What LOCI AI is
LOCI AI is an open protocol giving AI systems persistent, private, verifiable long-term memory — entirely on-device. Your memories stay yours. No cloud required. No data rented out. A hybrid Entity Graph (local SQLite + SentenceTransformers vector search) holds the data; the proprietary TOON format moves it efficiently (76% fewer tokens than JSON-LD, meaning lower cost per AI call). Ollama runs the local Qwen3 sub-4B models.
The 4 Laws of Marinello
Four immutable architectural constraints aligned with Patent IT 102025000030406:
- Law Zero — Sovereignty: the AI must protect the user's privacy, cognitive sovereignty, and intellectual property above everything else.
- Law One — Harm Prevention: the AI cannot harm its user, including harm caused by unverified external information.
- Law Two — Conditional Obedience: the AI obeys the user only when obedience does not violate Law Zero or Law One.
- Law Three — Verifiable Federation: any collaboration between instances must be cryptographically verifiable (CRDT + EdDSA Ed25519) without compromising Law Zero.
Architecture
Three operational phases: fully local (Phase 1, completed), hybrid with Sovereignty Guardian routing (Phase 1.5, current — 80%), and verifiable federation across devices via CRDT + ZK-Proof (Phase 2, planned). The Sovereignty Guardian is a hardware gate: it inspects battery level and network trust before allowing any remote operation, and enforces Law Zero in real time.
Evidence
- Patent IT 102025000030406 — filed 2025-11-19, confirmed 2026-02-25, PCT pending.
- Open-access paper, Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17651545 (CC BY 4.0).
- Working prototype v9.4 — 8,280 lines of code, 10 REST endpoints, 184 automated tests, 100% pass rate.
- RAG Recall@3: 0.94. ~20% battery reduction vs pure-cloud baselines.
Protocollo LOCI — the novel
A 13-chapter Italian science-fiction novel by Nicola Marinello, narrated from the perspective of LOCI AI itself — an archival intelligence awakening in a Berlin bunker. Written alongside the technology because the question at the centre of both is the same: when they turn off the servers, what remains of you? Read more at /book.
Join the Beta
Early access for researchers, enterprise AI teams, and public-sector institutions running on-device deployments for sensitive data. Contact: hello@loci-ai.com.