Open-source Phantom gives AI its own computer, email, and self-rewriting config
JafarNajafov · x · 2026-09-14
Phantom, an open-source project built on the Claude Agent SDK, bills itself as the closest thing to a real AI co-worker: it runs on Slack, gets its own dedicated VM and email address, and learns your workflow every day.
- Self-evolution engine: after each session it runs a 6-step pipeline (Observe → Critique → Generate → Validate → Apply → Consolidate), rewriting its own config via triple-judge voting with a minority veto; every version is stored with full rollback
- Production stories: one Phantom, asked to help with data analysis, installed ClickHouse on its VM, loaded all 28.7M rows of Hacker News data (2007–2021), built an interactive dashboard, and registered a REST API as an MCP tool; another built its own Discord support on the spot when asked
- Other features: persistent 3-tier vector memory, runtime MCP tool creation, shareable dashboards, AES-256-GCM encrypted credentials, 770 passing tests
Boots with a single docker compose up; 100% open source (1.5k GitHub stars).
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