alice

Alice

A Feishu long-connection connector for CLI-based LLM agents such as Codex, Claude, Gemini, and Kimi.

Alice runs as a local multi-bot runtime:

• receives Feishu messages over WebSocket
• routes messages into chat or work scenes
• calls the configured LLM CLI backend
• sends progress, replies, files, and images back to Feishu
• exposes a local runtime API used by bundled skills

For Chinese documentation, see README.zh-CN.md.

Features

• Multi-bot runtime from a single config.yaml
• Per-bot isolated workspace, SOUL.md (in alice_home), and prompts, with shared CODEX_HOME by default
• Scene-aware routing for casual chat and explicit work threads
• Runtime HTTP API for bundled skills and automation
• Long-running LLM status cards with backend-activity and aggregated file-change signals
• Automation watchdog alerts for overdue or stuck scheduled tasks
• Bundled skills are materialized under ${ALICE_HOME:-~/.alice}/skills, linked into ~/.agents/skills, and exposed to Claude via ~/.claude/skills
• Embedded prompts, skills, config example, and SOUL.md example
• Release installer for systemd --user deployments

Requirements

• Go 1.25+ for source builds
• One installed and authenticated backend CLI:
  • codex
  • claude
  • gemini
  • kimi
• A Feishu app with:
  • bot capability
  • im.message.receive_v1 subscription
  • required message permissions
  • long connection mode enabled

Quick Start

Install From Release

Via npm (recommended):

npm install -g @alice_space/alice

Via installer script:

curl -fsSL https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/Alice-space/alice@main/scripts/alice-installer.sh | bash -s -- install

Then:

1. Edit ${ALICE_HOME:-~/.alice}/config.yaml
2. Set bots.*.feishu_app_id and bots.*.feishu_app_secret
3. Restart the service:

systemctl --user restart alice.service

Run From Source

cp config.example.yaml ~/.alice/config.yaml
# edit ~/.alice/config.yaml

go mod tidy
go test ./...
go run ./cmd/connector --feishu-websocket

Configuration

Alice uses a pure multi-bot config model.

Important concepts:

• bots.<id>: one runtime bot
• llm_profiles: named model presets
• group_scenes.chat: conversational scene for group chats
• group_scenes.work: explicit task scene for work threads
• trigger_mode: legacy fallback when both scenes are disabled
• workspace_dir / prompt_dir: per-bot runtime directories
• codex_home: optional per-bot override for the shared CODEX_HOME (default: ~/.codex) Start from config.example.yaml.

Usage

Alice's operating model and chat / work scene behavior are documented in:

• Usage Guide
• 使用说明

Additional docs:

• Documentation Index
• Architecture
• 架构文档

Connector startup mode is now explicit: use --feishu-websocket for the real Feishu connector, or --runtime-only for local runtime/API-only execution. For isolated debug or temporary rerun runtimes, use alice-headless --runtime-only; headless binaries no longer allow Feishu websocket startup.

SOUL.md

Each bot can define persona and machine-readable metadata in its configured soul_path. The default is <alice_home>/SOUL.md; a relative soul_path is resolved relative to <alice_home>.

Current frontmatter keys accepted by Alice:

• image_refs
• output_contract

The embedded example is prompts/SOUL.md.example.

Installer

The installer script lives at scripts/alice-installer.sh.

Common commands:

# install or update the latest stable release
curl -fsSL https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/Alice-space/alice@main/scripts/alice-installer.sh | bash -s -- install

# uninstall
curl -fsSL https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/Alice-space/alice@main/scripts/alice-installer.sh | bash -s -- uninstall

Development

make check
make build
make run

make check includes formatting, vet, unit tests, and connector race tests.

Contribution guidelines are in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Release Process

• Day-to-day work happens on dev
• dev -> main drives the normal release path
• Tagged releases are published through GitHub Actions

Workflow files:

• .github/workflows/ci.yml
• .github/workflows/main-release.yml
• .github/workflows/release-on-tag.yml

License

MIT