Cica

An agentic personal assistant that lives in your chat.

Cica brings Claude's capabilities to your messaging apps. It can hold conversations, answer questions, search the web, run commands, read and write files, and learn new skills over time.

Features

• Multi-channel: Chat via Telegram, Signal, or Slack
• Multi-user: Each user gets their own agent identity and memory, while skills are shared
• Continuous conversations: Conversations persist across messages, so context is maintained
• Memory: Remembers important things about you across conversations
• Skills: Extensible through custom skills you build together
• Self-contained: All dependencies are managed locally, nothing is installed globally

Requirements

• macOS (Apple Silicon) or Linux
• Claude Code subscription or Anthropic API key

Installation

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oxideai/cica/main/install.sh | sh

Or with Cargo:

cargo install --git https://github.com/oxideai/cica

Building from Source

git clone https://github.com/oxideai/cica
cd cica
cargo build --release
./target/release/cica

Getting Started

# Run setup wizard
cica init

# Start the assistant
cica

Usage

Once running, message your bot on Telegram, Signal, or Slack. On first contact, you'll go through a quick pairing flow, then Cica will learn who it is and who you are.

# Approve a new user
cica approve <pairing-code>

# Show where data is stored
cica paths

Architecture

flowchart LR
    subgraph Cica
        direction LR
        subgraph Channels
            TG[Telegram]
            SG[Signal]
            SL[Slack]
        end
        MEM[(Memory)] --> PB
        SK[Skills] --> PB
        Channels --> PB[Prompt Builder]
        subgraph Backends
            CC[Claude Code]
            CU[Cursor]
        end
        PB --> Backends
    end
    
    Backends --> Tools[Web / Files / Shell]

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License

Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license at your option.