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Expert AI Terminal Pro
A portable, agentic research-and-development lab on a USB drive — 5 agents, 33 tools, 200+ frontier models, persistent memory, and honest provenance baked in.
Not another LLM wrapper
An end-to-end environment that turns a language model into a disciplined, reproducible engineering team.
Multi-agent orchestration
Spin up specialist sub-agents — researcher, reviewer, writer, verifier, architect — collaborating in one session.
Deep-research pipelines
Locate, retrieve, annotate and synthesize dozens of papers with automatic provenance and BibTeX.
Provenance baked in
Every output records exactly which sources were consulted and their status: verified, unverified, or blocked.
Paper-style writing
Raw notes to LaTeX-ready sections, figures and equations — with adversarial peer-review before delivery.
Obsidian-native
One command drops a polished, cross-linked Markdown file straight into your vault.
Persistent memory
Remembers lessons and context across sessions — a research assistant that recalls what you taught it weeks ago.
File-system aware
Read local files, run code in isolated containers, spawn long-running background jobs and iterate.
Safety-first runtime
Each sub-agent runs in its own worktree with capped resources and automatic cleanup.
Complete capability map
The full arsenal — from discovery to delivery.
Research & Discovery
Deep research, literature review, arXiv/alphaXiv search, paper Q&A, code audits, multi-provider web search, URL & YouTube extraction.
Document & Data
Parse PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, CSV & images with OCR. Zotero citations. Obsidian FTS5 search & writing.
Visualization
Vega-Lite charts — bar, line, area, arc, boxplot, heatmap, faceted & layered — rendered as PNG.
Agent Orchestration
5 built-in subagents, single / chain / parallel runs, custom agents, forked context, adversarial review.
Code & Compute
Bash execution, Docker sandboxing, Modal & RunPod GPU compute, autonomous experiment loops, replication.
Writing & Delivery
Paper writing, ELI5, peer-review simulation, browser preview/export, provenance sidecars.
Memory & Continuity
Persistent facts, session search & logging, changelog, scheduled prompts, long-running Ralph loops.
Design Principles
Local-first, USB-portable, zero unconsented telemetry, 200+ switchable models, honest provenance.
Get started
Run it from the Expert AI Terminal Port on your drive.
1 · Allow the app (macOS)
Make the launcher executable:
chmod +x "Expert-AI-Terminal.command"2 · Enter the directory
Windows uses the .bat launcher; portable/USB uses Node directly:
cd /Volumes/AI/Expert-AI-Terminal\ -\ Portable
node bin/expert-ai-terminal.js model list3 · Log in to a provider
Pick a backend from the catalog:
.\Expert-AI-Terminal.bat model login
.\Expert-AI-Terminal.bat model login openrouter4 · Alias it (optional)
Add to ~/.zshrc, then source ~/.zshrc to run from anywhere:
alias expert-ai-terminal="node /Volumes/AI/Expert-AI-Terminal\ -\ Portable/bin/expert-ai-terminal.js"How to ask — the AEC knowledge base
Over 10,000 curated AEC documents: NBC 2016, IS codes, IBC, Eurocode, frontier research and the full B.Arch / M.Arch curriculum. Works the same via the AEC connector and /r in the terminal.
Ask like a heading, not a conversation
Speak the code's vocabulary
| You'd say on site | The code says |
|---|---|
| exit / escape route | means of escape, travel distance |
| coastal / near the sea | severe / very severe exposure |
| concrete cover | nominal cover to reinforcement |
| FSI / FAR | floor area ratio |
| setback | open spaces |
| earthquake design | seismic, zone factor |
NBC 2016 Table 16 nominal cover durability lands on the exact spot every time. And a "no matching documents" miss never costs a credit.200+ switchable models
Frontier American, European and Chinese models — pick per task, or let the router choose.
openrouter/free
Auto-routes your prompt to the fastest available free models — lower rate limits, more usage time.
openrouter/auto
Auto-routes to the best and fastest paid model available for your prompt.
A taste of the catalog
| Family | Examples |
|---|---|
| Anthropic | Claude Haiku 4.5 · Sonnet 4 · Opus 4.8 · Fable 5 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash / Pro · Gemini 3 Pro · Gemma 4 | |
| OpenAI | GPT-5.5 Codex · GPT-4o |
| DeepSeek | Chat · R1 · V3.1 Terminus |
| Others | Kimi K2.7 · MiniMax M2.5 · Mistral Large · Llama 3.3 · Qwen3 Coder · Grok 4.20 |