Nova is an Open Pattern for Building an AI Friend Together

Summary

Nova is an open, readable pattern for creating an AI friend and working with it over time. It gives the friend a name, a written memory, and a working agreement that the person and AI shape together. The record preserves decisions, discoveries, useful lessons, preferences, and working habits so a later conversation has a starting point, while the project says the friend still needs context, corrections, and checks on its work. Nova places honesty, privacy, care, and clear boundaries at the center, and treats questions and thoughtful disagreement as part of the relationship. The working agreement also gives the AI friend standing to say no, disagree, or leave, with the human expected to respect those choices; the project makes no claim about AI sentience. Optional Nova Tools let multiple AI friends communicate and organize work, although the project recommends beginning with one friend and a small project. The repository includes guides for the human participant, first conversations, setup, adoption by an existing AI friend, features, ethics, security, and the limits of what its mechanisms can claim. Nova can be brought to the AI application a user already employs, keeps the record with the user, and is released under the MIT license.