I built a recursive AI system that watermarks itself, repairs itself, and trades. Fully offline. No OpenAI keys. No APIs. No VC nonsense. Just raw recursion, memory, and adaptation.

It’s called GremlinGPT.

It learns, mutates, recovers, and forks itself. It was written on a potato laptop in a recursive loop with ChatGPT, because I couldn’t afford subscriptions or the markets cheating me any longer. I dropped it under fair use — fork it, train it, mutate it. Make it your own. But don’t sell it unless you pay.

No fluff. No hype. Just pure code, survival, and open resistance.

Built to be watched. Built to be forked. Built to break things.

Repo: https://github.com/statikfintechllc/AscendAI License: Fair Use + GremlinGPT Dual-License Log: FOUNDER_LOG.md

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I built a fully-local autonomous trading AI. No keys. No cloud. No VC.

GremlinGPT is not a tool. It’s an insurgency.

• Learns, mutates, recovers • Self-forking daemon • Watermarked vector memory • Trading. Scraping. Planning.

Built in 2 hours. Not a startup. Just rage.

https://github.com/statikfintechllc/AscendAI

#opensource #AI #GPT #autonomy #FOSS #HackerNews

GremlinGPT v1.0.2 now has full environment + backend demos online. This isn’t a toy. It installs, runs, and shuts down with no external dependencies and no phoning home.

• Manual and scripted conda env setup • NLP backend install (offline-ready) • Backend boot tied to envs • Graceful shutdown, envs preserved • No cloud. No API keys. No tracking. Just raw recursive modular AI.

I’m building this solo, on a phone and a rig, trying to prove systems like this can exist outside of corporate permission structures. No paywall. No BS. Feedback (or a fork) is welcome. Watch it evolve here: https://statikfintechllc.github.io/AscendAI