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Athen
Universal AI Agent
Arc Timeline
Settings
LLM Providers
Configure the AI models Athen uses. Changes take effect after restarting the app.
Memory & Embeddings
Configure how Athen processes and remembers information.
Auto-detects the best available provider for generating embeddings.
Agent Profiles
Specialists that handle different kinds of work. Built-ins ship with Athen and can be cloned to customize. Your own profiles can be edited or deleted freely.
Tools (MCP)
Toggle which Model Context Protocol servers Athen can use. Enabled tools become available to the agent on the next turn — no restart needed.
Shell Toolbox
Persistent Python and Node packages the agent installed for itself under ~/.athen/toolbox. PYTHONPATH and PATH are auto-injected into every shell command, so anything listed here is importable/runnable without further configuration. The agent asks for permission before installing.
Email Monitor
Connect your email to let Athen monitor and act on incoming messages.
For Gmail, use an App Password. Your regular password won't work with 2FA.
Comma-separated list of IMAP folders.
Only process emails newer than this.
Outbound (SMTP) — Sending Email
Configure the same account for sending. Athen always asks before sending each email.
587 for STARTTLS (default), 465 for implicit TLS.
Usually the same as your email address.
Same app password works for both IMAP and SMTP on most providers.
Leave unchecked for STARTTLS on port 587.
What recipients see. Plain "alex@example.com" or "Alex <alex@example.com>" both work.
Telegram Bot
Create a bot via @BotFather on Telegram, then paste the token here.
Messages from this ID get lowest risk. Send /start to @userinfobot to find yours.
Only process messages from these chats. Leave empty to accept all.
Web Search
Athen uses Brave first, falls back to Tavily, and only drops to keyless DuckDuckGo when both are exhausted. Either or both keys are optional — leave them blank to rely on the DDG fallback.
2,000 free queries/month. Sign up at api.search.brave.com.
~1,000 free queries/month, answer-ready snippets. Sign up at tavily.com.
Notifications
Configure how Athen contacts you for important events and approvals.
Order in which channels are tried. First channel is preferred.
Wait this long before trying the next channel when no response.
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Security
Standard risk evaluation. The agent asks for approval on risky actions.
Permissions
Directories Athen can access without asking. Global grants apply to every conversation; arc grants only apply to the current arc.
Global grants
No global grants yet.
Arc grants (current conversation)
No grants for this arc.
Contacts
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No contacts yet.
Contacts are automatically created when Athen receives messages from new senders.
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Notifications
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