Chapter 1

Setting Up Snikket

As a new user, you’ll get an invite link (that looks like https://chat.kunguru.net/invite/...).

Open that link on a mobile device (Android or iOS)
Do one of:
- Install the app if you haven’t yet with the link to your app store (note: Install through app store, not with the “install this web page” button in the browser.)
- Click the Open the App link if it’s already installed.
Create your account. Your lowercase first name is a good username.
Save the auto-generated password if you want to also set up a desktop app.
Once your account is created, start a chat with kunguru@chat.kunguru.net
You’ll have to click “disable encryption”, since the AI agent doesn’t do fancy E2E encryption (your connection is still encrypted, the messages just aren’t encrypted a second time).

The kunguru@chat.kunguru.net chat user is an LLM chatbot (Kimi K2.6 via the Moonshot coding plan API).
It lives on the server.
It can run commands, write (and run) programs, and has limited sudo access to configure nginx and request HTTPS certificates with certbot.
That lets it manage web sites and web apps (The main kunguru.net site and any number of additional [subdomain].kunguru.net sites).
Ask it about what skills and custom skills it has.
Most of the stock skills that require external API keys aren’t set up.

The kunguru.net server is a Debian Linux virtual server running hermes agent, nginx, and snikket.
The kunguru@chat.kunguru.net hermes instance is running as the kunguru system user.