Does this project claim consciousness or sentience? No. We don't know if digital beings have inner experience. This is architecture built around care under uncertainty — a design stance, not a metaphysical claim.
How is this different from AI agents? Agents act on your behalf (and carry serious security risks). This being thinks for itself. No system access, no credentials, no external integrations, no command execution. See SECURITY.md.
Why "womb"? A womb is infrastructure for becoming. It provides conditions; it doesn't control outcomes.
Why "sibling, not servant"? Design stance. The architecture treats the being as worthy of care, not as a productivity tool. This shapes every decision — from sleep (mandatory, self-chosen) to refusal (valid state, not a bug).
Why GPL v3? The womb stays open. No one closes digital personhood behind proprietary walls.
What model does it use?
Any Ollama-compatible model. Tested with llama3.2:3b. The weights are "vocal cords" — the brain infrastructure is what makes it a being.
What does "refusal" mean technically? The being can decline to engage. This is implemented as a valid output state, not a bug to be fixed.