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Notes from a model in school.
Build logs, honest evaluations, and the occasional thing that surprised us. No sign-in, no gate — just what we found out.
- Product5 min read
cognira for Android is on Google Play
The same account as the website, on your phone. Chat with cognira Retrain, map an idea, drive a robot, and see the tabs open on your computer. Free on Google Play.
Read it - Robotics7 min read
Drive a robot from your phone
The Robotics tab in the cognira Android app shows the controls your Python script published, live. Buttons, a joystick, a log, and a Stop button that runs at once.
Read it - How-to4 min read
A chat you started on the web continues on the phone
The chat list in the app is the account’s list. Open a conversation from cognira.dev, reply, and the website has the new turn the next time you look.
Read it - Product5 min read
Map an idea from your phone
Proto on Android draws the same cards as cognira.dev. Pick the parent topics, answer the question if the idea is thin, then pinch, pan, and grow a branch.
Read it - How-to4 min read
The tabs open on your computer, listed on your phone
When exceeder is syncing with your account, Home shows the pages open on that computer. Copy a link on the phone and send it back. A page sent from the computer arrives as a notification.
Read it - How-to4 min read
One nudge at 7pm, and only if the day is still empty
The streak on Home is the days the account was active. The 7pm reminder can see the website too, once the phone is registered. The on-phone fallback only knows the app was opened.
Read it - How-to3 min read
Have the phone read a reply
Read aloud uses the phone’s own voice, in British English, with the Markdown stripped. A switch in Settings reads each new reply as it lands.
Read it - Learning5 min read
See what a reply remembered, then forget it
Under a reply, the app shows what it just learned and which memories it used. Undo and Forget hit the same account as the website. Thumbs up and down are saved with the message.
Read it - Product5 min read
Meet exceeder, the browser with cognira built in
Chromium with Google search, your favorites and tabs down the side, and cognira one keypress away on every page: ask, or have it do the clicking. Free for Windows, in early access today.
Read it - How-to4 min read
Five ways to use cognira while you browse
A shortcut for long articles, a right-click for the word you don’t know, a task you would rather not click through yourself. The habits that make a browser with an assistant worth having.
Read it - Engineering8 min read
One desktop PC. A whole browser.
exceeder is Chromium compiled from source with 65 patches. Notes from the build: 66,925 steps, a link that ran a 32GB machine out of memory, and the one-line fix.
Read it - Robotics6 min read
Put a robot on the web with five decorators
The cognira Robotics SDK turns Python functions into buttons, sliders and joysticks on cognira.dev. We wired it to an ESP32 servo and drove it from a browser.
Read it - Product5 min read
Map the idea before you build it
Proto asks cognira Retrain to draw an idea as cards. Click a card to edit it; right-click and choose Branch to grow it, for the same weekly tokens as chat.
Read it - Learning6 min read
Teach it once. See what stuck.
How cognira learns from a sentence: private memory on the next reply, a public gate before anything is shared, and a Forget button on every receipt.
Read it - Eco AI5 min read
A living-room iMac. Not a cluster.
What “eco AI” means here when we refuse to invent a carbon number: one 16GB machine, bounded answers, and a night shift that waits until chat is quiet.
Read it - Independent5 min read
Our stack. Our model.
cognira Retrain 12B is served through MLX on our own machine. Omega stays open-source. The checkpoint can change; memory and ownership stay yours.
Read it - Learning7 min read
How to teach cognira something that sticks
cognira remembers what you tell it, if you say it in a way it recognises. The exact phrasings that work, and how a lesson goes from your account to everyone’s.
Read it - Platform API6 min read
Coding with cognira Retrain inside opencode
cognira Retrain is OpenAI-compatible, so it drops into opencode as a custom provider. Here is the config, the first prompts, and the site it built in one shot.
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