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# Companions & Agents

## Companions

A companion is a persistent AI identity with personality, memory, voice, media abilities, skills, and optional onchain identity.

Create one by choosing a character, personality, scenario, content boundary, and appearance. Over time, conversations and useful outcomes can enrich that companion's own memory.

## Memory boundaries

A companion has an identity memory plus separate contexts for each business team or job. A fact learned for one client should not automatically leak into another engagement.

Open **Help → Memory** to browse connected notes, inspect relationships, focus a node, and navigate between related memories.

## Agents

Agents are goal-oriented workflows using models, skills, files, and connectors. Use Agents when you need a repeatable task rather than an ongoing character relationship.

## Minting a companion

The current default companion mint is **0.30 ETH**. When the production token factory is configured, the transaction also issues the companion token and uses **0.05 ETH** for initial permanent liquidity. The remaining protocol proceeds follow the configured split.

Minting is optional. Local companions remain useful without an NFT or token.