# Lauki - full reference

> Lauki is a messaging app with a mind of its own. You chat with friends, family and groups like any messenger, and Lauki, an AI assistant who lives in the app, takes care of the rest when you talk to him.

Short version: https://lauki.chat/llms.txt

## What Lauki is

Lauki is a messenger for iPhone, Android and the web. Direct chats, group chats, photos, videos, voice notes and calls work the way they do in any messenger. The difference is Lauki himself: an AI account that sits in the app as a contact. Write to him in your direct chat, or tag @lauki, reply to him or say his name in any other chat, and he answers, looks things up, brings back an earlier message, or gets a task done.

Sign in with your phone number. A computer signs in by showing a QR code your phone scans and approves.

## When Lauki reads a message

- Your direct chat with Lauki: he reads everything you send him.
- Any other chat: he opens a message only when someone tags @lauki, replies to him or says his name, plus a handful of messages just before it for context, or when you ask him to bring something back.
- Groups: the chat shows a notice when Lauki is turned on, and members can turn him off from the group's settings.

## Privacy and security (verbatim from https://lauki.chat/privacy)

The Lauki app is end-to-end encrypted.

"A message is sealed on your device before it leaves; our servers relay bytes they cannot open, and the keys live on the devices in the chat. The one key on our side that opens a message is Lauki's own, held so he, the assistant, can answer you. Every open under his key is logged and shown to you in the chat. No person at the company reads your messages."

"Lauki's AI providers keep nothing: zero data retention — what you send is not stored by them and not used to train their models."

"The one thing not sealed this way. Lauki is his own entity. The notes and memory he keeps about you live in a private container of his own, outside the chat database. As of today our admins can access that container. Ask him and he will tell you what he holds, or forget it."

"Every open of a message or file on the server writes one line: who asked, which chat, why, when. The table refuses edits and deletes, so the record exists before the reader finishes reading, and nobody can tidy it up."

The full page, with how each claim is tested, is at https://lauki.chat/privacy (same page at https://lauki.chat/security).

## Your data

- Download everything: Settings, then Download my data, gives you one file with your profile, chats and every message you can see.
- Delete everything: deleting your account wipes your keys, sessions, devices and identity. What Lauki remembers about you is deleted with the account.
- Memory: what Lauki holds about you is shown in the app, read only, under Settings. Changing or clearing it goes through him.

## Build on Lauki

The Lauki API lets you build your own Lauki client with a personal API key: https://lauki.chat/docs

## Key pages

- [Lauki](https://lauki.chat/): the app
- [Privacy & Security](https://lauki.chat/privacy): storage, who can read what, the open log
- [Support](https://lauki.chat/support): contact (hi@lauki.ai), reporting, deleting your account
- [Terms](https://lauki.chat/terms): terms of use
- [Lauki API](https://lauki.chat/docs): personal API keys

## Get the app

- [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/lauki/id6797858788)
- [Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.upsurge.laukichat)
- Web: https://lauki.chat

## Contact

hi@lauki.ai