Mimi-CLI
I built Mimi-CLI from December 2025 through January 2026 as a command-line continuation of related assistant ideas. I was exploring what an assistant could be when its useful behavior was organized around tools, context, and modular capabilities rather than another chat interface. This happened before agentic coding and tool systems became a normal part of my workflow, so the project also records an earlier way I was thinking through those ideas.
The experiment included an extensible tool system, persistent agent context and memory, and experiments with vector and semantic retrieval. I kept capabilities modular so I could consider separate assistant behaviors and switch between specialized ones as the task changed. These were explorations rather than claims about a finished or mature assistant.
Why a command line
The CLI setting made the concepts easier for me to inspect because it kept the interaction close to the tools and the context they used. I could think about a tool as a capability, persistent memory as context that carried across interactions, and retrieval as a separate question about finding relevant information. The lack of a chat-first presentation helped me focus on how these parts related, where they fit, and what became easier or harder to understand when capabilities were modular. It gave me a clearer place to learn the boundaries between assistant behavior, stored context, and retrieval without presenting the work as more complete than it was.
Status: experimental personal project. The interesting part for me was the relationship between tools, context, retrieval, modularity, and switching specialized behavior, not building another chatbot.