# The Catalyst

AI mentor prototype with persistent memory, goal tracking, daily reflection rituals, and model fallbacks.

Web page: /projects/the-catalyst

- From: Independent
- Started: 2025-09
- Ended: 2026-06
- Significance: standard
- Tags: python, fastapi, ai, productivity
- pause: 2025-11
- restart: 2026-06

## Overview

The Catalyst explores how a mentor can retain context across conversations and connect daily reflections to a longer-term goal.

## Process

Short-term context and synthesized long-term memory inform different mentoring modes. Function calls update goals, logs, and streaks; a CLōD model path falls back to Gemini through LiteLLM. The interface displays ritual history and momentum statistics.

## Result

Implemented a locally runnable mentoring application with documented retry, quota, and fallback behavior.

## Gallery

![The Catalyst interface with a generic project goal and an example mentoring conversation.](/assets/tab-panels/the-catalyst.webp)

## Links

* [GitHub](https://github.com/Toricane/TheCatalyst)

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