CraftBot: Self-Hosted Proactive AI Assistant for Task Automation
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Zac Zuo
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Summary
CraftBot is a self-hosted, proactive AI assistant that runs locally on a user's machine, working 24/7 to interpret tasks, plan actions, and execute them autonomously to help achieve personal goals. It learns user objectives and proactively assists with planning and task initiation, supporting MCPs, skills, and external app integrations. The agent harness is open-source under the MIT license and available on GitHub.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledA self-hosted Proactive AI Assistant that lives inside your machine and works 24/7 for your daily execution.
It autonomously interprets tasks, plans actions, and executes them to achieve your goals.
It learns your objectives, proactively helping you plan and initiate tasks to achieve your life goals.
MCPs,Skills, and external App integrations are supported.
The agent harness, from prompt to agentic loop, is under the MIT license.
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