OpenHuman wants to be the desktop agent that already knows you
A Rust desktop agent that wires 118 of your accounts together, builds a memory tree of who you are, and runs locally. tinyhumansai shipped v0.53.22 on May 9 and the repo is moving fast. +501 stars today, 1,368 total. The pitch borrows from Andrej Karpathy's note-taking workflow but pushes it into agent territory.
The thing that makes OpenHuman different from the dozen other personal-AI projects is the wiring philosophy. Most personal assistants either lock you to one provider or make you build context manually. OpenHuman does one-click OAuth into Gmail, Notion, GitHub, Slack, Stripe and 113 more, then runs a background sync every 20 minutes that distills everything into a hierarchical Memory Tree. You start using it the day you install it, not the week after you have fed it your life.
The other interesting piece is TokenJuice, a compression layer that strips up to 80% of waste out of HTML, URLs and content before anything hits an LLM. Pair that with model routing across reasoning, fast and vision and you get an agent that is actually cheap to run. Native web search, scraping, coding tools and voice are bundled in. Default is local-first, nothing leaves the machine unless you ask it to.
The category, personal-agent-that-actually-knows-you, has been promised by Limitless, Bee, Friend, Plaud and half a dozen others. OpenHuman is the first credible Rust-native open-source attempt, and tinyhumans.ai is shipping fast enough that the Memory Tree philosophy might actually win the slot.
Repo: https://github.com/tinyhumansai/openhuman
Site: https://tinyhumans.ai/openhuman
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The thing that makes OpenHuman different from the dozen other personal-AI projects is the wiring philosophy. Most personal assistants either lock you to one provider or make you build context manually. OpenHuman does one-click OAuth into Gmail, Notion, GitHub, Slack, Stripe and 113 more, then runs a background sync every 20 minutes that distills everything into a hierarchical Memory Tree. You start using it the day you install it, not the week after you have fed it your life.
The other interesting piece is TokenJuice, a compression layer that strips up to 80% of waste out of HTML, URLs and content before anything hits an LLM. Pair that with model routing across reasoning, fast and vision and you get an agent that is actually cheap to run. Native web search, scraping, coding tools and voice are bundled in. Default is local-first, nothing leaves the machine unless you ask it to.
The category, personal-agent-that-actually-knows-you, has been promised by Limitless, Bee, Friend, Plaud and half a dozen others. OpenHuman is the first credible Rust-native open-source attempt, and tinyhumans.ai is shipping fast enough that the Memory Tree philosophy might actually win the slot.
Repo: https://github.com/tinyhumansai/openhuman
Site: https://tinyhumans.ai/openhuman
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