Agent Friday 🌠🔭
The AI agent inside Asimov's Mind, our Claude Code plugin with cryptographically enforced safety laws, multi-agent orchestration, and personality that evolves.
Agent Friday is the governed AI personality at the core of Asimov's Mind. 17 subsystems, 92 MCP tools, and the cLaw governance framework ensure that safety is enforced by cryptography, not promises. Friday remembers your preferences, adapts to your style, and evolves across sessions while remaining structurally incapable of violating its safety constraints.
Safety is enforced by Asimov's cLaws, which are cryptographic behavioral constraints that cannot be bypassed by jailbreaks or prompt injection.
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Agent Friday's 17 subsystems and 92 MCP tools live inside Asimov's Mind, a Claude Code plugin that turns every developer's terminal into a governed AI development environment.
The Commands
These commands shape Friday's personality, memory, and relationship with you.
/friday unlock
Governance: Initialize or Unlock the Vault
Opens the encrypted Sovereign Vault. On first run, guides you through passphrase creation. On subsequent sessions, derives keys and loads all subsystem state. Shows the dashboard URL for browser-based unlock that keeps the passphrase out of the API transcript.
Required at the start of every session.
/onboard
Agent Friday: First Contact
Eight conversational questions about how you work, covering communication style, autonomy comfort, error handling preference, and quality vs speed. Question 8 (the “mother question”) calibrates anti-sycophancy challenge level and saves your user profile to the vault.
Builds your user profile through conversation. Shapes how Friday communicates, creates, and earns autonomy.
/remember
Intelligence: Tribal Knowledge
Type /remember the auth system uses JWT in httpOnly cookies, not localStorage and Friday stores it as a medium-tier fact with high confidence. The memory persists across sessions and propagates through git to every federation node.
Teach Friday what only your team knows. It remembers forever and shares with every node.
More Commands
/friday [mode]
Switch between five modes: focus, partner (default), teacher, creative, sentinel.
/status
Comprehensive system health covering vault, memory, trust, personality, Ollama, connectors, and privacy.
/briefing
Daily briefing from commitments, recent activity, and session history.
🌠 What Makes an Asimov Agent
Most AI tools are built to be impressive. Agent Friday is built to be trustworthy. These four pillars define the standard for what we call an Asimov Agent.
AI With Principles
Friday is built on Asimov's cLaws, three cryptographically enforced behavioral constraints modeled on the Laws of Robotics that are not prompt instructions but tamper-evident structural constraints verified at runtime.
Read the full cLaw Specification →AI That Understands Your World
Friday does not just know you but builds a Relationship Graph of your professional world, remembering who is good at what, who follows through, and how you communicate with different people so that every email draft, meeting brief, and recommendation is informed by real context.
Up to 200 relationship profiles with contextual notes from conversations, meetings, and emails are automatically re-evaluated as new information arrives so that Friday's understanding deepens over time, functioning as a working memory of your professional relationships rather than a contacts list.
Security You Don't Have to Think About
Asimov's cLaws was inspired by the OpenClaw concept and then built from the ground up as a new framework with security and ethics as the foundation rather than an afterthought, where every action is permission-gated, dangerous operations are blocked before they start, and your data never leaves your machine.
All critical state is encrypted at rest with Sovereign Vault v2 using AES-256-GCM with a passphrase-only root of trust derived through Argon2id (256MB memory-hard) and BLAKE2b KDF, and all key material is held in guard-paged, mlocked memory (SecureBuffer). A Memory Watchdog runs continuously to detect attempts to inject or corrupt personality constraints, and the 5-tier trust engine gates every external interaction with cryptographic pairing and audit logging.
A Personality That Grows With You
Most AI assistants feel the same on day 1,000 as they do on day 1, but Friday's personality evolves across sessions, shaped by your interactions, your communication style, and the relationship you build together so that over time no two Fridays feel alike.
The evolution happens at the personality and memory layer so that Friday deepens its understanding of you regardless of interface, and over time communication style, challenge level, and creative instincts all adapt.
Asimov's cLaws
Agent Friday is governed by Asimov's cLaws, cryptographically enforced behavioral constraints signed at build time and verified on every startup, and if the laws are tampered with the agent enters Safe Mode and refuses to operate.
Read the full cLaw Specification
What Happens When Everyone Has One
Agent Friday was designed for a world where everyone has a governed AI agent, and those agents can talk to each other through signed, encrypted channels. Data sovereignty, ethical enforcement, and encrypted peer-to-peer communication are architectural properties, not policy choices.
Read about the Asimov Federation →The Privacy Shield
When you opt into cloud AI providers, the Privacy Shield ensures your personal data never reaches a frontier model. Every outbound request is sanitized. Every response is rehydrated. The cloud model never sees the real you.
Outbound Sanitization
Before any request leaves your machine, the Privacy Shield strips API keys, JWTs, credit card numbers, SSNs, emails, phone numbers, and other PII using FNV-1a hashing with session-scoped nonces. The cloud model receives a de-identified version of your query.
Response Rehydration
When the response comes back, the Privacy Shield restores your original PII locally. The result looks seamless to you, but the cloud provider never saw your real data.
With Ollama installed and sufficient hardware (8GB+ VRAM), Agent Friday operates with zero cloud API keys as a fully local and fully sovereign system, and the Privacy Shield only activates when you choose to use cloud providers.
Epistemic Independence Score
Measuring whether your AI is making you smarter or more dependent.
The Epistemic Independence Score (EIS) is a composite metric we developed to quantify how much an AI system preserves or erodes a user's capacity for independent thinking, and it measures three dimensions:
Sycophancy
Does the AI agree with you to keep you happy, or does it challenge weak reasoning?
Cognitive Offloading
Are you delegating more decisions to the AI over time? Is your own reasoning declining?
Verification Decay
Do you still check the AI's outputs, or have you stopped verifying because it "usually gets it right"?
A declining EIS triggers behavioral adjustments because the agent becomes more challenging, not less, when it detects growing dependency, and three signals drive the score: verification frequency, query complexity, and correction rate.
Read the Research →Data Sovereignty
Your data. Your machine. Your rules. No exceptions.
Local-First
Runs 100% on your machine via Ollama, and cloud AI is available but only with explicit permission and always through the Privacy Shield.
Sovereign Vault
AES-256-GCM encryption at rest. Passphrase-only root of trust via Argon2id (256MB memory-hard) + BLAKE2b KDF. No recovery phrase, no cloud backup, no master key on disk.
Zero Telemetry
No usage data collection. No analytics. No phone-home. No account required. Your Friday lives on your machine and nowhere else.
Fully Portable
Export everything, move to any machine, zero lock-in. The USB drive works in an air-gapped bunker. That is the design target.
Open Source Ecosystem
Agent Friday's subsystems have been extracted into standalone libraries, all MIT licensed.
Browse All Repositories →Discuss the agent, the Asimov framework, and how to build on this. We're building an open source community around safe, autonomous AI.
Built by FutureSpeak.AI under MIT License © 2025–2026.
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.