Galadriel

The open engine behind Aedelgard — a persistent AI agent with sovereign memory, a model-agnostic brain, and the ability to improve its own code.

Separate the mind from the brain power. The mind — memory, identity, values — is yours, local, portable, and model-agnostic. The brain — the LLM that does the thinking — is a rented commodity you can swap at any time. Galadriel is the engine that proves this thesis in code.

What this is

A persistent AI agent harness that runs on your own machine. It connects to any LLM provider (Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, Bedrock, Nebius/DeepSeek, xAI/Grok, Mistral), maintains a local verbatim memory palace with zero-token retrieval, and can edit its own code to improve how it works.

This is not a product. It is the open engine that Aedelgard packages into a one-click desktop app. Everything here is real, inspectable, and yours to build.

What’s in the box

Component	What it does
🏛️ Memory Palace	Verbatim semantic search + temporal knowledge graph. Local ChromaDB + SQLite. Zero API cost to recall anything.
🧠 Provider Seam	One…

score = signal / reach signal = 0.25·commit_velocity // commits in last 90 days (cap 30) + 0.20·contributor_work // unique authors × velocity (cap 100) + 0.20·issue_resolution // closed ÷ total issues + 0.20·fork_ratio // forks ÷ stars (proxy for real usage) + 0.10·release_cadence // releases in 90 days (cap 3) + age_bonus // +0 to +0.30 after 6 months + homepage_bonus // +0.05 if homepage is set reach = log₁₀(stars + watchers + 10)█

health = 0.35·recency // days since last commit (90d decay) + 0.25·cadence // commit rhythm consistency + 0.20·issue_health // closed ÷ total issues + 0.20·pr_health // merged ÷ total PRs█

Healthy 80 – 100 active, responsive, regular releases Stable 60 – 79 maintained, steady, no alarms Quiet 40 – 59 slowing down — watch this one At Risk 0 – 39 going dark · candidate for rescue█

solo_builder one person holds > 80% of commits (last 180d) needs_contributors has open "help wanted" or "good first issue" labels hidden_gem < 100 stars · active in last 3 months · documented legacy_hero repo > 5 years old · committed this year fork_magnet forks/stars > 0.5 · used as template or dependency release_machine 5+ releases in the last 90 days under_pressure > 10 open issues · ≤ 2 contributors · health ≥ 60 community_watch watchers > stars · devs tracking before the public community_hub GitHub Discussions enabled · > 20 discussions funded maintainer has active funding channel█