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Cheshire Cat
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the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
Open-source project, the Cheshire Cat community.
W2
What
A framework and platform for building AI assistants.
W3
Where
Self-hosted via Docker with a plugin system.
W4
When
When building a customizable assistant with memory.
W5
Why
A batteries-included assistant with plugins and memory.
W6
With
Docker, an LLM provider, and a vector store.
W7
Watch
Community-maintained; open-source (GPL-3.0), self-hostable. Runs on your infrastructure; calls the providers you configure.