Editable by design
Your automation stays readable and yours.
Workflows, behavioral directions, and preferences remain documents you can inspect, edit, share, or remove.
work-buddy
The AI assistant for knowledge workers
So you can focus on what matters.
On Your Wavelength, In Your Work, On Your Terms
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Take the tour
product theater
localhost:5127/threads/th-mobile-capture
Mobile capture
via Telegram · 4 captures · organizing
Inferred groups3 found
Launch follow-up
2 capturesBrief for Maya + churn numbers
TasksRoute to tasks
Research to revisit
1 captureMeeting-free teams study
ConsiderationRoute to considerations
Onboarding decision
1 captureActivation checklist rationale
processing
capture analysis
Onboarding decision
capture“Keep the activation checklist with the rollout rationale.”
IntentProject context
ContextMatching project...
ActionChoosing a supported destination...
Source: Telegram · captured 11:51 AM · original text attached
Predict-then-propose
The agent surfaces what would help next. You call the shots.
Threads gathers changes across your notes, projects, workflows, and captures into an AI-driven decision queue, so you can clear incoming work with confidence.
“I automate what you've okayed and go no further.”
ProactiveDecisiveSteerable
Why it's different
YOUR context. YOUR workflows. YOUR agent.
Core use works through your existing Claude Code subscription, so you do not need pay-per-token API access. Optional background features can use API calls or local models. Your data stays on your machine.
Resumable workflows
Interruptions don't erase the plan.
The conductor keeps ordering, dependencies, retry state, and progress so a workflow can resume instead of starting over.
Built to extend
Ask for a workflow, then keep what gets built.
Your agent can discover existing capabilities, compose a new workflow, and leave the result as an asset you can inspect and refine.
Sovereignty
Designed to keep your data, attention, and decisions in your hands.
Data
Lives on your machine.
Local files, your Obsidian vault, browser context, and the work-buddy runtime stay on your machine. Your vault remains user-owned plain text, and nothing leaves unless you choose.
Attention
A considerate teammate. Surfaces only what merits action. Knows when to act, and when to abstain.
Decision-making
Contracts and stop rules define what the agent may do, what requires judgment, and when it must abstain.
Financial
Choose where reasoning runs. Route routine work locally, reserve frontier models for judgment, and inspect the cost of every call in the dashboard.
convenient consent
Approved paths move. Judgment stops here.
you
agent
In Your Work
Context comes to you
work-buddy reads from where you already work and notices what changed, so current context is available without another round of copying and pasting.
reads from
work-buddy
local runtime
consent boundary
Context can inform the agent. Decisions still pass through you.
approved action
Capture triage
file what matters
Workflow run
approved path
Project memory
keep state current
Action queue
waiting for you
Key integrations
Core
vault bridgeObsidian.md Connector
Deep vault access - tasks, journal, Day Planner, tag wrangling, and Smart Connections.
Obsidian pluginCore
action hubWeb Dashboard
System observability, notification center, thread chat, and tab management.
Core
remote consentMobile Control
Telegram bot plus Tailscale remote access for approvals, triggers, and monitoring.
MCP gateway
One gateway discovers and routes capabilities across every connected module.
Plugin
browser cleanupChrome Extension
Tab tracking, content extraction, and a full capture triage pipeline.
Plugin
email reviewThunderbird Add-on
Email integration to surface, triage, and act on your inbox without leaving your workflow.
Thunderbird add-onMeta
deep recallHindsight Memory
Persistent personal memory across sessions. Semantic search, reflection, and pruning.
Get started
Guided setup preview
local session
Local setup
A setup as easy as 1-2-3.
Open source under GPL-3.0-only · no paywalls or freemium
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