The agent has access to all of his indexed archive of learnings and essays from his website. Simple RAG tools often surface paraphrased ideas instead of exact quotes from Naval’s original writing. I built this because I was tired of manually searching through every essay to find the precise passages and real context behind his thinking.

This agent can search, cite, and retrieve Naval’s actual words directly from the source. It is free and open source.

You can check the code here: https://github.com/nozomio-labs/naval-ai

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* Nia gives coding agents accurate context by indexing entire codebases, documentation, and packages. It fixes hallucinations by letting agents retrieve real source information instead of guessing. Developers ship faster because AI can read and understand their actual project. This is a different use case of Nia but apparently it also works.

You can chat with it and ask any question because it has access to Nia’s knowledge base, which indexed all of his personal essays. The agent is able to call multiple tools that directly use Nia’s API:

• NiaWebSearch - searches the web • searchEssays - semantic search over all essays • browseEssays - shows the full tree of essays • listDirectory - lists essays in a path • readEssay - reads full essay content • grepEssays - regex pattern search • getSourceContent - retrieves full source by identifier

Models: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5 moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking xai/grok-4-fast-reasoning alibaba/qwen3-vl-thinking

It’s fully free and open source.

Try it: https://www.paulgraham-nia.com/ Code: https://github.com/nozomio-labs/paulgraham-ai

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*Why did I build Nozomio?*

We’re entering the age of AI agents and automated workflows, which means developers now have incredible potential at their fingertips—if they can navigate and harness these tools effectively. I saw a huge gap in accessible, up-to-date resources that not only teach modern web development but also show how to integrate AI into real-world projects. My goal with Nozomio is to help developers of all skill levels learn faster, build better products, and thrive in this new tech landscape.

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I’d love to hear your thoughts on Nozomio. Any feedback or suggestions on how we can improve Nozomio to better serve learners would be greatly appreciated. Looking forward to your insights!

Thanks!

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