Otaku is an attempt to build a terminal alternative to SillyTavern (ST), with a focus on: - transparency about what is sent to the LLM (the `/context` command), - automatic incremental summaries that replace the middle of the chat to save context space (browse and edit them with the `/lore` command), - automatic character extraction from the chat (the `/cast` command), - minimal to no under-the-hood prompt injection.InstallOtaku is free and open source (MIT). Install it with uv — `uv tool install otaku` — or with Homebrew: `brew install enclavum/tap/otaku`.Get startedOn first start, you choose a provider and a model: otaku automatically detects local installations of Ollama, oMLX, LM Studio, llama.cpp, and KoboldCpp and lets you pick from their models. Cloud providers (OpenRouter, NanoGPT) are added right there in the picker — enter an API key and their catalogs appear. After you've chosen, you land at the prompt. If nothing is running yet, otaku opens anyway — pick a model later with ...