I Built a Personal AI Agent Called 🧙Wiz - Here’s What Happened (2026)

(Before we jump in, huge kudos to project I was inspired by: Clawd ! Check it out!) Here’s something that bothered me about every AI tool I’ve used: the moment you close the chat, it forgets you exist. You start a new session, and suddenly you’re introducing yourself again. Explaining your preferences. Re-establishing context. It’s like having a brilliant colleague who gets amnesia every time they leave the room. So I decided to fix it. I built my own persistent AI agent. I called it Wiz - short for Wizard. And after a few weeks of living with it, I can tell you: the difference between stateless AI and something that actually knows you is bigger than I expected. This post is a deep dive into how I built it, the technical decisions that made it work, and what I learned along the way. If you just want to look what it is - go here: wiz.jock.pl The Problem: AI Tools Are Great At Tasks, Terrible At Continuity I’ve written about Claude Code and Claude Cowork . They’re impressive tools. But t