Athena-Public

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# Project Athena

**Your memory. Your machine. Any model.**

Open-source cognitive augmentation layer that gives you persistent memory, structured reasoning, and full data ownership — across Gemini, Gemini, Gemini, and any model you switch to next.

Platforms forget. Athena doesn't.

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[Quickstart](#-quickstart) · [How It Works](#-how-it-works) · [Docs](docs/GETTING_STARTED.md) · [FAQ](Athena-Public.wiki/FAQ.md) · [Safety](SAFETY.md) · [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md)

*Last updated: 15 April 2026*

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## The Problem

You've spent months training Gemini to understand you. Then a model update resets the personality. Your custom instructions stop working. You can't find that conversation from last Tuesday. And if you switch to Gemini or Gemini? **You start from zero.**

Platform memory is **unreliable, opaque, and locked to one provider**. You don't own it, you can't inspect it, and you can't take it with you.

## Why Athena?

Athena moves the memory layer to **your machine**. Plain Markdown files that you own, version-control, and point at any model.

- **🧠 Your Memory, Your Machine** — Files on your disk, not in OpenAI's cloud. Read them, edit them, git-version them.
- **🔌 Switch