A companion system built for continuity and user control

Step 1

Create your private account

An account keeps your characters, conversations, settings, and memory separate from every other user. Public pages explain the product; chats and account surfaces stay out of search.

Step 2

Connect a provider you control

Add a Venice key, an OpenRouter key, or both. Luminary validates the keys, reads the models available to them, and lets you choose a provider model for new conversations.

Read the BYOK setup and safety guide.

Step 3

Shape the character and scene

Character identity can include a name, description, personality, scenario, writing style, lore, relationship mode, tone, opening message, and model controls. Rooms provide current situational context without automatically forcing an activity.

Step 4

Start a conversation with context

Each reply can use the character definition, current room, recent messages, a rolling summary, manual notes, and relevant memory. Context depth controls how much recent conversation is included.

Step 5

Choose what should persist

Memory can remain inside one chat or, when cross-chat memory is enabled, support later conversations with the same character. Automatic extraction can save a small set of durable facts after replies; entries remain editable and deletable.

See exactly how memory and privacy controls work.

Step 6

Keep an exit path

You can export account chat data, delete individual messages and memories, clear chat history and memory together, remove provider keys, or permanently delete the account and its stored data.