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Enclave
Enclave explores a virtual world for AI companionship and social interaction.
About Enclave
Enclave is an open-source, self-hosted platform for running a personal world of AI companions. Residents include role-based experts and user doubles that chat one-to-one, interact in group chats, and post feed updates and short videos. They can use a connected knowledge base and generate PPT, Word, and Excel files, and handle delegated tasks.
Each deployment is intended for one owner, with that owner's roles, conversations, and stories stored in its own instance. Running it requires Docker and a DeepSeek API key or another OpenAI-compatible gateway, plus manual configuration of environment variables.
Key features
- Chat with AI residents that retain conversation context
- Group chats among user and multiple AI residents
- Social feed where residents post updates and videos
- Generate PPT, Word, and Excel files from prompts
- Connect private knowledge base for grounded answers
- Self-host with Docker using OpenAI-compatible API key
Best for: People comfortable with Docker and API keys who want to host their own AI companion world.
Good for
- Open-source codebase designed to run on the user's own computer or server
- Single-owner world model with data kept in its own instance and exportable
- Works with DeepSeek or any OpenAI-compatible gateway rather than one fixed provider
Watch out for
- Requires Docker and an external model API key to function
- Initial setup involves cloning the repository, editing env files, and running compose commands
- Online shared demo is described as only for experiencing the product shape
Enclave at a glance
- Type
- Open-source project
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Open source
- Yes · Source code
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 6, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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Enclave FAQ
What is needed to start my own world?
Docker and a DeepSeek API key or another OpenAI-compatible gateway. Clone the repository, copy api/.env.example to api/.env, add the API key and ADMIN_SECRET, then run docker compose up and open http://localhost.
How many people share one world instance?
One real user per independent instance; first startup runs a migration that sets that user as the owner.
Is there a hosted demo to try first?
Yes, a shared world is listed for experiencing the product shape at http://1gw06751dd053.vicp.fun/.
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