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Personal AI Infrastructure Overview: What PAI Is · Principles · Features Get Started: Installation · Releases · Packs Resources: FAQ · Roadmap · Community · Contributing Watch the full PAI walkthrough | Read: The Real Internet of Things

个人 AI 基础设施概览： 什么是 PAI · 原则 · 功能 快速开始： 安装 · 版本发布 · 插件包 资源： 常见问题 · 路线图 · 社区 · 贡献 观看 PAI 完整演示 | 阅读：真正的物联网 (The Real Internet of Things)

Important: PAI v5.0.0 — Life Operating System — the biggest release in PAI history. PAI is no longer “AI scaffolding” — it’s a Life Operating System with the unified Pulse daemon (Life Dashboard at localhost:31337), a DA (Digital Assistant) identity layer, Algorithm v6.3.0 (Current State → Ideal State, seven phases, classifier-driven mode + tier), the ISA primitive (universal “ideal state” articulation), 45 skills, 171 workflows, 37 hooks, and structural privacy via containment zones. v5.0.0 release notes → | All releases → One-line install: curl -sSL https://ourpai.ai/install.sh | bash Upgrading from v4.x? This is a different system, not a patch. Read the migration guide first. AI should magnify everyone—not just the top 1%.

重要提示：PAI v5.0.0 — 生活操作系统 — PAI 史上最大规模的更新。 PAI 不再仅仅是“AI 脚手架”，它现在是一个生活操作系统，包含统一的 Pulse 守护进程（位于 localhost:31337 的生活仪表盘）、DA（数字助理）身份层、算法 v6.3.0（当前状态 → 理想状态，七个阶段，分类器驱动模式 + 分层）、ISA 原语（通用的“理想状态”表达）、45 种技能、171 个工作流、37 个钩子，以及通过隔离区实现的结构化隐私保护。v5.0.0 发布说明 → | 所有版本 → 一键安装：curl -sSL https://ourpai.ai/install.sh | bash 从 v4.x 升级？这是一个全新的系统，而非补丁。请先阅读迁移指南。AI 应该赋能每一个人，而不仅仅是顶尖的 1%。

What PAI Is

PAI is a Life Operating System. It captures who you are, what you care about, and where you’re trying to go — and then helps you get there using AI that knows you. Three layers stack on top of each other:

PAI — the OS itself. Skills, memory, the Algorithm, your Telos, your identity files.
Pulse — the Life Dashboard at localhost:31337. Where you actually see your state, goals, and work.
The DA — your Digital Assistant. The voice and personality you talk to. It’s designed for individuals first, but the same architecture works for teams, companies, or any entity that wants to articulate what it’s trying to be and move toward it.

什么是 PAI

PAI 是一个生活操作系统。它捕捉你是谁、你在乎什么、你想去往何方，然后利用了解你的 AI 帮助你实现目标。它由三层架构堆叠而成：

PAI — 操作系统本身。包含技能、记忆、算法、你的目标（Telos）以及身份文件。
Pulse — 位于 localhost:31337 的生活仪表盘。你可以在这里直观地看到自己的状态、目标和工作进度。
DA — 你的数字助理。它是你交流时的声音和人格化身。它首先是为个人设计的，但同样的架构也适用于团队、公司或任何希望明确自身愿景并向其迈进的实体。

Principles

Humans first, tech second PAI puts the human at the center, not the tooling. The tech exists to improve people’s lives, not the other way around. Every design decision starts from one question: what does this do for the person running it?

原则

以人为本，技术为辅 PAI 将人置于核心，而非工具。技术的存在是为了改善人们的生活，而不是反过来。每一个设计决策都始于一个问题：这对使用者有什么帮助？

A Life OS, not an agent harness PAI captures what you care about — goals, work, relationships, health, finances — and helps you pursue your ideal state across all of it. It writes code and runs agents and does the things people associate with AI tooling, but those are capabilities in service of the larger goal. The point is your life, not the tools.

生活操作系统，而非代理工具箱 PAI 捕捉你在乎的一切——目标、工作、人际关系、健康、财务——并帮助你在所有这些领域追求理想状态。它会编写代码、运行代理并执行人们通常与 AI 工具关联的任务，但这些能力都是为了服务于更大的目标。重点是你的生活，而不是工具本身。

Ideal State drives everything The biggest unsolved problem with AI is that nobody can define what “good” or “done” actually means for a given task. PAI is built around the concept of Ideal State — specifically the transition from your current state to your ideal state — and it’s woven through every layer. The primary expression is the ISA (Ideal State Artifact). An ISA is similar to a software PRD: it captures what done looks like so you can build toward it. The difference is that an ISA is general — it works for any creative task, from design to art to philosophy to engineering to strategy. The system decomposes the ideal state into discrete ISCs (Ideal State Criteria), which populate the document and double as verification items. That’s how PAI hill-climbs toward ideal state on any kind of work.

理想状态驱动一切 AI 领域最大的未解难题在于，没人能定义对于特定任务而言，“好”或“完成”究竟意味着什么。PAI 构建于“理想状态”这一概念之上——具体来说，是从当前状态向理想状态的过渡——并且这一理念贯穿了每一层。其主要表现形式是 ISA（理想状态工件）。ISA 类似于软件开发中的 PRD（产品需求文档）：它捕捉“完成”的样子，以便你朝着目标构建。不同之处在于 ISA 是通用的——它适用于任何创造性任务，从设计、艺术到哲学、工程和战略。系统将理想状态分解为离散的 ISC（理想状态标准），这些标准填充在文档中，并兼作验证项。这就是 PAI 如何在任何类型的工作中向理想状态不断攀升。

Features

Text over opaque storage Heavy bias toward plain text and Markdown. PAI avoids SQLite, Postgres, and other opaque stores wherever possible. Everything should be transparent and parsable — by you, by your DA, by rg, by anything else. If you can’t read it with cat, we don’t want it.

功能

文本优先，拒绝不透明存储 高度偏向纯文本和 Markdown。PAI 尽可能避免使用 SQLite、Postgres 和其他不透明的存储方式。一切都应该是透明且可解析的——无论是对你、对你的 DA、对 rg（ripgrep），还是对其他任何工具。如果不能用 cat 命令读取，我们就不要它。

Context scaffolding > model The mistake most people make with AI is failing to feed it the big picture. PAI is fundamentally a system for handing the smartest models the right context — about you, about what you’re trying to accomplish, about the tools they have — so they can actually help you reach your ideal state. The model matters less than what surrounds it.

上下文脚手架 > 模型本身 大多数人在使用 AI 时犯的错误是未能提供全局视角。PAI 从根本上是一个为最智能的模型提供正确上下文的系统——关于你、关于你想完成的任务、关于它们拥有的工具——这样它们才能真正帮助你达到理想状态。模型本身的重要性远不及围绕它的上下文。

Filesystem as context, no RAG PAI has avoided RAG since June 2025. Rich text with cross-references, plus fast search like ripgrep, gives us everything people normally want from RAG — without the embedding complexity, the retrieval flakiness, or the loss of fidelity. Your filesystem is the index.

以文件系统为上下文，无需 RAG 自 2025 年 6 月起，PAI 就摒弃了 RAG（检索增强生成）。带有交叉引用的富文本，加上像 ripgrep 那样的快速搜索，提供了人们通常从 RAG 中想要的一切——同时避免了嵌入（embedding）的复杂性、检索的不稳定性以及信息保真度的损失。你的文件系统就是索引。