An AI That Actually Knows You: 21 Days of Questions That Shift Your Perspective

The project is called 21-day-self-interview and it's open source on GitHub. The idea is elegant in its simplicity: an AI acts as an existential-psychology counselor that poses three questions every evening, designed to make you actually think about who you are and what you're doing. They're not random prompts — they evolve based on your previous answers, creating a conversation that shifts over time.

What makes it different from a standard chatbot is contextual memory. The AI doesn't forget: it tracks what you said in previous days and uses it to reflect your thoughts back at you. It's like having a therapist who reads your journals and says 'look what you wrote three days ago, I don't think much has changed'.

Technically, it works as a Hermes Agent skill — meaning it slots into a larger, modular framework. It's available in Chinese and English, because the creator understood that self-reflection is universal, just the languages differ. Concrete impact? Twenty-one days of confronting yourself, at your own pace, without the pressure of a paid therapy session (which costs, and plenty).

The beauty is in the contrast: while most AI projects promise to solve your problems, this one doesn't. It asks questions, listens, remembers. It's passive in the best way — the resolution comes from you, not the algorithm. This is the kind of tool that actually serves the mind, not just productivity.

Better yet: an existential counselor who knows you is rare. One that costs zero and lives in your terminal is even rarer. Of course it's open source.