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Introduction

What Delphi is and why you'd want to run it.

Delphi is a self-hosted personal AI agent built on the Claude Agent SDK. You connect it to Telegram or Discord, define its role, and it gets smarter every time you chat with it.

It is not a chatbot. It is an agent — it can run shell commands, read and write files, call external APIs, schedule recurring tasks, and improve its own source code. You control what it can do and who can talk to it.

Why self-host?

A Claude Code subscription covers Delphi's usage at no extra cost. Everything runs on your own machine. Your conversations, memory, and data never leave your infrastructure.

Intended use

Delphi is strictly for personal, non-commercial use on your own machine, for yourself and your household.

Do not use Delphi to:

  • Process requests for clients, customers, or paying users
  • Run as a shared service for colleagues or third parties
  • Power any commercial product or business workflow

Each person who wants an agent must run their own instance with their own Claude subscription. Using a single personal subscription to serve multiple people's requests violates Anthropic's terms of service.

Delphi does not enforce these limits technically — compliance is your responsibility. If you need a multi-user or commercial deployment, use the Anthropic API directly under Anthropic's Commercial Terms.

What it is not

  • Not a team tool. Delphi is designed for one person or a household. There is no user management, no roles, no permissions system.
  • Not a SaaS product. There is no subscription, no dashboard login. You run the code.
  • Not affiliated with Anthropic. Delphi is an independent open-source project. "Claude" and the Claude Agent SDK are products of Anthropic, PBC.

Next steps

Start with Prerequisites to confirm your environment is ready before running setup.