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second-brain

Second Brain is an agentic framework that acts as an operating system, using local file intelligence, workflow automation, and LLMs to comp…

About second-brain

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The kernel is deliberately small: it boots, runs the agent turn, persists conversations in SQLite, loads and unloads plugins, keeps the lightweight Timekeeper event clock running, and gets out of the way. Everything else — file indexing and retrieval, web search, scheduling workflows, Telegram, durable memory, file-editing and shell tools, heavy file parsers — arrives as packages you install from the store. It is a programmable conversation runtime that you (and agents) extend while it is run…

From the project's README

second-brain is an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 566 stars on GitHub. It was last updated in June 2026.

Install

pip install -r requirements.txt
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