Create the habitat first.
Builder mode cares about assembling the environment: persona, tools, memory, and sub-agents in one directory that can be reused.
- npx umwelten habitat
- shared config and memory
- same runtime across interfaces
Tools for keeping an agent inside a world.
Most AI interfaces hand you isolated replies. Umwelten is more like a catalog of techniques for building the place around the reply: a habitat for continuity, an eval for comparison, and a session archive that remembers what work felt like.
Use evals before committing to a default model.
Run the same prompt across multiple providers and locals so differences become visible as evidence.
Every model perceives through a constrained horizon.
Research mode emphasizes the original Umwelt idea: intelligence is shaped by what can be sensed, remembered, and compared.
- session traces as research material
- cross-model reasoning differences
- semantic search over prior work
Comparison is epistemic hygiene.
Without side-by-side tests, most model claims remain aesthetic impressions.
Keep one environment, change the doorway.
Operator mode values stable behavior while moving among CLI, Telegram, Discord, and web surfaces.
- portable runtime
- repeatable eval IDs
- inspectable histories
Less reconfiguration, more continuity.
The environment accumulates judgment instead of forcing you to re-specify it every time.
HabitatsContinuity over isolated prompts.
EvalsSame task, multiple models, measurable differences.
SessionsPast work becomes searchable and reusable.