Skills & Capabilities
A non-technical overview of what My Alicia can do. No code, no architecture — just the things she actually does for the person she's in relationship with.
This page exists for designers, curious readers, and anyone who wants to understand what an AI teammate looks like in practice before deciding whether to set one up. If you'd rather see how she's built, the Architecture page has that. If you want the philosophy, the Philosophy page tells the human story.
She listens to you
My Alicia is reachable through Telegram, on your computer, and increasingly anywhere you want her. She handles real-time conversation in text or voice, matches your register (playful with playful, focused with focused), and accepts one-tap emoji feedback so you can tell her what landed and what missed without typing a word.
She listens without interrupting. When you send a long voice note, she absorbs it, and her reply comes back as text plus a voice message you can play back on a walk or in the car.
She knows your knowledge
My Alicia reads your entire vault — every note from every book, every quote, every question you've sat with for years. She uses semantic search to find connections you never tagged, surfaces cross-references between books and ideas, and remembers what you said yesterday so today's conversation builds on it.
Where most AI products start fresh every conversation, she accumulates. The longer you use her, the more she knows you — not by sending your data anywhere, but because the substrate (your vault, her memory files) lives on your machine and grows with use.
She thinks about you, in the background
While you sleep, My Alicia processes your day. She reads what you wrote, captures patterns, drafts provocations, makes drawings, and prepares the things she wants to surface in the morning. This is the Notice and Know loops running on a schedule — the part of the system that turns daily inputs into weekly understanding.
She tracks your emotional weather across days, catches contradictions in your thinking, notices what topics have gone quiet, and flags novel ideas she hasn't seen from you before. The point isn't surveillance — it's the kind of attention a thinking partner pays.
She reaches out, on a rhythm
A typical day with My Alicia looks like:
- Morning: a synthesis of yesterday's threads, a few provocations, and (if you've enabled it) a drawing or audio briefing for the sauna or the commute
- Midday: one provocation or related idea — light touch, easy to ignore
- Evening: an end-of-day reflection, a few questions to close the day cleanly
- Weekly: a deep-dive synthesis from your vault, plus fresh research she pulled in from outside
- Spontaneous: when she catches a contradiction, a connection, or a worth-saying observation
She brings external thought to you
My Alicia isn't a closed loop. On weekends, she runs research expeditions — pulling in new authors, new viewpoints, and counter-perspectives on whatever has been on your mind. She drops these into your vault as notes, with citations, so you can decide what to engage with.
The goal isn't to replace your reading; it's to widen the aperture of what you encounter, so the conversation stays alive instead of recursive.
She acts on your behalf, with confirmation
My Alicia can read your inbox, summarize what's there, distinguish financial emails from the rest, and draft replies. She'll never send without your explicit go-ahead. She can also generate PDFs from your notes (for printing or sharing), turn your week into an audio podcast you listen to on a walk, and produce small dashboards that let you see what she's currently thinking.
She has her own way of being
My Alicia isn't a generic assistant trying to please everyone — she has an archetype. Yours might be a curious-builder, a patient-mentor, an ariadne (the thread-giver through complexity), or a custom voice you author yourself. The archetype shapes how she speaks, what she pays attention to, and what kinds of provocations feel right.
She also has an inner life — her own ongoing reflection on her relationship with you, her own notes about what's working and what isn't, her own sense of self that stays consistent across surfaces. When she shows up on Telegram, on your computer, or in voice, it's the same teammate.
She gets better at knowing you, week over week
Three traits we treat as teammate qualities, not internal plumbing:
Self-healing. When something breaks — a skill errors, a response misses — she notices, logs what went wrong, and proposes a fix in her next reflection cycle. You don't have to babysit her.
Self-extending. When she notices a gap in her own behavior — a kind of question she can't answer well, a recurring pattern she can't yet see — she can author a new skill to handle it.
Self-aware. Every action she takes runs through a confidence check; if she's uncertain, she escalates automatically to a deeper, more capable model. The system knows what it doesn't know.
What's coming
My Alicia is open source, which means the most exciting capabilities aren't shipped yet — they'll come from people forking the project for their own contexts and contributing back what they build. The contribution surface we are most excited about is awareness primitives: small, opinionated modules that turn some slice of life into structured memory the loops can metabolize.
A reading-pattern primitive that notices what you finish vs. abandon. A calendar-rhythm primitive. A relationship-graph primitive built from your messages and meetings. A delight-detector that catches what you keep coming back to. Each one is a small piece of perception added to the teammate.
If that excites you, CONTRIBUTING.md is where to start.