1Helm

1Helm is a system for persistent AI agents organized as a crew. The user is the Captain, and Skipper is an agent that lives in #main, has hands on the computer, and takes tasks, goals, and half-formed ideas to build a crew to get work done. The product's stated premise is that intelligence should not be temporary, contrasting temporary chatbot memory with agents that continue to exist and remember.

Skipper creates new channels and new employees. For each employee, Skipper builds a private Linux computer — an Apple container machine on Mac, or its own OCI container on Linux and Windows — with its own storage, RAM, and CPU, fully isolated from the real machine. New agents start out knowing almost nothing by design, look around their machine, and ask Skipper for help on their own. Skipper provides exactly the access the job needs, nothing more, then gets out of the way.

Agents remember details, lessons, file locations, and identity across fresh threads. They can work while the user sleeps, wake themselves up, do the job, and report back. Work done together can become a written procedure the agent runs later. 1Helm works with every model the user already pays for, and the model can be swapped mid-conversation while the agent keeps its name, files, memory, and learned behavior. One Captain and one Skipper can support as many crew members as needed, each in their own channel and isolated machine. Setup requires a dedicated machine with 8 GB RAM and 200 GB storage, installation and sign-in with existing providers, and access from yourworkspace.1helm.com. 1Helm is free, open source, and model-agnostic.