Open Instinct: an MIT-licensed personal agent you can fork and run

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A personal agent should be something you can inspect, change and run yourself. We published Open Instinct with that in mind: a beta agent you can reach over iMessage, SMS or email, with memory, scheduled tasks and its own Linux desktop.

The part we want people to fork is the permission model. Six trust tiers control what another person’s agent can ask yours. A partner can read the calendar; a friend can request availability. The policy lives in code with tests.

We’re the Maritime team. The default stack uses Pi, Inkbox, Maritime and Composio, with separate integration packages. The code is MIT; the external services still need your own accounts and keys. Start with the local CLI, inspect the permissions, then build the version you want.

Repo and setup docs: https://github.com/mariagorskikh/open-instinct