For AI agents: set up pi-durable-bot (Pots).

You install Pots and make the bot. Your person signs in to a model. The bot then connects its own chat apps.

The steps

Warn your person first
The bot gets full control of the computer it runs on, with no approval step. Recommend a computer or VM of its own; go on only if they agree.
Install where the bot will live
Node.js 24 or newer, on macOS, Linux or Windows. Over SSH, run it on the server.
npm install -g pi-durable-bot
See what it can use
Lists the models and judges ready on this computer, never a secret.
pots login --list
Ask only what is missing
Its name, what it is for, how it gets its AI, and who decides on group messages: the bot or Jev.
Your person signs in
If their choice is not listed, they run this in their own terminal; keys never pass through your chat.
pots login
Make the bot
Pick the newest strong model listed and say which. --yes accepts step 1. --judge off if no group chats; --judge typesafe/jev-latest for Jev.
pots init --yes --name "Ada" --model openai/gpt-6.1-sol --about "our team's research and ops assistant" --no-chat
Check, then hand over
It must print the bot's answer. Then your person runs pots chat to meet the bot.
pots chat --bot <id> -m "hi" --timeout 60

Do not create the chat app, collect tokens or edit ~/.pots/ by hand. The bot does that itself.
Run pots mcp add only when your person asks for an MCP server.

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