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Plain markdown files it reads and writes as you work. You can open them. You own them.
ChatGPT forgets you the moment you close the tab. Lararium is an assistant that is actually yours.
It lives on your machine. It remembers everything you tell it. You own every file. You are not renting a chatbot from a company that keeps your data. You are keeping one that keeps yours.
You do not configure it. You talk to it.
It interviews you and writes the files itself. You answer a few questions like a human. It builds the niche around what you say.
Run other people's code without betting your machine.
Your assistant is most useful when it can clone and run a stranger's repo. That is also when it is most dangerous. So the stack ships a disposable sandbox: no network by default, nothing of yours mounted in, every privilege dropped, gone the second you exit. Say /in-the-lab and it vets the code in the box before it touches your machine.
And yes, we noticed: telling a security-minded developer to npx a stranger's installer is rich, coming from us. So don't. The scaffolder is about 200 lines of Node standard library, zero dependencies. It downloads a release and unpacks it, and runs none of the template's own code. Read it first, or clone by hand and inspect everything. Properly paranoid? Let the lab's first job be auditing Lararium itself.
Hand the whole thing to your agent.
Lararium is markdown all the way down, so the entire methodology fits in one file: what it is, how it installs, the reasoning behind every layer. Download it, drop it into your own assistant, and let it figure out what to build for you. You do not even have to read it. That is its job.
The index watches for connections. When a note you saved months ago hits what you are stuck on today, it tells you. Once, quietly, not a notification storm.
A note you wrote three weeks ago, "consistency vs. availability," just connected to the doc open in front of you.
New capabilities ship often.
Your stack tells you when there is an upgrade. If you want a human heads-up too, leave an email. Optional, and no noise.
Want this built and run for you, not by you? That is what Elorati does.