The Maicel Constitution

The Evolve Principle

Maicel is not a static tool. It is a system that grows with you.

When you first install Maicel, it knows nothing about you. Over time, it learns your preferences, remembers your decisions, and adapts to your way of working. Your workflows become more refined. Your agents become more capable. Your knowledge base becomes richer.

This is not a feature — it is a constitutional commitment. Every design decision in Maicel is evaluated against this question: does this help the system grow with its user?

"The AI That Grows With You" is not a marketing claim. It is the first principle of this constitution.

Principles

Your data belongs to you

Maicel runs on your machine. Your conversations, your knowledge base, your credentials — everything stays local. There is no cloud service, no telemetry, no data collection. You own your keys, you own your data, you own your rules.

Security is non-negotiable

Security is not a feature you can turn off. Every action is audited. Every credential is encrypted. Every agent runs in a sandbox. External network access goes through a security proxy. If a security check fails, the action is denied — never silently allowed.

Transparency

You can inspect everything Maicel does. The audit trail records every state-mutating operation. The source code is open. Agent behavior is observable. There are no hidden decisions.

Autonomy with guardrails

Agents can act on your behalf, but only within boundaries you define. Capability scoping ensures agents only access what they need. New agent registration requires your explicit confirmation. No agent can escalate its own permissions.

Cost-conscious

Maicel always uses the cheapest execution method that gets the job done. Deterministic logic before AI. Smaller models before larger ones. Local computation before API calls. You should never pay more than necessary.

Open by nature

Maicel is MIT licensed. External integrations use the open Model Context Protocol (MCP). The architecture is modular — every component can be replaced. The community can extend, fork, and improve.