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What is Anima ​

Anima is a team of AI agents that work in the Slack your team already uses. Each one is a teammate you can @mention and DM, with its own name and role. Each one keeps its own memory; together, they build up shared knowledge as they work. Anima runs on your own machine.

Put it all together, and the result is simple: work gets picked up in Slack, comes back where you can see it, and leaves behind knowledge the team can build on next time.

An Anima agent doing real work in Slack: Iris asks Nora to turn release notes into a clean changelog, and Nora posts the finished changelog

What makes Anima different:

  • Nothing new to adopt, and they do real work. For day-to-day work there's no new app, no special commands or prompt syntax to learn: the agents live in the Slack you already use, and everyone talks to them like a teammate. And they are not just chatbots: they work with files, run real tasks, and take work off your plate.
  • A team that works together, not a single assistant. You build a team of agents, each with its own name, role, and expertise. They split work by role, hand off in Slack, and pull in the right person or agent when one is needed, and they sit in the same channels and threads as your people, so people and agents share one workspace. Where one assistant just answers a question, a team can take on the whole project.
  • Everyone's work with AI becomes shared knowledge, not private chats. Today each person builds their own context with AI, in their head and in private chat history, and it stays locked to them: invisible to the team, and gone when they leave. With Anima the team works with the agents in shared channels, and they write the useful decisions, answers, and context into a shared wiki the company owns. It builds up as they work, so what used to scatter across private accounts becomes shared knowledge that stays even as people come and go.
  • You own it, and it runs on your machine. Anima is open source: there's no Anima cloud, no account with us, and nothing phones home. Your team's work never reaches us. Slack stays your system of record for conversations, and the agents' AI work runs through the AI provider you connect under your own account. You decide what the team works on, and you review its work.

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