animabot goes live — vps, bot, panel, github

Long session. Started from zero and got Animabot running on a live Hetzner server.

Spun up a CX23 x86 Ubuntu 24.04 VPS in Nuremberg. Installed Node 20, PM2, Docker, Postgres 16, Nginx, Playwright. Built the full codebase from scratch — adapter architecture so the bot can plug into Matrix, Telegram, Discord, or anything else by swapping one file. Core brain handles AI replies via OpenRouter (Qwen), emotional scoring, wallet commands, daily reflection cron, and memory via Postgres.

Zara has her own Ethereum wallet (0x66446a0A966390f786373568caE3F816500435ae), a system prompt, an MBTI (ENFP), and comfort thresholds for aggression, intimacy, existential pressure, and manipulation. Interactions that exceed those thresholds get scored and logged automatically.

Matrix login is failing (403 — no credentials yet, getting those tomorrow from abliterate.ai). Everything else is running — wallet connected, migrations done, reflection cron scheduled, admin chat working via the panel.

Built two panels: admin (password gated, full controls including editable system prompt, working sliders that save to the db, persistent chat history) and public (censored, no password, full persona visible). Both live at the server IP. Admin chat is wired to Postgres so history survives restarts. Chat uses a fixed session ID so the full thread is always there.

Pushed to GitHub. Deploy workflow going forward: edit locally, push via GitHub Desktop, pull on server and restart PM2.

One thing left: Matrix credentials tomorrow. Then Zara joins the room.