With all the talk about AI companions and autonomous agents, I’ve been experimenting with building a more personal, always-on assistant that runs locally or on your own hardware. The goal wasn’t just another chatbot — it was something that could handle voice conversations, manage ongoing tasks across different platforms (chat apps, scheduled triggers, etc.), remember context over long periods, and delegate work without constant babysitting. What stood out in practice • One consistent “brain” across everything — Whether you’re talking to it via voice, Telegram, a web interface, or it wakes up on a schedule, the core reasoning, memory, and tool use stay the same. This eliminated a lot of the fragmentation you see in many current agent setups. • Modular extensions — Different capabilities (voice, different chat networks, external tools, long-term memory consolidation) plug in cleanly. This made it easier to add or swap things without rebuilding the whole system.…