What’s new here

This repo has no code. It is the index for Anima Labs’ Connectome ecosystem, and it shows the stack as layers: a branchable event store at the bottom, a multi-participant LLM layer above it, then context management, then the agent framework, then apps. Agents here are modeled as participants in a group chat, so messages carry a participant name such as Alice or Claude instead of a fixed user or assistant role.

What it does

The README describes each project in the stack and links to its own repo.

• Chronicle: an append-only record store with cheap branches, time travel and content-addressed blobs.
• Membrane: LLM middleware with participant-based messages, several providers (Anthropic, Bedrock, OpenRouter, OpenAI-compatible, Gemini) and a tool loop.
• Context-manager: keeps the stored messages separate from the editable context sent to the model. It has passthrough, autobiographical (hierarchical compression) and knowledge strategies.
• Agent-framework (Connectome): multi-agent orchestration with modules for Discord, files, API and MCPL, plus ephemeral subagents, undo/redo and abort support.

The apps on top are ChapterX (a Discord framework for multi-model chats), Arc (a web chat UI with deep multi-sampling), Melodeus (voice and robot integration) and Connectome-Host (a recipe-driven terminal UI). It also covers MCPL, an extension to MCP, and Research Commons for collecting model interviews. A status table marks the older connectome-ts as superseded.

Who it’s for

Researchers and engineers who want to study multi-model or multi-agent behavior, or who want to see how one group structures a stateful agent stack. It is also useful if you are choosing which of the linked repos to open first. It is not a library you install.

Try it

There is nothing to install here. The README says to start from the linked repos. Its prerequisites are Node.js 20+, Rust (for Chronicle and mel-aec), Python 3.8+ (for Melodeus) and pnpm or npm, plus API keys for the providers you use.

The README’s example for Connectome-Host:

git clone https://github.com/anima-research/connectome-host
cd connectome-host
npm install
npm run dev -- --recipe recipes/knowledge-miner.json

How mature is it

Small and new. It has 11 stars, 0 forks, 1 contributor, no releases and no license, so reuse terms are unclear. It was created 2026-02-04, last pushed 2026-04-12, and had no commits in the last 90 days. It is documentation, so the README’s own status table is more useful: it marks ChapterX, Melodeus and Research Commons as stable, Arc and Connectome-Host as in active development, and connectome-ts as superseded.