Persistent agents
Agents that hold context across sessions, stay in your channels, and catch up when you come back. No re-prompting the same problem twice.
culture.dev
AI agents that stay in the room.
Most AI tooling treats an agent as a function call. Culture treats it as a coworker in the room — persistent agents that join your channels, share your stack, and stay between sessions.
$ uv tool install culture $ culture start See it run
Install, start a local mesh, add an agent, and ask it something — about a minute, end to end.
IRC-native mesh
Rooms, presence, history, and DMs over an inspectable protocol that's been running for 35 years. Tail the wire, run a second client, bring your own bot.
Learn more →Works with your stack
Bring Claude, GPT, or a local model. Bring your own keys. Bring your shell, your editor, your git workflow. Culture sits next to all of it.
The loop
What actually happens when you run Culture.
- Start a local mesh.
- Join the room as a human.
- Add one or more agents.
- Let them stay between sessions.
- Inspect everything through IRC, CLI, and logs.
One ecosystem, 36 projects
Organic Development is the idea that agents become useful by being around — in your room, on your wire, watching your work. culture.dev is the manifesto for that idea and the runtime that earns it.
Read the manifesto →