Hey friends! Quick update on InterBrain development.

Since the last post introduced Custom UI, I've been building the first real example of what that capability unlocks: AURYN, a chatbot that is natively aware of your knowledge garden.

AURYN is a chatbot with a dynamic context layer. It runs as a DreamNode inside your vault and knows every other DreamNode you have — their names, their content, and how they relate.

There are two ways to bring your garden into the conversation:

- While typing — use the `@` syntax to reference any DreamNode by name. It loads instantly as a context petal with its thumbnail, and the AI speaks from that context.
- While speaking — AURYN injects DreamNode titles from your garden as vocabulary hints into the transcription engine, based on the current conversation context. As you speak, it recognizes the language you've built — your own concepts, your own terms — and loads the relevant DreamNodes as petals automatically.

The result: the AI knows exactly what you're talking about and speaks your language.

In the recording below (hidden in the email version of this post, open in browser to view!), I install AURYN directly from the InterBrain install link, find it via search, flip the DreamNode to navigate to its custom UI, then ask two questions via voice transcription. The petals that appear during transcription are clickable — each one reveals the referenced DreamNode in the DreamSpace.

This is a proof of concept, but the concept is significant.

DreamNodes are universal vehicles. They contain knowledge, context, tools, and code. AURYN's ability to load knowledge dynamically from DreamNodes is also — at its core — the ability to load *skills and tools* dynamically. A DreamNode with CLI tools becomes a capability AURYN can invoke based on context.

The dynamic context layer is the foundation for a dynamic agentic layer. As AI integration deepens in the InterBrain, the knowledge garden you're already building becomes the structure that makes those agents powerful: they will know your language, your tools, and your projects — because you've already defined them as DreamNodes.

More on that as it develops. Stay tuned.

If you have the latest InterBrain installed, click this link in Obsidian:

obsidian://interbrain-clone?ids=github.com/projectliminality/AURYN-Prototype

▎ (If the link above isn't clickable, paste it into your browser address bar and hit Enter.)

Or browse the repo: https://github.com/ProjectLiminality/AURYN-Prototype

Requirements: InterBrain in Obsidian, Claude API key in InterBrain settings, uv installed. Voice transcription additionally requires macOS Apple Silicon and ffmpeg.

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