Vili

Vili is the GameCult Persona animation daemon.

It owns the bridge from Persona performance intent to body-motion generation. Its first backend is Kimodo on Raven, running through Docker Engine inside Ubuntu-24.04 WSL with NVIDIA GPU passthrough.

Authority

• Vili owns animation job intake, Kimodo runtime checks, generated motion artifact references, and its operator/provider surface.
• Personas and Weksa may propose performance intent, gesture prompts, and constraints.
• Kimodo owns motion synthesis.
• Future renderers own retargeting, playback, facial performance, camera, and lip sync.
• Odin discovers Vili; Odin does not own Vili's state.
• Idunn keeps Vili alive; Idunn does not own animation decisions.

Local Runtime

On Raven:

E:\Projects\Vili\scripts\restart-vili-daemon.cmd

Default compatibility endpoint:

http://10.77.0.4:8824

Important routes:

• GET /health
• GET /provider-advertisement
• GET /operator-state
• GET /eve/operator
• GET /eve/deck/providers
• WS /eve/deck/vili.animation
• GET /smoke
• POST /motion/generate

Current Blocker

Actual Kimodo generation requires a Hugging Face token with access to gated meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct. Without it, Vili can verify Kimodo and CUDA, but generation fails at model fetch.