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Everything you need to install, configure, and build on Agent Friday. The full reference lives on GitHub — these are the doors in.
Quick start
Get the Windows build from GitHub releases, or clone the repo and run install.sh.
Drop in your model API keys, or run fully local with Ollama and zero cloud keys.
Run /onboard, tell Friday about yourself once, and open Friday Desktop at localhost:3000.
git clone https://github.com/FutureSpeakAI/Agent-Friday.git
cd Agent-Friday && ./install.sh
Installation
System requirements, the installer, local-vs-cloud model setup, and getting Friday Desktop running on Windows, macOS, or Linux.
Read on GitHub →API Reference
The friday-core server: 178 API endpoints, 30 registered tools, and 11 core subsystems — vault, memory, trust graph, personality, privacy shield, and more.
Browse the API →Configuration
Your profile file, model routing and providers, Ollama local-first setup, the Privacy Shield, and the privacy controls that keep everything on your machine.
Configure Friday →Contributing
Friday is MIT-licensed and open source. File issues, open pull requests, and help build the sovereign-AI ecosystem.
Get involved →Building a governed agent of your own? Start with the safety layer.
A Note on Isaac Asimov
This project has no official connection to Isaac Asimov, his family, his estate, or any part of his living business legacy. We want to be completely transparent about that.
What we do have is a deep, abiding love for the man and his work. Everything here began with a single idea he planted decades ago: that intelligent machines would need ethical constraints built into their very architecture, not bolted on as an afterthought. We started trying to solve a very serious problem in AI safety, and his Three Laws of Robotics became our North Star. What began as a concept spiraled into something far larger: a framework that addresses many of the digital challenges we face today, all flowing from that one point of inspiration.
Every piece of this project is free and open source. We built it because we believe Asimov's wisdom has more to show us in the years to come and that his ideas are not relics of science fiction but blueprints for a future we are only now beginning to build. Everything that carries the Asimov name — Asimov's Mind, Asimov's cLaws, the Asimov Federation, all of it — is offered for free under the MIT license. We are not making money on anything related to Isaac's work, and that will remain our operative principle. All of our Asimov Agent innovations will always be free and open source, purely out of a desire to see his ideas manifest in the world. FutureSpeak.AI's commercial services exist separately; the Asimov ecosystem is, and will always be, a gift.
We have made a commitment: the moment FutureSpeak.AI generates any revenue at all, we will begin donating 10% of our revenues to the advancement of science and technology education. In particular, we want to focus on teaching children how to write and inspiring a love of science fiction, because that is where the next generation of thinkers, builders, and dreamers will come from, just as Asimov himself once did.
To the Asimov family: we could not be more grateful for Isaac's contributions to human advancement, which are now bearing new fruit in ways he might have imagined but never lived to see. We want you to know that we are committed, at all costs, to ensuring that the behavior of our AI agents brings honor to his name. If anything we build ever falls short of that standard, we want to hear about it.
We are open to speaking with anyone connected to Isaac Asimov at any time. We welcome that dialogue and would be honored by it.
Thank you, genuinely, for sharing him with the world.