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pal · the Personal Agentic Layer

Your pal for every moment.

A friend that gets things done, and asks first. pal answers your messages in your voice, keeps track of your people and plans, and holds anything that matters until you say yes.

Building agents of your own? PAL Runtime is the open-source layer pal runs on.

Meet palPAL Runtime for builders
Maya
Today 6:42 PM

hey! did you see the cabin is booked for the 14th 🎉

yes!! can't wait

could you send your share today? $300, I fronted it

pal held this for you

“sending it tonight 👍”

It promises money, so it waits for your yes.

Invented example. pal held it for you.

The PAL Promise

Four things pal will always do.

  • Sounds like you.

    pal writes the way you write. Every reply is scored against messages you really sent, and a draft that drifts from your voice is rewritten before it goes out.

    How it works

  • Remembers your people.

    One memory of each person across iMessage and WhatsApp: what you talked about, what you planned, what you promised.

    How it works

  • Asks before it promises.

    Money, commitments and anything it cannot verify are held for your yes. Nothing that matters goes out on a guess.

    How it works

  • Never stops, never leaks.

    Runs pick up where they left off after a crash. Untrusted code runs in a microVM, keys stay outside it, and every run can carry a signed receipt.

    How it works

One layer. Two ways in.

The same layer that looks after your messages runs agents for teams. Pick the door that fits.

For you

pal, your personal agent

Lives in iMessage and WhatsApp, on your own Mac.

  • Replies to people the way you would
  • Remembers who is who, across both apps
  • A daily Brief of the moments that need you
  • Holds money and promises for your yes
Meet pal

PAL Runtime, for builders

Run your own agents in your own cloud. Apache-2.0.

  • It finishes: runs resume after a crash
  • It’s contained: code runs in a microVM, keys stay out
  • It’s yours: deploy in your VPC, budgets enforced up front
  • Every run can carry a signed receipt
Explore PAL Runtime

Brief

Only the moments that need you.

Ask pal what’s up and it ranks what is waiting on you: people you haven’t answered, replies it held, things you said you would do. Answer with a number and it drafts the reply.

See everything pal does
pal

what’s up?

pal

3 moments need you

  1. 1Jordan has waited 2 days for an answer about Saturday
  2. 2Held: your reply to Maya promises $300
  3. 3You said you’d send Alex the slides

1

pal

Draft for Jordan: “so sorry, Saturday works! 11 at the park?” Reply send or edit.

Proof, not promises

pal runs on PAL Runtime.

The layer that runs your life can run your agents. Everything here is open source; try the whole stack on your laptop with Docker, no API key needed.

  • Apache-2.0
  • Firecracker / Kata microVMs
  • Go + Rust
  • Tests in CI
git clone https://github.com/dshakes/lantern.git && cd lantern && make demo
Read the quickstartView on GitHub