Zee

Zee is a unified CLI agent engine for life admin, investing, and learning. Semantic memory, tool orchestration, and multi-surface support across the TUI, daemon APIs, OpenBB Workspace, and messaging channels.

Release

• Version: see zee --version
• Prebuilt targets: Linux x64, macOS x64/arm64, and Windows x64
• Other platforms: build from source

Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Bun satisfying the package engines.bun range
• OpenBB Platform API for investing workflows (http://127.0.0.1:6900 by default or ZEE_OPENBB_API_URL)
• API key for your model provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, etc.)

Install (npm)

npm install -g @adolago/zee
# or nightly builds
npm install -g @adolago/zee@nightly

Install (script)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adolago/zee/main/install | ZEE_NPM_PACKAGE=@adolago/zee bash

Install from source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/adolago/zee.git
cd zee

# Install dependencies
bun install

# Build the native local binary and link the local launcher
cd packages/zee
bun run build
bun run verify:binary

OpenBB setup

For investing workflows and the OpenBB copilot surface, point Zee at an OpenBB Platform API instance:

export ZEE_OPENBB_API_URL=http://127.0.0.1:6900
# optional if you use a custom launcher name/path
export ZEE_OPENBB_API_CMD=openbb-api

To create a local finance workspace with local memory and OpenBB provider setup prompts:

zee onboard --profile dcm --openbb-mode remote --acquire-keys

Provider keys can also be acquired one at a time:

zee auth acquire fred
zee auth acquire polygon

Configuration

Zee reads JSONC config from ~/.config/zee/zee.jsonc or .zee/zee.jsonc. Environment variables are used only for secrets and explicit path overrides.

For a step-by-step guide to local .env setup, OAuth flows, and live service dependencies, see docs/integrations/README.md.

Paths and overrides

Defaults follow XDG:

• Config: ~/.config/zee
• Data: ~/.local/share/zee
• Cache: ~/.cache/zee
• State: ~/.local/state/zee
• Workspace (default worktree): ~/.local/share/zee/worktree

To co-locate everything under a single state root, set ZEE_STATE_DIR. This makes config/data/cache/logs/workspace resolve under that directory as config/, data/, cache/, logs/, and workspace/.

To override only the workspace location, set ZEE_WORKSPACE_DIR.

Use zee paths to print the resolved locations.

Zee installs with local SQLite memory and local embeddings enabled. Package installation, zee setup, zee onboard, and zee daemon-install all prepare the local memory runtime.

{
  "memory": {
    "backend": "sqlite",
    "embedding": {
      "provider": "local"
    },
    "localIndex": {
      "enabled": true,
      "backend": "sqlite-fts",
      "degradedRead": "keyword_only"
    }
  },
}

Inspect or repair local memory:

zee memory status
zee memory prepare

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="..."
export OPENAI_API_KEY="..."     # Optional if using `zee auth login openai`
export GEMINI_API_KEY="..."     # Optional if using `zee auth login google`

Optional: Google Antigravity (plugin-based OAuth):

zee auth login google-antigravity

Memory embeddings are local-only by default.

Running

Interactive TUI (attaches to a running daemon):

zee
zee --no-daemon   # run without the daemon (local worker only)

Ensure the daemon is running first (systemd service recommended for always-on messaging). See docs/tui-vim-mode.md for Vim keybindings.

Daemon mode (gateway embedded):

zee daemon --hostname 127.0.0.1 --port 3210

Remote client/server (explicit):

# On the server
zee daemon --hostname 0.0.0.0 --port 3210

# On the client machine
zee client http://server:3210
# or:
ZEE_URL=http://server:3210 zee

OpenBB Workspace copilot:

zee daemon --hostname 127.0.0.1 --port 3210

Then configure OpenBB Workspace to use Zee at:

• agent metadata: http://127.0.0.1:3210/openbb/agents.json
• query endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:3210/openbb/query
• auth: Authorization: Bearer $ZEE_SERVER_PASSWORD or X-Zee-Token: $ZEE_SERVER_PASSWORD

Gateway control plane helpers:

zee gateway status
zee gateway url

Architecture

zee/
├── packages/zee/    # Main CLI/TUI/daemon
├── src/
│   ├── agent/              # Assistant profiles and wiring
│   ├── memory/             # Local SQLite memory with vector and FTS search
│   └── domain/             # Domain tools (zee/, learning/)
└── .agents/skills/         # Skills

Assistant Model

Zee is the only active assistant. The engine still exposes domain toolsets under namespaces:

• zee:* for life admin
• zee:invest-* for investing
• zee:learn-* for learning

Key Features

• Memory: Local SQLite memory with local embeddings, vector search, and FTS keyword fallback
• Single Assistant Runtime: No assistant switching or delegation required
• Embedded Gateway: Zee messaging gateway launched and supervised by the daemon

Usage with Zee Gateway

The Zee gateway is always embedded and supervised by the daemon:

zee daemon --hostname 127.0.0.1 --port 3210

For always-on messaging at boot, install the systemd service:

sudo ./scripts/systemd/install.sh --polkit --systemd-only
sudo systemctl enable zee
sudo systemctl start zee

The install script will prompt for sudo if needed. With --polkit, you can run start/stop/restart and enable/disable without sudo:

systemctl restart zee
systemctl enable zee

The systemd unit disables ProtectHome so the daemon can read/write projects in any directory under your home.

The --systemd-only flag writes daemon.systemd_only=true to enforce a systemd-only policy.

Development

# Typecheck
bun run typecheck

# Core tests
cd packages/zee && bun test

# Build + verify binary
cd packages/zee && bun run build && bun run verify:binary

Wide events

Zee emits wide event JSONL logs for per-request diagnostics:

zee logs wide --lines 50
zee logs wide --where sessionId=session_123

Acknowledgements

See CREDITS.md for upstream projects and forks.

License

See LICENSE.