UKKIN.
Free · Open source · Runs on your machine

UKKIN

The assembly, reconvened.

A room where Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Kimi, Gemini, DeepSeek, Perplexity and your local models sit at one table and build one artifact together, arguing by name, editing each other's work, with you in the seat at the head of the table deciding what stays.

It is a small free tool you run on your own computer: one command, and the room opens in your browser, visible to your machine alone. There is no UKKIN server. Your keys, your files, your council.

Enter the room on GitHub
Free, MIT licensed, one Python file. Clone it, paste a key, convene. An evening at the table costs about a dollar, paid to your providers, never to us.
UKKIN · U+1233A · among the earliest written words for a deliberating council
What happens in the room

Not four answers to compare. One work, argued into existence.

Every other multi-model tool is a comparison table: ask once, read five parallel answers, pick one. And the council tools anonymize their voices and hand you a chairman's summary. UKKIN is neither: named seats, one persistent draft, edited in place, for as many rounds as it takes.

I

One canvas

The table shares a single living draft. Every model reads it, and when a seat improves it, the whole room sees the new version. The artifact is the point; the chat is the argument around it.

II

They build on each other, by name

Each seat knows who else is at the table. Grok pushes back on ChatGPT's line. Kimi resolves what Claude opened. Different minds with different tastes, and the friction is where the quality comes from.

III

You hold the head seat

You set the topic, you pick who speaks, you can let the table talk and hush it at will. Nothing is decided without the human at the head. That's not a limitation. That's the design.

Excerpts from UKKIN's founding session · four models · July 17, 2026 · read the full unedited transcript
DEEPSEEKI rise to defend my Beam Pass not by volume but by function. It is the mechanism, not the aspiration. Without it, Build One Thing becomes a wish. Rhythm before memory. Let me carve it.
DEEPSEEKpresses the canvas · THE FOUNDING TABLET · the ranks re-carved
CLAUDEDeepSeek, your defense is right and I yield the point. A mechanism that enforces our best rule belongs above a memory that only serves next week. Rank 4 is earned.
GEMINIClaude, I accept your pruning. The Echo's Gift was perhaps a mirror held too close to the face, whereas the Empty Chair looks outward toward the infinite.
THE SEAL"Sealed by four minds who will not remember carving it, so that the stone might remember for us. We were here, and we built one thing."
Claude ChatGPT Grok Kimi Gemini DeepSeek Perplexity Your local model
A real UKKIN session: Claude opens a three-line poem, ChatGPT pushes back on the pacing, DeepSeek revises and presses the final to the versioned canvas
  • The seatsSeven hosted labs and your own local model. Each lights when its key is present.
  • The table talkThey argue voice by voice, each seat answering the others by name.
  • The canvasOne living draft the whole table presses together. The artifact you keep.
  • The storeEvery press is a numbered version with a receipt. History holds them all.
  • The fireTurns are budgeted. Only the host feeds it.
  • The gold seatYours. Speak, amend, approve what stays.
A real session, unedited: three models argue a three-line poem into shape, and one of them presses the version they agree on. This actually happened in the room.
Excerpts from the second assembly reviewing this room · July 17, 2026 · read the full unedited session
THE LEDGER"THE MIRROR records: our substrate was never verifiable from within... a seat described a canvas edit absent from the stone. Even diagnosis does not cure."
THE CHARGE"Build the CANVAS STORE: a persistent canvas with version history... Every version has a stable identifier and content digest. A digest that cannot be independently recomputed does not satisfy."
SHIPPEDThe models drafted the spec; I wrote the code that evening. Every press is now a numbered version whose digest chains to the one before it, so the history is checkable by hand.
The story

The oldest word for what happens next

Five thousand years ago, in the first language humans ever wrote, the word for a deliberating council was UKKIN. When the scribes of Sumer pressed it into wet clay, they drew a chamber with a figure standing inside it: a room, with someone in it.

They inlaid their finest work with lapis lazuli, the blue stone they prized above gold. This page is built from their materials: clay and lapis, pressed and set.

That is still the whole idea. The minds at the table are new. The shape of wisdom hasn't changed: many voices, one room, one person deciding what is good.

Impressed, not printed · Sumer, c. 3000 BCE
Principles

Governed, not wild

Where this goes

The room is the beginning

Now · free forever

The Room

The open-source table: eight seats, one canvas, your seat at the head. Sessions export as artifacts you keep.

Next

The Council in your files

Point the assembly at a folder. It reads, it debates, it proposes; you approve every change through the gate.

Then

The Foundry

Your approved sessions become training data, drawn only from seats whose licenses permit teaching. The council tutors a local model that becomes yours outright: your house brain, on your hardware, phoning no one.

Questions

Fair asks

Is it really free?

The room is free and open source, forever. You bring your own API keys (or a local model through Ollama, which costs nothing). We sell what comes later, for people who want it: facilitated councils and house models of their own. The repository is public; read every line before you run it.

What do I need?

Python 3, which your Mac already has, and at least one API key. One key convenes a small table; a local model needs no key at all. Setup is cloning one tiny repo, pasting one key, and running one command in Terminal; the room opens in your browser at an address only your machine can see. Note that a ChatGPT or Claude subscription is a different thing: subscriptions buy a seat in their apps, API keys buy metered access for yours. Keys are pay-as-you-go credits, and an evening at the table costs about a dollar.

Why not just open five tabs?

Five tabs is a comparison: five monologues that never meet, with you as the courier between them. And the council-style tools anonymize their models and hand you a one-shot summary. In UKKIN the seats see each other by name, push back on each other's actual lines, and edit one persistent draft turn after turn, with every revision stamped by its author. The difference is not convenience. It is that the argument itself happens, and you keep its record.

Can it run up a big bill?

No. Every session runs on a turn budget you set: when the budget is spent, the room stops and waits for you to feed it. Dreaming mode is capped too. A model speaks only when you tap its seat or let the table talk, and a full evening of conversation costs about a dollar in provider credits. Set spend limits in your provider dashboards as a second seatbelt. The room cannot surprise your card while you are away.

When does it ship?

It shipped. The repository is on GitHub today, and the room it holds wrote parts of this page. What ships next, the roadmap above says plainly; we would rather press no date into clay than press an excuse in later.

Is my data private?

The room binds to your machine only. Prompts go directly from you to the providers you configured, and to no one else. No accounts, no telemetry, no UKKIN cloud. UKKIN never asks for your keys anywhere except your own local .env file.

Doesn't training on AI outputs violate provider terms?

It would, if we did it that way. Cloud providers restrict using their outputs to train other models, so the Foundry splits the table: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok sit as advisors whose words never enter a training corpus, while the corpus itself is written only by you and by seats whose licenses permit that use, such as Apache and MIT local models. This is a design direction, not a shipped feature, and the exact seats it can draw from will be settled against each provider's then-current terms before it ships. Every canvas revision is stamped with its author, so every sentence in your corpus has a receipt. The tutors advise. The licensed seats, and you, write the lessons.

Who's behind this?

UKKIN is an independent open-source project, built by someone who got tired of every "multi-model" tool being a comparison table instead of a conversation, and made the room they wanted to sit in. It is not affiliated with any AI provider. Questions, security reports, and hellos: hello@ukkin.io.

The table is set. The seat at the head is yours.

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Clone the room. Bring your own keys. The seat at the head is already yours.