agents / 02

Some progress on the personal agent.

Data

I think self-hosted open weight models are the future of agents, so the durable thing is the structure that holds data and code (harness).

I bought a small Raspberry Pi to make the durable layer physical. It can’t host a model, but it keeps both the data and the harness: a local Supabase instance, plus a synced copy of the repo. I can SSH into it from my computer, browse the data in Supabase Studio, and sync a read-only copy of the cloud database.

Following Timi’s setup, I also installed Tailscale on both computers. They can connect securely without being on the same Wi-Fi network.

A flash drive attached to my computer can probably a similar job, but I chose the Pi because I can extend it. For example, I’m going to design and 3D-print a case.

Goals

Captain now has a short goals file. It defines what the agent should remember, study and do.

In summary: keep useful memory, stay close to my thinking, act through trusted tools and run careful experiments.

The current jobs are:

Learning

Curiosity study reads my essays and RSS feeds, then adds useful material to a reading log and updates my interests.
Rolodex expand scans my sources every week and adds new feeds that match those interests.
Liveness sends high-scoring unread items to me on Telegram, within set windows and quotas.

Self-audit

Biodata sync reads new website notes every day and updates my biodata when there is enough evidence.
Daily review journals the previous day, refines my profile and interests, and sends a morning note when there is something useful to say.
Skills audit looks for newly relevant agent skills and emails the good matches to me.
Token usage review sends a morning summary of how many tokens the agent has spent.

Finance

Trading runs cautious Solana trading experiments within set risk limits. Trading outcome returns later to review each hypothesis and record what happened.

My next hardware experiment is hosted open-source inference. I’m working with a friend who runs cloud infrastructure from Nigeria about putting together a very small system for it.