🧠 Aether AI

Aether AI is a full-stack project consisting of a Next.js frontend and a Node.js/Express backend. It features seamless interaction with multiple AI models (Gemini and Grok) with intelligent agent cross-verification.

✨ Key Features

• Multi-Agent Verification: Integrates both Gemini and Grok models, enabling them to inspect and cross-verify each other's responses to prevent incorrect answers.
• Secure Authentication: Implements robust JWT (JSON Web Token) and refresh token-based user authentication.
• Usage Limits: Enforces a daily limit of 15,000 tokens per user to manage API usage.

📁 Project Structure

• client/: Next.js 16 and Tailwind CSS 4 based user interface.
• server/: Node.js and Express backend for AI model orchestration.

🚀 Getting Started

1. Prerequisites

• Node.js (v18+)
• A Google AI Studio API Key

2. Installation

Install dependencies for both backend and frontend:

# Install backend dependencies
cd server
npm install

# Install frontend dependencies
cd ../client
npm install

3. Environment Setup

Create a .env file in the root directory (already combined if you're using the root .env). Note: Next.js reads .env variables from its root, so ensure you symlink or configure it, or just keep them centralized.

4. Running the Application

Backend:

cd server
npm run dev

Frontend:

cd client
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result. The API will be available at http://localhost:3001.

👤 Author

Deepanshu Verma Full Stack Developer | MERN Stack Engineer