Open-source personal AI infrastructure for orchestrating your life and work

🔌 This is the Claude Code plugin version of PAI

Install with one command to get the full Personal AI Infrastructure. For advanced setup or the standalone version, visit the main PAI repository.

Core Mission: Augment humans with AI capabilities so they can survive and thrive in a world full of AI.

It doesn't matter how powerful AI becomes if it's not accessible to everyone.

Right now, AI is trapped behind corporate APIs, expensive subscriptions, and complex interfaces that only developers can use. Meanwhile, billions of people who could benefit from AI augmentation—artists, teachers, small business owners, researchers, parents—are left behind.

PAI exists to solve this. This project's goal is to give the most powerful AI capabilities, in the form of a complete platform, to everyone on Earth.

PAI is your personal AI that actually knows you—all your projects, your style, your data—and can handle anything you throw at it. Whether you're an artist transitioning to independence, a founder building a company, or someone managing complex life needs, PAI becomes whatever you need it to be.

PAI is an open-source, full personal AI platform that's completely agnostic to who you are and what you're trying to accomplish.

1. Get Claude Code

Visit https://claude.ai/code to get Claude Code (Anthropic's official AI CLI).

2. Install Bun Runtime

brew install oven-sh/bun/bun

Option 1: One-Command Install (Easiest)

claude-code plugin install github:danielmiessler/PAIPlugin

Option 2: Manual Install

# Clone the plugin
git clone https://github.com/danielmiessler/PAIPlugin.git ~/.claude/plugins/PAI

# Run setup
cd ~/.claude/plugins/PAI
./setup.sh

# Create environment file
cp ~/.claude/.env.example ~/.claude/.env

# Add your API keys (optional - for research agents)
vim ~/.claude/.env

Open Claude Code and start using your Personal AI Infrastructure!

claude

This system is designed from the very beginning to be available to anybody and to grow and scale with you throughout your life.

• 🔓 Open Framework: No vendor lock-in, complete transparency, you own everything
• 🌍 Universal: Works for anyone, anywhere, in any profession or life situation
• 🤖 Platform Independent: Core structure works with Claude, GPT, Gemini, or any AI platform
• 🧠 Persistent Memory: Your AI remembers every context, project, and conversation
• 🎯 Task Agnostic: From writing a blog to tracking medical data to running a business
• 📁 Plain Text: All configuration in human-readable files you can edit and understand
• 🔌 Extensible: Add your own skills, agents, and integrations

PAI is built on four core primitives that work together:

💡 Skills - Meta-containers for domain expertise

• Package workflows, knowledge, and procedural guidance
• Auto-load based on natural language triggers
• Progressive disclosure prevents context bloat

⚡ Workflows - Discrete task workflows within Skills

• Self-contained, step-by-step workflows in workflows/ subdirectories
• Auto-selected by natural language or invoked explicitly
• Like "exported functions" from a Skill module

🤖 Agents - Orchestration workers for parallelization

• Enable parallel execution of independent tasks
• Primarily invoke Skills/Workflows (not standalone knowledge bases)
• Best for background work where results are logged

🔌 MCPs vs Direct Code - Implementation flexibility

• Use MCPs for standardized platform services
• Use direct API code for domain-specific integrations

User Intent → Natural Language Trigger
    ↓
SKILL (Container for Domain)
    ↓
WORKFLOW (Specific Task)
    ↓
Implementation (Direct Code or MCPs)
    ↑
Invoked by AGENTS (for parallelization)

Example:

You: "Do extensive research on AI agent planning"
  ↓
Research Skill loads
  ↓
workflows/extensive-research.md selected
  ↓
Launches 24 parallel researcher agents
  ↓
Results consolidated and saved

📖 Read the full architecture documentation

• 🐛 Report Issues: https://github.com/danielmiessler/Personal_AI_Infrastructure/issues
• 💬 Discussions: https://github.com/danielmiessler/Personal_AI_Infrastructure/discussions
• 📖 Full Documentation: https://github.com/danielmiessler/Personal_AI_Infrastructure

⭐ Star the repos to stay updated:

• PAI Main Repository
• PAI Plugin

Special thanks to contributors who have enhanced PAI:

• Joseph Thacker (@rez0) - FFUF skill with comprehensive web fuzzing guidance

PAI is MIT licensed. See LICENSE for details.

"Humans are what matter. AI is only as useful as it is to people. A system like this is needed to level the field with AI and help us get to Human 3.0."

Created by Daniel Miessler

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Questions? See the full PAI documentation for comprehensive guides, examples, and architecture details.