jan/docs/docs/specs/jan.md

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Jan: a "global" assistant

Jan ships with a default assistant "Jan" that lets users chat with any open source model out-of-the-box.

This assistant is defined in /jan. It is a generic assistant to illustrate power of Jan. In the future, it will support additional features e.g. multi-assistant conversations

• Your Assistant "Jan" lets you pick any model that is in the root /models folder
• Right panel: pick LLM model and set model parameters
• Jan’s threads will be at root level
• model.json will reflect model chosen for that session
• Be able to “add” other assistants in the future
• Jan’s files will be at thread level
• Jan is not a persistent memory assistant