Run agents locally
Your agents run on your own hardware. Your conversations, your data, your rules. Selu uses Docker to make self-hosting straightforward.
What is Selu?
Selu is a personal agent platform. It gives you the power of AI agents — helpful assistants that can actually do things for you — running entirely on your own infrastructure. No data leaves your machine unless you want it to.
Whether you’re someone who just wants a smarter assistant in your daily life, or a developer building agents for others, Selu is designed to meet you where you are.
Who is Selu for?
Section titled “Who is Selu for?”Everyday users — You don’t need to know how AI works under the hood. Install Selu, pick an agent from the marketplace, and start chatting. It’s as simple as sending a text message.
Developers and tinkerers — Build your own agents, publish them to the marketplace, and extend what agents can do by creating custom capabilities. Selu gives you a clean, gRPC-based tool system to work with.
What can you do with Selu?
Section titled “What can you do with Selu?”Browse the marketplace
Find and install agents built by the community. A scheduling assistant, a research helper, a writing coach — pick what’s useful to you and get started in seconds.
Chat from anywhere
Talk to your agents through web chat, iMessage, or Telegram. Use whichever channel fits your workflow — Selu connects them all to the same agent.
Extend with capabilities
Agents become powerful when they can take actions. Capabilities are the tools agents use — reading files, searching the web, calling APIs — and you control exactly which ones are available.
How it works — the big picture
Section titled “How it works — the big picture”At a high level, Selu has three layers:
- Agents — The AI personalities you interact with. Each agent has a role, a set of capabilities, and a connection to a language model (like OpenAI, Anthropic, or a local model).
- Capabilities — The tools agents can use to take actions on your behalf. These are powered by a gRPC-based system, so they’re fast, reliable, and easy to extend.
- Channels — The ways you talk to your agents. Web chat is built in, and you can connect iMessage, Telegram, or other messaging platforms.
You install Selu once, configure a language model provider, and then add the agents and channels you want. From there, it’s just conversations.
What makes Selu different?
Section titled “What makes Selu different?”- Self-hosted by default — Your data stays on your machine. There’s no cloud service sitting between you and your agents.
- Non-technical friendly — The dashboard, marketplace, and chat interfaces are built for people who don’t write code.
- Developer extensible — If you do write code, you have full access to create agents, capabilities, and integrations.
- Multi-channel — One agent, many ways to reach it. Start a conversation on the web, continue it on Telegram.
Next steps
Section titled “Next steps”Ready to get started? Head to the Installation guide to set up Selu on your machine.