code name and a role. They persist and remember everything.

How it compares

Feature
Mammals
Claude Cowork
OpenClaw
Perplexity Computer
AI cost model
Claude sub — flat rate
Claude sub ($20-$100/mo)
API pay-per-token
Perplexity Max ($200/mo)
Runs 24/7
Yes — starts on boot
No — app must be open
Yes — daemon mode
Yes — always-on
Named agents
Unlimited — persistent
Sub-agent coordination
No named agents
Single agent only
Persistent memory
SQLite + semantic + KG
Per-project memory
Markdown + SQLite
Session history only
Autonomous
14 built-in systems
User-initiated
Cron only
Task-based
Mobile access
HQ + Telegram
Claude app + Channels
Telegram, Discord, 50+
Perplexity app
Community
New — growing
Anthropic ecosystem
5,400+ skills
Enterprise focused
Total cost
Free + Claude sub
$20-$200/mo
Free + API costs
$599 + $200/mo

Built natively on Claude Code

Mammals isn't a third-party wrapper or API hack. It runs directly inside Claude Code — Anthropic's official CLI tool.

Third-party frameworks

  • Call the Claude API as a third-party wrapper
  • Build proprietary orchestration layers on top
  • Depend on API access that can change
  • Require separate API keys and billing

How Mammals works

  • Runs inside Claude Code — Anthropic's own product
  • Uses claude -p CLI, the official interface
  • No API keys, no third-party wrappers, no middlemen
  • Your Claude subscription powers everything

Mammals isn't built on Claude. It's built inside Claude.

Persistent sessions, tool use, file access, shell commands — all using Claude Code exactly as it was designed. No hacks, no exploits, no workarounds.

Built for privacy by default

Mammals runs on your hardware. Your data never touches a third-party server.

local

Local-first

Everything runs on your own machine. Your files, your API keys, your conversations — none of it leaves your hardware.

.env

You own your keys

API credentials are stored in a local .env file only you can access. No cloud vaults.

lan

Network-only access

Mammals HQ is only accessible on your local network — never exposed to the internet. Add Tailscale for secure remote access from anywhere.

sudo

Explicit guardrails

Destructive actions — deleting files, force pushes, dropping databases — always require your confirmation.

1 user

Single-user access

Mammals only responds to you. HQ runs on your local network, Telegram is locked to your account. No multi-tenant risk.

log

Full audit trail

Every action is logged locally. See exactly what happened, when, and what the result was.

Your data is never used to train models.

Claude Code conversations fall under Anthropic's standard privacy policy. No third-party data processing.

Access from anywhere

Your pack runs on one machine. You control it from all of them.

The ideal setup
SERVER
Mac Mini / Desktop
Always on, always home
Mammals runs here 24/7
Tailscale
encrypted mesh
LAPTOP
Laptop
Full HQ dashboard
http://100.x.x.x:5067
Tailscale
encrypted mesh
PHONE
Phone
PWA app + Telegram
Same HQ, native feel
Dedicated machine runs your pack 24/7 — a Mac Mini, old laptop, or any always-on computer
Tailscale connects all your devices over an encrypted private network — free, zero-config
Open HQ from any device, anywhere — coffee shop, airport, bed. Same dashboard, same agents
Local
hq

Mammals HQ

Built-in dashboard. Chat, manage agents, monitor activity — any browser on your local network.

http://your-machine:5067
Remote
vpn

Tailscale VPN

Encrypted mesh network between your devices. HQ becomes accessible from anywhere — no port forwarding, no exposed servers.

http://100.x.x.x:5067
Fallback
tg

Telegram

Message your agents from any Telegram client. Works even without VPN — always available as a backup.

@your_bot on Telegram

PWA — install it like an app

Open HQ in Safari or Chrome, tap "Add to Home Screen." Full-screen, no browser chrome, instant launch — feels native on any device.

  • Works on iOS, Android, Mac, Windows
  • No App Store, no downloads, no updates

Why Tailscale?

Private encrypted network between your devices. Your Mammals instance stays invisible to everyone else. Free for personal use.

  • Zero-config — install and it works
  • WireGuard encryption — fast and secure
  • No open ports, no dynamic DNS, no firewall rules

Why not just build it yourself?

You can. Here's what you're signing up for.

01

Even with Claude Code, it's a grind

Session management, MCP integrations, cron scheduler, browser automation, voice, persistent memory, crash recovery, boot config — a lot of trial and error before anything works.

02

The traps are non-obvious

Session poisoning. Context window management. Prompt injection. Race conditions. Dead sessions that look alive. You don't know what you don't know — until it silently fails at 2am.

03

Maintenance is the real cost

APIs change. MCP servers update. Claude models evolve. Keeping it working is its own job.

04

Memory systems aren't trivial

Semantic search, salience decay, episodic memory, knowledge graphs, contradiction detection — Mammals ships all of it wired together.

Skip the months of debugging and start using it today.

You can absolutely build this yourself — Mammals saves you the pain. Free to use, pay what you wish if it's useful.

Pay what you wish

Free to download. No subscriptions. No per-message fees. Support development if it's useful to you.

Requires Claude Pro or Max subscription (separate, from Anthropic). Personal use license.

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