Symbio Basic

What Symbio Basic does

Symbio runs as a transparent overlay on your desktop. You can connect it to any compatible AI provider for an expressive companion, or to Hermes to use a full autonomous agent with tools, skills, more memory, MCP integrations and file access. The README says the app moves a Hermes agent, local AI or AI partner from the terminal to the desktop. Every spoken line is visible, and conversations are saved as transcripts.

Features include a 3D VRM avatar with lip sync, emotions and more than 35 animations, voice conversations through OpenAI (12 voices) or Google Gemini TTS (30 voices), screen vision with optional interval screenshots, session memory files such as MEMORY.md and soul.md, optional PostgreSQL, Neo4j, DiffMem and SQLite memory, sandboxed file access, and 44 built-in avatars plus a drop folder for your own. It is built on lala-companion, which the authors say they almost entirely rewrote. Downloads are on GitHub Releases.

Key features

• 3D VRM avatar with lip sync, emotions and 35+ animations
• Voice through OpenAI or Google Gemini TTS
• Screen vision and optional interval screenshots
• Session memory files and optional database-backed memory
• Sandboxed file access for the companion
• Connects to Hermes or other AI gateways

When to use it

• Moving a Hermes agent from the terminal to a desktop avatar
• Talking to an AI by voice while it watches your screen
• Keeping a companion's memory and personality files across sessions

Who it is for: Users who want a visible, voice-enabled desktop companion for Hermes or other AI providers.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

Hermes is one of the AI gateways it connects to, and it adds a desktop avatar front end to a Hermes agent.

Requirements: An AI gateway or provider for conversations; Hermes is optional

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