Project "God"ish

Started as three hours of typing out the rules I actually wanted to live by — not vibes, not "just be a good person, " but an actual framework: notice what's happening (ACCEPT), sit with it without flinching or spiraling (OBSERVE), decide what's actually yours to decide (CHOOSE), do the one next thing (ACT), let the rest go (RELEASE). That's the whole operating system. Once it was written down as five files instead of five vague feelings, the hobbyist brain went "well now it needs a body."

How it works

The "brain" is four markdown files — philosophy.md, rules.md, practices.md, and safety.md — that are the god, not code that talks about the god. An LLM (Gemini by default, Claude as a fallback) reads them as its system prompt every single turn, so the voice and the boundaries live in plain text you can open and edit, not buried in Python. Two hard lines are baked in no matter what: it will never predict future or destiny — uncertainty gets named, not resolved with a guess — and if a conversation turns into a crisis, it drops the philosophy framing and points to real human help, every time. It remembers selectively (a cheap second model call decides what's actually worth keeping, not a transcript dump), and it has modes: SPIRAL walks you out of a spiral one question at a time, MORNING and NIGHT are short scripted check-ins.

Then it got a body: an ESP32-S3, a mic, a speaker, a little OLED face. Hold the button, it listens (eyes open, LED blue); let go, it thinks (eyes drift, LED rainbow) while Groq transcribes your voice and the agent replies; then it talks back out loud (eyes flutter, LED green) before going back to sleep (eyes rest, LED off). No app, no screen to stare at — you just talk to it.

What it does

Out of the box it's my god — my principles, my accountability. But none of that is hardcoded to me. Open source, swap the four files for your own framework — your religion, your therapy language, your habit rules, whatever actually keeps you honest — and it becomes a mental-health check-in, a therapy companion, a habit nudge, or literally your own religion given a voice and a face on your desk. Mod the files, not the code.