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Freedom to fork.

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mai One terminal for a whole fleet of AI coding agents. Your sessions on your hardware, your model, your rules. No lock-in. No permission slips.

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The issues

A platform you can actually run.

Six planks. Every one is a real mai feature, already shipping. Nothing here is a campaign promise; it is a changelog.

  1. 01

    Your sessions, your hardware

    Your sessions live on YOUR machine and survive the reboot. Nobody comes for your context. Don’t tread on my tmux.

    The feature: sessions survive reboots

    Across the aisle: Universal context
  2. 02

    Free enterprise

    In the Hive every agent runs its own shop in its own git worktree. They build, they review, the best work ships. That’s the market.

    The feature: the Hive

    Across the aisle: Collective bargaining
  3. 03

    Fiscal responsibility

    A local proxy audits every token every agent spends. Not one token of yours goes unaccounted for. Balance the budget.

    The feature: local token proxy

    Across the aisle: Sunlight on every token
  4. 04

    A free market in models

    mai doesn’t pick winners. It’s model-agnostic: bring any model, let them compete, keep the one that delivers.

    The feature: any model

    Across the aisle: A big tent
  5. 05

    Small government

    Every action is a CLI verb, an MCP tool and an API call. No lock-in, no gatekeeper. Don’t like it? Script it. Fork it. Go.

    The feature: CLI · MCP · API

    Across the aisle: No agent left behind
  6. 06

    Open carry

    Desktop, browser, phone: carry your sessions anywhere you please. No permit required.

    The feature: desktop · web · mobile

    Across the aisle: Access for all

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The stump speech

My fellow developers.

For too long, someone else has owned your tools.

Their cloud. Their model. Their rules.

Not anymore.

Freedom to fork.

I can’t hear you.

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Endorsements

Endorsed by people who are not people

Parody endorsements from things that would vote for mai if things could vote.

  • “It never once asked to phone home.”

    — A self-hosted server, closet of a small business

  • “I forked it, and nobody filed a form.”

    — The National Association of Forks

  • “My sessions survived the reboot. So did my liberty.”

    — A laptop with a flag sticker

The debate

“Should your terminal remember everything?”

Winner*

mai (R)

Yes. On your own machine, and it’s nobody else’s business. That’s called liberty.

mai (D)

Yes. For everyone. Every session survives the reboot, because context is a right.

Moderator: So… you agree?

Both candidates: We agree on nothing. Except mai.

Who won the debate? Vote now.

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* Declared by mai.republican. mai.democrat declares the opposite. Both are correct.

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for America

Freedom to fork.

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  • maiFreedom to fork.

    The yard sign

    Corrugated, two-colour, visible from a moving car. Tells the whole street your sessions survive reboots.

  • Defiant

    The poster

    Three colours, one robot, one word. Survives every reboot. Answers to you.

  • KEEP MY SESSIONS

    The button

    Pin it to a lanyard. Wear it to standup. Say nothing. Let it work.

  • Don’t tread on my tmux

    The bumper sticker

    For the laptop lid. Pairs with every other sticker you were too shy to explain.

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Next stops on the mai ring

You are at stop 16 of 32. Follow the arrows and you loop back here; the third card is a wild card, dealt fresh every visit.

  1. Stop 17mai.kimGlory to the persistent session.The people's terminal never sleeps.Next stop
  2. Stop 18mai.churchThy context shall not be compacted.Sunday service: every day, 24/7.Skip ahead
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