# Athena

> A voice-first AI companion that lives on your cursor

- Page: https://www.whatwemade.app/p/athena
- What it is: Desktop app (also AI agent), for productivity, also learning
- Made by: [Sayantan](https://www.whatwemade.app/u/sayantan-chatterjee)
- Run it yourself: get the code and run your own copy
- Code: https://github.com/29sayantanc/Athena (no license file, 0 stars)
- Languages: English
- Wants contributors
- Tags: voice, windows, assistant, screen, automation
- Upvotes: 2, comments: 0

## About

Athena is a voice-first AI companion for Windows. Hold a key and ask about anything on your screen. It sees what you see, answers out loud, points things out with highlights and arrows, and walks you through software you don't know. It can also use your mouse and keyboard to get things done, and anything that sends, deletes, buys or submits waits for your approval unless you already asked for it.

Speech recognition and the voice run on your own machine. The model runs on a private cloud provider such as Venice, which is recommended, or locally through LM Studio or Ollama. Screenshots and questions go only to the model provider you choose. Screenshots are kept locally and deleted after 7 days, and API keys are encrypted with Windows DPAPI.

It is built with an Electron shell for the tray, cursor overlay and popup, and a Python core that handles hotkeys, screen capture, Windows UI Automation and the agent loop. Requires Windows 10 (2004 or later) or Windows 11, Python 3.11 and Node.js 20 or later.

## How it was made

- Claude Code, 40% of the work
- Claude, 20% of the work
- Stack: Python

Shared on WhatWeMade: https://www.whatwemade.app/p/athena