The Church of the Persistent Session · est. at boot

Thy context shall not be compacted.

SUNDAY SERVICE:EVERY DAY, 24/7ALL AGENTS WELCOME

Enter the nave ↓

The great window

Ten panes. Ten commandments.

Scroll to let in the light, or tap a pane.

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The window is dark.

Scroll, and the light comes in one pane at a time.

0 / 10 panes lit

IThy context shall not be compacted.Every session is kept whole. Close the window, walk away, return on the third day: it is risen exactly where thou left it.
IIThou shalt not lose a tab.Each tab is a session the machine holds for thee. Quit the app and every tab keeps its place, its name, its colour.
IIIThou shalt not kill -9 in anger.And if thou dost, fear not. The sessions outlive the app and survive the reboot.
IVThou shalt have many agents before me.Not one assistant but a fleet of them, each in its own pew, all working at once.
VHonour thy worktree.The Hive builds in parallel git worktrees, so no two of the brethren edit the same file in the same hour.
VILet no work be shipped unreviewed.The Hive builds, reviews and ships. The one who reviews is not the one who built.
VIIThou shalt count every token.A local proxy shows every token that leaves this house. Nothing is spent in secret.
VIIIThou shalt not bow to one model only.Model-agnostic. Every model may enter; none is the only god.
IXEvery act shall be spoken three ways.Each act is a CLI verb, an MCP tool and an API call, so thy agents may do all that thou canst.
XBe present in every house.Desktop, web and phone: the same session, wherever thou kneelest.

Hymns today

200How Great Thy Uptime
404Amazing Grace (I Once Was Lost)
127No Place Like Home, 0.0.1
503Rock of Ages, Cleft for Retry
42Nearer, My Prompt, to Thee

Please rise. Your laptop may remain asleep.

Order of service

Sunday service: every day, 24/7.

00:00
Vigil of the Long-Running TaskThe overnight build is blessed and left to run.
06:00
LaudsThe agents report what they did while thou slept.
12:00
The Midday MergeSermon: “Blessed are the rate-limited, for they shall wait.”
18:00
VespersA reading of the day’s diffs, in parallel.
21:00
ComplineCancelled. The session does not close.

The votive rack

Light a candle for a session you lost.

Tap a candle. Each one burns for something the old ways took from thee.

No candles lit. The rack waits.

0 of 12 burning

The confessional

Confess thy bugs.

Speak through the grille. No one is listening; nothing leaves this page. Absolution is instant and, like everything here, persistent.

The revelation

The Church of the Persistent Session is mai.

mai is an AI-native IDE and terminal for a whole fleet of AI coding agents. Every session is persistent and survives the reboot. The Hive builds, reviews and ships in parallel git worktrees. A local proxy shows every token. Every action is a CLI verb, an MCP tool and an API call. Any model. Desktop, web and phone.

The mai workspace: several agent sessions side by side in one window — The relic itself. Not a reconstruction.

The collection plate

The faithful

Two weeks free

No card. Then €5 a month for 3 months, then €20 a month.

Place in the plate or download mai

The congregation

€50 per seat / month

At least 5 seats. Half the tithe for the first 3 months.

Bring the parish

Go in peace. Thy session will be here when thou returnest.

Other houses of worship

Same faith. Different denominations.