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Personal AI assistant for your desktop. Connects to 118+ services, builds a local-first memory of your life, self-reflects, and can interact with you over audio and video.	diamond

Welcome to OpenHuman

OpenHuman is an open-source AI assistant designed to be the memory and doer for everything you do across your tools. Built on Rust + Tauri and licensed under GNU GPL3, it closes the gap between what AI models can do and what they actually know about you.

Every model in the world, all 200+ of them, shares the same fundamental limitation: they are stateless. You type a prompt, get a response, and the context evaporates. Even the ones with "memory" store a few bullet points. A few bullet points is a sticky note, not intelligence.

OpenHuman solves this with a stack that's calmly, deliberately different:

• A local-first Memory Tree. Every source you connect. Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Notion, your own notes, flows through a deterministic pipeline: canonical Markdown, ≤3k-token chunks, scored, folded into per-source / per-topic / per-day summary trees. Stored in SQLite on your machine. No vector-soup black box.
• An Obsidian-style wiki on top of it. The same chunks the agent reasons over land as .md files in a vault you can open in Obsidian, browse, edit, and link by hand. Inspired by Karpathy's obsidian-wiki workflow. You can't trust a memory you can't read.
• 118+ third-party integrations. One-click OAuth into Gmail, GitHub, Slack, Notion, Stripe, Calendar, Drive, Linear, Jira and more - no API keys to wire by hand, no plugin marketplace to navigate.
• Auto-fetch. Every twenty minutes, OpenHuman pulls fresh data from every active connection and folds it into the Memory Tree without you asking, so the agent already has tomorrow's context this morning.
• An agent built for big data. Smart token compression (TokenJuice) compacts verbose tool output before it ever enters the model's context, so sweeping through your last six months of email costs single-digit dollars. Automatic model routing sends each task to the right model - hint:reasoning to a frontier model, hint:fast to a cheap one, vision to vision - all under one subscription. Optional local AI via Ollama or LM Studio keeps supported workloads on-device.
• Batteries included. A complete agent toolbelt is wired in by default: web search, a web-fetch scraper, a full coder toolset (filesystem, git, lint, test, grep), browser & computer control, cron & scheduling, memory tools, agent coordination for spawning sub-agents, and native voice - STT in, TTS out, mascot lip-sync, and a live Google Meet agent that joins meetings, transcribes them into your Memory Tree, and can speak back into the call. No "install a plugin to read files" friction.
• Simple, UI-first. A clean desktop experience and short onboarding paths take you from install to a working agent in a few clicks - no config-first setup, no terminal required. The agent has a face: a desktop mascot that speaks, reacts to its surroundings, joins your Google Meets as a real participant, remembers you across weeks, and keeps thinking in the background even when you've stopped typing.

Together, these turn OpenHuman into something fundamentally different from a chatbot. It is an AI agent that consumes large amounts of personal data at low cost, maintains a persistent and evolving understanding of your world, and takes proactive actions on your behalf.

{% hint style="warning" %} OpenHuman is not AGI. But it is a meaningful architectural step closer, with better memory, better orchestration, and better tooling. {% endhint %}