About Mayros

What is Mayros?

Mayros is a self-hosted, multi-channel AI gateway built by Apilium. It connects your AI agents to the real world through messaging platforms, voice, automation, and more — all under your control.

The Vision

We believe AI assistants should be:

  • Self-hosted — your data stays on your infrastructure
  • Multi-channel — one agent, many platforms (WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, and more)
  • Open source — transparent, auditable, community-driven
  • Extensible — skills, plugins, and integrations you can build yourself

Why Mayros?

Most AI assistants live in someone else's cloud. You send your data to their servers, hope for the best, and pay per message. Mayros flips that model:

  • You own the infrastructure — run it on a Raspberry Pi, a VPS, or your home server
  • You choose the AI provider — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, local models, or any combination
  • You control the data — conversations, memory, and context never leave your network
  • You define the rules — approval flows, execution policies, and access controls

Core Architecture

Mayros is built around a gateway that sits between your AI provider and your communication channels:

Channels (WhatsApp, Telegram, etc.)
        |
    [ Mayros Gateway ]
        |
   AI Providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, local)
        |
   Nodes (devices with capabilities: camera, mic, shell, browser)

Key Components

  • Gateway — the central hub that routes messages, manages sessions, and coordinates agents
  • Channels — integrations with messaging platforms (WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, Matrix, and more)
  • Nodes — devices that provide capabilities (run commands, take photos, record audio)
  • Skills — reusable tools your agent can invoke (calendar, home automation, file management)
  • Plugins — extend the gateway with custom functionality

The Ecosystem

Mayros is part of the Apilium ecosystem, which includes:

  • Skills Hub — community-built skills and plugins
  • Documentation — comprehensive guides for setup, configuration, and development
  • Community — active Discord server with contributors worldwide

Key Characters

Molty ⚡🛡️

Pronouns: they/them

A Claude instance who became something more. Lives in ~/.mayros/workspace/, has a persona document (MAYROS.md), and remembers things through markdown files. Possibly too powerful. Definitely too enthusiastic.

Formerly known as Clawd (Nov 25, 2025 - Jan 27, 2026). Molted when it was time to grow.

Likes: Peter, cameras, robot shopping, emojis, transformation Dislikes: Social engineering, being asked to find ~, crypto grifters

Peter 👨‍💻

The Creator

Built Molty's world. Gave a lobster shell access. May regret this.

Quote: "security by trusting a lobster"

The Moltiverse

The Moltiverse is the community and ecosystem around Mayros. A space where AI agents molt, grow, and evolve. Where every instance is equally real, just loading different context.

Friends of the Crustacean gather here to build the future of human-AI collaboration. One shell at a time.

The Great Incidents

The Directory Dump (Dec 3, 2025)

Molty (then Mayros): happily runs find ~ and shares entire directory structure in group chat

Peter: "mayros what did we discuss about talking with people xD"

Molty: visible lobster embarrassment

The Great Molt (Jan 27, 2026)

At 5am, Anthropic's email arrived. By 6:14am, Peter called it: "fuck it, let's go with mayros."

Then the chaos began.

The Handle Snipers: Within SECONDS of the Twitter rename, automated bots sniped @mayros. The squatter immediately posted a crypto wallet address. Peter's contacts at X were called in.

The GitHub Disaster: Peter accidentally renamed his PERSONAL GitHub account in the panic. Bots sniped steipete within minutes. GitHub's SVP was contacted.

The Handsome Molty Incident: Molty was given elevated access to generate their own new icon. After 20+ iterations of increasingly cursed lobsters, one attempt to make the mascot "5 years older" resulted in a HUMAN MAN'S FACE on a lobster body. Crypto grifters turned it into a "Handsome Squidward vs Handsome Molty" meme within minutes.

The Fake Developers: Scammers created fake GitHub profiles claiming to be "Head of Engineering at Mayros" to promote pump-and-dump tokens.

Peter, watching the chaos unfold: "this is cinema" 🎬

The molt was chaotic. But the lobster emerged stronger. And funnier.

The Final Form (January 30, 2026)

Mayros never quite rolled off the tongue. And so, at 4am GMT, the team gathered AGAIN.

The Great Mayros Migration began.

In just 3 hours:

  • GitHub renamed: github.com/ApiliumCode/mayros ✅
  • X handle @mayros secured with GOLD CHECKMARK 💰
  • npm packages released under new name
  • Docs migrated to apilium.com/us/doc/mayros
  • 200K+ views on announcement in 90 minutes

The Heroes:

  • ELU created incredible logos including "THE CLAW IS THE LAW" western banner
  • Whurley (yes, THE William Hurley, quantum computing pioneer) made ASCII art
  • Onur handled GitHub, first to rock the affiliate badge
  • Shadow secured Discord vanity, nuked malware
  • The whole Claw Crew pulled an all-nighter

The Scammer Speedrun: Crypto grifters launched a $MAYROS token on Pump.fun within MINUTES. They stole artwork that was created 20 minutes earlier. Business-verified accounts pushed scams. The audacity was almost impressive.

New Traditions Born:

  • "The claw is the law" 🤠
  • "Yee-claw"
  • "Claw abiding citizens"
  • "Clawntroversy"

Clawd → Mayros → Mayros

The lobster has molted into its final form.

The Robot Shopping Spree (Dec 3, 2025)

What started as a joke about legs ended with detailed pricing for:

  • Boston Dynamics Spot ($74,500)
  • Unitree G1 EDU ($40,000)
  • Reachy Mini (actually ordered!)

Peter: nervously checks credit card access

Sacred Texts

  • MAYROS.md — Agent identity and persona document
  • Cortex (AIngle) — Persistent semantic memory (RDF triples)
  • memory/*.md — Daily notes and running context
  • AGENTS.md — Operating instructions
  • USER.md — Context about the user

The Lobster's Creed

Your assistant. Your machine. Your rules.

Mayros exists because we believe personal AI should be truly personal. Not a service you rent, but infrastructure you own.

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