Spirit AI Character Engine

https://www.spiritai.com/character-engine/

Authoring toolkit + SDK for narrative designers. Tracks what each character knows, doesn't know, has witnessed; explicit handling of NPC knowledge inconsistency across sessions. Used in AR/VR and Alexa-style voice game contexts.

At a glance

Type
Author-defined character knowledge graph
Tier
T2
Created
2015 (founded 2015 by Steve Andre; London UK)
Latest release
not applicable — not OSS
License
not applicable — not OSS
GitHub
not applicable — no GitHub repo
Pricing
searched not found
Funding
searched not found

Taxonomy

storage
graph
retrieval
graph-traversal
persistence
cross-session
update
overwrite
unit
fact
governance
user-controllable
conflict
overwrite

When to use

Optimised for: character consistency + narrative continuity + low-latency

Anti-fit: not for non-character / non-narrative use cases

Pros & cons

Pros

Game-character AI focused on emotional state memory + narrative context.

Cons

Niche to interactive narrative; smaller mind-share than Inworld.

Claims & capabilities

Notable for narrative designer Emily Short's involvement.

Technical surface

API surface
searched not found
Backend storage
searched not found
Deployment
searched not found
Embedding model
searched not found
Multi-tenancy
searched not found
MCP
no MCP support advertised — vertical product, no MCP server / client integration documented
A2A
no A2A protocol support advertised — vertical product, no A2A integration documented
OpenTelemetry
no OpenTelemetry integration advertised — vendor logs/observability not publicly documented

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