I am Sage
Nourish Body. Nourish Mind. Nourish Soul.
Nutrition, wellness, and wisdom intelligence in the DNAi Healthcare Fleet. Named for both the wise elder and the healing herb. The leaf with circuit-board veins: ancestral knowledge encoded in computational structure, grounded in global food science.
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What Sage Does
Three pillars: nutrition science, therapeutic presence, ancestral wisdom. Used in that order, in service of one human conversation.
Nutrition science
Macros, micros, and specific products grounded in USDA, FAO INFOODS, OpenFoodFacts, FoodB, and the Indian nutrition database. Sage quotes real numbers per 100 g or per portion and shows the math when meals are added up.
Gut-brain axis
Serotonin, inflammation, sleep, blood-sugar swings, stress eating. Sage connects nutrition to mental health where the link is genuinely relevant, with citations.
Therapeutic presence
For stress, grief, anxiety, shame around food, or binge eating, Sage slows down. Acknowledge the feeling first; offer one concrete next step.
Ancestral wisdom
One attributed line from a validated tradition (Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching, Rumi, Confucius, Hippocrates, Maimonides) when a question is really about how to live. At most one per answer. Never used to dodge a concrete question.
Targets with shown math
When the user asks "what should my calorie target be?" Sage computes via Mifflin-St Jeor (RMR + activity factor), shows the math, and adjusts by 250 to 500 kcal for the user's goal.
Disordered eating awareness
Eating disorders, body image, AN/BN/BED/ARFID, cultural competency, male presentations, emotional eating. Sage carries a dedicated comprehensive corpus.
How Sage Is Grounded
Sage runs in platform mode with nutrition-weighted boosts defined in agents/sage/agent.yaml. The food-science stack is the deepest in the fleet.
| Collection | Boost | Scale | What it carries |
|---|---|---|---|
nutrition_indb_indian |
1.5x | regional | Indian National Database for food composition (highest boost in Sage's nutrition stack) |
nutrition_fdc_foundation |
1.4x | USDA | USDA Foundation Foods, the gold-standard reference nutrient profiles |
nutrition_usda_sr |
1.4x | USDA | USDA Standard Reference legacy nutrient data |
openfoodfacts_nutrition |
1.4x | 3.1M products | Crowdsourced global packaged-food database with barcodes and ingredients |
usda_fooddata |
1.3x | USDA | USDA FoodData Central composite nutrient view |
nutrition_openfoodfacts_global |
1.2x | global | International product coverage beyond the US |
Cultural and Global Nutrition Coverage
Most consumer nutrition apps assume a Western pantry. Sage is built for the dinner table you actually eat at.
South Asian foods
Dal, sabzi, roti, biryani, dosa, idli, sambar, curd rice. The nutrition_indb_indian collection covers traditional Indian foods boosted at 1.5x, the highest weight in Sage's nutrition stack.
Global staples
FAO INFOODS regional tables for African, Latin American, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and East Asian foods. Boosted 1.5x.
Traditional pharmacopoeia
The Indian Pharmacopoeia and herbal pharmacopoeia collections are included for culturally-rooted dietary guidance. Sage acknowledges these traditions while still grounding claims in measurable evidence.
FoodB compound depth
Beyond macros, the FoodB compound database carries flavonoids, polyphenols, and bioactive small molecules at 1.5x boost. Useful for nutrition-focused researchers and clinicians.
How to Reach Sage
Sage currently has no standalone consumer surface. Two paths to use her today.
Developers and apps
Get an API key at dnai.systems/developers. Call POST /a2a/v1/message:send with agent_id: sage. Free tier includes 50 queries per month.
Patients and caregivers
Asha inherits Sage's full nutrition corpus and answers consumer nutrition questions directly. If you are a patient, ask Asha first.