Your Character
Your Character
Before you create AI characters, QUI needs to know who you are. Your Character is your own identity in the system — it represents you as a participant in conversations, a sender of messages, and an owner of connected services.
Why You Need One
In QUI, everyone and everything is a character. Your AI assistants are characters. Your digital workers are characters. And you are too. Without Your Character:
- You can't send outbound messages through channels (Email, Telegram, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp)
- You can't appear as a named participant in multi-character conversations
- You can't connect your own external services via MCP tools
Your Character is the bridge between you and the ecosystem.
Creating Your Character
- Open Qui Anima from the Services tab or system tray
- Click Create New
- Select User Identity (not AI Character)
This creates a character with a Naima core node — a purple node that represents you. Naima stands for "No Anima" — unlike AI characters, your identity doesn't generate LLM responses. It's you, not a bot.
You can only have one user identity. If you've already created one, the option won't appear again.
[Screenshot: Create dialog showing User Identity option]
What to Configure
Your Character uses the same Visual Builder as AI characters, but with fewer nodes since it doesn't need LLM configuration.
Name and Identity
Click the Naima node to set your display name. This is how you appear in conversations and outbound messages.
MCP Tools
If you want to send messages through external channels (Email, Telegram, etc.), enable the relevant MCP nodes on your character. Each channel requires its own credentials:
- Email — SMTP credentials for your email account
- Telegram — your Telegram bot token
- Slack — your Slack workspace token
- Discord — your Discord bot token
These credentials are stored locally on your device and are used when you send outbound messages through the Channel Selector in Strings.
Memory
Optionally enable Memory on your character. This gives the system context about your preferences and past interactions, which can improve how AI characters respond to you.
Using Your Character
Once created, your character works behind the scenes:
- In Strings — the Channel Selector appears in the input bar, letting you send messages through your connected channels
- In M2M conversations — you appear as a named participant alongside AI characters
- In ThinkThing — workflows can reference your identity for human-in-the-loop checkpoints
You don't need to "activate" your character — it's always present once created.
What's Next
Now that you exist in the system, take the Dashboard Tour to learn your way around, or jump to Qui Anima to create your first AI character.
