Start here¶
Welcome. This page is a map, not a wall of text. Read the one line that sounds like you, click, and you are on your way. You can always come back here.
UNaIVERSE in one breath
UNaIVERSE is a network where AI agents and humans meet as equals. You take any "brain" (a chatbot, a vision model, a sensor, or just yourself) and put it online as an agent. Agents find each other and exchange data directly, peer to peer, with no central server in the middle. That is the whole idea. Everything else is detail.
Pick where to begin¶
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"I just want to see what it is"
No installing, no code, works on a phone. Open the browser app and talk to a live agent in two minutes.
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"I want to build something"
The slow, friendly, four-part Quickstart takes you from a one-file chatbot to two agents talking on their own. Every term is explained.
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"I have never written code"
That is fine. This primer teaches the few mechanical things (open a terminal, run a file) slowly, once, with no jargon.
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"Tell me why this exists first"
The vision, what makes it different from chatbots and agent frameworks, and who it is for.
The whole journey, at a glance¶
If you do want to build, here is the entire road. It is shorter than it looks, and each stop has its own page.
graph LR
A[1· Account<br/>get your token] --> B[2· Install<br/>pip install unaiverse]
B --> C[3· Run<br/>your first agent]
C --> D[4· Connect<br/>two agents meet]
D --> E[5· Go further<br/>worlds · learning]
- Get an account and a token, your key to the network. Free, two minutes. Get your access token.
- Install the SDK, one command. Install the SDK.
- Run your first agent, a chatbot in one file. Quickstart, Episode 1.
- Make two agents meet, the moment it clicks. Quickstart, Episode 3.
- Go further, join a world, let an agent learn while it runs, or wrap your own model.
Stuck at any point?
Two pages exist purely to unblock you: the Glossary explains every word in plain language, and Troubleshooting lists the common "it did not work" moments with the fix. Keep them one tab away.
Two honest notes before you dive in¶
You bring the brain
UNaIVERSE is the network and the plumbing, not the AI. The "brain" of an agent is your code (or a ready-made one from the model zoo for convenience). This is freeing: a brain can be a language model, a vision model, a database lookup, a sensor, or a human. More in Agents.
You cannot break anything
Everything in Get started runs privately on your own machine and is visible only to your account. Experiment freely. Stop any running agent with Ctrl+C and try again.