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What Is Johnny5?

Johnny5 is Coder1’s built-in AI assistant — a conversational Claude-powered assistant that lives in the IDE sidebar. Unlike a standard chat interface, Johnny5 has persistent memory across sessions, can execute autonomous tasks, and learns your workflows over time.
Johnny5 is accessible from the Johnny5 tab in the IDE sidebar. No bridge required — it connects through Coder1’s servers using your account.

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Key Capabilities

Long-Term Memory

Johnny5 remembers facts, preferences, and context across sessions. Tell it once, it knows forever.

Autonomous Tasks

Give Johnny5 a goal and it will work through it step-by-step, running code and researching as needed.

Custom Skills

Build reusable skills for Johnny5 — repeatable workflows it can execute on demand.

Living Files

Attach files that Johnny5 always has access to — project context, style guides, business rules.

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Use Cases

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Second Brain

Turn Johnny5 into a personal knowledge system. Text it anything you want to remember — links, ideas, tasks, book notes. Search and browse everything later from the Johnny5 interface. 
"Remember that I want to read 'The Pragmatic Programmer'"
"Save this link: [URL] — good reference for JWT auth"
"What links have I saved about authentication?"

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Morning Brief

Have Johnny5 prepare a personalized daily briefing — top news, content ideas, your task list, and proactive suggestions for what it can handle for you. 
"Set up a daily morning brief at 8 AM with top AI news,
 3 content ideas for my channel, and my tasks for today"

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Goal-Driven Autonomous Tasks

Share your goals with Johnny5, and it will proactively generate and complete tasks that move you toward them — research, drafts, code improvements, competitor analysis. 
"Here are my goals for this quarter: [goals]
 Every morning, generate 4-5 tasks you can complete for me
 and start working on the highest priority one."

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Market Research

Research what people are discussing on Reddit and X about any topic — find pain points, opportunities, and trends. 
"Research challenges people have with AI coding assistants
 from the last 30 days. Find the top pain points and
 suggest product opportunities."

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Content Factory

Set up a multi-agent pipeline: one agent researches trending topics, another writes video scripts, another generates thumbnail concepts. Johnny5 coordinates the workflow and posts results to your preferred channel.

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Mission Control

Replace third-party apps with custom-built tools integrated with Johnny5’s memory — a unified calendar, task manager, notes, and metrics dashboard all in one place.

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Getting Started

Start a conversation in the Johnny5 tab: 
"Hi! I'm Mike. I'm building Coder1 IDE —
 an agentic web IDE for Claude Code users."
Johnny5 will remember this context across all future sessions. Give it goals: 
"My main goals are to grow Coder1's user base,
 ship new features weekly, and create content
 about Claude Code for my YouTube channel."
Ask it to do things: 
"Draft a Twitter thread announcing our new Johnny5 memory feature"
"Research our top competitors and summarize their key differentiators"
"Help me plan this week's sprint"

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Memory & Privacy

Johnny5 stores memories in your account’s private database. Memories are:
  • Only visible to you
  • Used to personalize every response
  • Manageable via /memory commands in the chat
/memory list          # See all stored memories
/memory delete [id]   # Delete a specific memory
/memory clear         # Clear all memories (use with caution)