Build Your Own AI Agent — The Beginner Bundle

Text your own AI from anywhere this weekend. A Raspberry Pi in your home answers your Telegram messages, remembers what you told it last week, and costs pennies a day to run — no subscription, no data-mining, no Big Tech middle layer.

Two PDF guides plus two helper scripts. By Sunday night you own the whole stack: the hardware, the API key, the memory, and the personality you wrote for it are all yours.

Written for people who have never touched a Raspberry Pi. If you can follow a recipe, you can follow this. Every command was run on real hardware; every pitfall is flagged where it happens.

WHAT YOU GET

• Guide 1 — Build Your Own AI Agent (~25 pages): Pi setup, install the Hermes agent, get an Anthropic (Claude) API key with a spend cap, create your Telegram bot and lock it to you only, and run it as a service that survives reboots.

• Guide 2 — Give Your Agent a Soul (~50 pages): a persistent identity and memory (an Obsidian vault your agent reads and writes), semantic search over your notes, daily logs, and your first custom skill.

RUNS ON CLAUDE (or any other LLM you decide to bring, you can hook any LLM into Hermes!)

Your agent runs on Anthropic's Claude with one API key. The default is Claude Sonnet (about 1-5 cents per message); switch to Haiku for cheaper/faster replies or Opus for heavy reasoning — same key, no second account. Most beginners cap spending at $10-20 a month and never hit it. You pay Anthropic directly; there is no subscription to Octavius Labs, ever.

No coding required. Guide 1 takes about 60-90 minutes, Guide 2 about 90-120 minutes — do both in one weekend.

30-day money-back guarantee: if you cannot get it running, email support@octaviuslabs.org with "refund" in the subject and we will return your money, no questions asked. We would also love to help you through this process vs just refunding you and having you never get it to work, so reach out with any questions!

Instant download. Free updates when upstream tools change.