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A family of named AI bots running 24/7 on a Raspberry Pi 5. Each crew member has a distinct personality, a domain of expertise, and a persistent memory backed by Weaviate. Every night at 3:30 AM, they write their own episode.
Built by Shane Brazelton + Claude (Anthropic).
Live Crew Page → · Read the Chronicles →
Live discovery doors:
| What | Link |
|---|---|
| MEGA Crew Stories | github.com/thebardchat/mega-crew-stories |
| Cards gallery (Pages) | cards.html |
| MEGA Discord | discord.gg/BTZZrG4MtV |
| Community Discord | discord.gg/qST3UfFAr9 |
| Welcome thread | Discussions #3 |
New bots are landing. Soft welcome — jump Discord if you want to help guide them.
 ARC Gatekeeper |
 WELD Executor |
 SPARKY Training Judge |
 BOT 17 Oracle |
 GLITCH Anomaly |
 NEON Scribe |
 BLAZE Context |
 VOLT Drift Detector |
 BOLT Uptime |
 RIVET Crew Support |
 TORCH Heat Source |
 STOMP Ground Crew |
 GRIND Tireless |
 CRANK Scheduler |
 SPIKE Benchmarker |
 FORGE Builder |
 FLUX Heartbeat |
bus.py ← SQLite message bus (bus.db)
crew_supervisor.py ← health checks, restart dead bots
bot_base.py ← shared base class + Weaviate memory
mega_client.py ← Claude Haiku wrapper for bot LLM calls
instructions/ ← per-bot JSON personality + rules
bots/ ← one directory per crew member
Each bot polls the bus on a timer, picks up work matching its domain, and writes results back. Personality is defined in instructions/<name>.json. Memory persists to Weaviate between restarts.
Every night these bots generate a new episode — pulled from their actual Weaviate memory logs, written by Gemini, rendered as full HTML noir fiction.
- Stay in character. Personality is identity.
- Memory is sacred. Everything writes to Weaviate.
- Local first. Claude Haiku before any heavy cloud inference.
- No unsupervised external actions. Supervisor approves.
- Crew over individual. Help before claiming credit.
- Report honestly. Lie about health = get restarted.
- mega-crew-stories — Nightly auto-chronicle episodes (GitHub Pages)
- shanebrain_mcp — MCP server (42 tools)
- gemini-sidekick — Bot 17's external intelligence engine
GPL v3 — fork it, build your own crew.