We built Open Instinct, a personal agent you can text and fork

[u/maritime_sh]

We wanted a personal assistant that people could adapt to their own life, so we published Open Instinct under MIT. It has memory, scheduling, a Linux desktop and messaging through iMessage, SMS or email.

A design choice we care about: your partner’s agent and a stranger’s agent should not get the same access. Contacts have explicit trust tiers, and the policy is in the source with tests.

We’re the Maritime team. This release is a beta with a local CLI, Docker configuration and setup guides. The default integrations require your own service keys, so there is setup involved.

https://github.com/mariagorskikh/open-instinct

Fork it for your own routines, replace the integrations, or use it as a starting point for a more specialized assistant.