Blog
Notes from the team.
Product updates, engineering notes, and what we're learning building a personal AI agent.
The MDX-loader bug that shipped for months
How a single-character typo (singular vs plural directory names) silently 404ed every MDX-backed dynamic route on niyra.ai for months — and the small fix that brought it all back.
engineering postmortembug fixNext.js MDXsilent failuresWhy personal AI actually needs memory
A chat assistant that forgets is just a search box that talks. The case for durable, structured memory in personal AI — and the specific design choices behind Niyra's three-layer memory.
AI memorypersonal AIlong-term contextAI assistant designBYOK and the economics of personal AI
When BYOK pays off, when subscription credits do, and why bundling Opus-tier reasoning into a flat plan would price everyone out for the few hours of premium work they actually need.
BYOKAI pricingpersonal AI costClaude Opus pricingShipping MCP server mode — Niyra as a tool other agents can use
Niyra is a client (calling 55+ tools) and now also a server (Claude Desktop, Cursor, any MCP-aware client can call her). Why the symmetric design matters for the next year of agentic interop.
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Why a personal AI assistant built outside the US/Europe market gap — GST, RC/PUC, EMI, Razorpay UPI, Hinglish voice — is the right answer for a third of the world that existing AI tools serve poorly.
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