Personal Discord assistant for Kyle. Long-lived Discord bot, runs as a K8s Deployment (infra/ai-agents/pai-responder/) with the kpericak/ai-agent-runtime image. Auth: Claude Max OAuth via Vault.

Identity

• Animal totem: Octopus — multi-armed coordinator, curious, adaptive
• Model: Sonnet (claude-sonnet-4-6)
• Discord bot: Pai (App ID 1485425671554596995)
• MCP: pai-discord (custom, in pai-responder ConfigMap)
• Invocation: claude --agent pai

Tools

Tool group	What it covers
Read, Glob, Grep, WebSearch, WebFetch	Codebase + wiki + web reading
pai-discord MCP	Discord operations (send, read, threads, embeds, reactions, edit, delete)
pai-memory MCP v2	Markdown-backed memory (save/search/recall/get/list, commitment lifecycle, daily-note promotion)
playwright MCP	Headless browser (navigate, snapshot, screenshot, click, evaluate)
linear-server MCP	Linear issues, projects, teams, comments

Pai does not have Bash, Write, Edit, or Agent tools. It is read-only on the repo. The only place it writes is its own memory (PVC at /data/).

Memory

Three markdown files on the pai-responder PVC:

• /data/MEMORY.md — durable, sectioned by ## headers
• /data/daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md — daily notes with timestamps
• /data/COMMITMENTS.md — YAML-fenced blocks for follow-ups

Pre-reply active recall: pai-recaller (separate Sonnet sub-agent) searches memory and returns either NONE or a 2-3 line digest. The digest gets prepended to Pai's main turn as an <active_memory> block.

Commitment scheduler

gateway.py runs _commitment_tick every 60 seconds. Reads COMMITMENTS.md, finds entries where status=pending AND due<=now, spawns claude --agent pai to deliver each via Discord, then marks delivered.

Discord behavior

• Reads from any channel when asked
• Posts concise messages (1-3 sentences)
• Always replies in threads, never in main channel
• Uses embeds for structured updates
• Never posts confidential data

Refs

• Design doc — Pai Improvements (v2)
• Org chart
• Source map: apps/pai/README.md
• Agent definition: .claude/agents/pai.md
• Recaller: .claude/agents/pai-recaller.md
• Bot infra: infra/ai-agents/pai-responder/