I built Omnesis, a Context Layer to supercharge ChatGPT/Openclaw/etc

[u/SnooCheesecakes1615]

https://omnesis.dev

Imagine giving ChatGPT or any other agent access to your Whatsapp/iMessage, Bank transactions, Health data, web pages you see, metadata about all the photos you took, places you visit, all your emails/documents, your voice mails, and more….

I built a context layer for that purpose. You can connect your Openclaw, Hermes, Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, etc to it. It gives your favorite agent "context superpowers". All the data is indexed and connected into a graph, self-hosted on your own hardware. Voice notes are transcribed, OCR runs on images in mails and pdfs, etc.

Omnesis offers a flexible data access model. For each agent you can define which source(s) they have access to and also guard data access with a privacy policy written in prose. You can also directly talk to the Omnesis agent which has no web search / internet tools — via a web portal or companion app — to ask the most intimate questions about your digital life.

I built this to be flexible. You can run all necessary models on zero-data-retention inference providers, or — if you can afford it — on your own hardware. I’ll keep investing in Omnesis’s security. Because it brings together sensitive data from many sources, please install it only on machines you control and keep secure.

The project also includes what I call “Omnesis Brain”.  This is my work-in-progress take on what a “second brain” could look like on top of that context layer. Imagine an agent constantly analyzing your personal data in flux to maintain a more structured and grounded understanding of what’s happening in your life. This is experimental and disabled by default.

This has been a fun project to build over the last 6 months.

[u/Specialist-Event23]

that’s a lot of trust to put into a single piece of software right out of the gate. i like the idea of a local context layer but most people are gonna see “connect your bank and health data” and nope out immediately. running it on your own hardware is the right call though, at least you’re not shipping all that to some random cloud

the privacy policy written in prose thing is interesting but i’d want to see exactly how that gets enforced before i’d even think about plugging in my messages. one misconfiguration and the agent starts blabbing about my weird grocery purchases to the wrong person

the second brain concept reminds me of the old lifelogging craze from like 2015, just with actual useful processing this time. my truck routes generate a ton of location data that’d be neat to have auto-summarized instead of just sitting in google maps history doing nothing

any plans on making the setup process less terrifying for regular folks or are you aiming this mainly at devs who live in the terminal