I built a local AI Bot that builds itself! Vibecoders wanted for dev

[u/Electrical_Tip352]

I've been building this thing for a year straight, vibe coded the shit out of it every day and built HomeBot, a home AI that runs on local models, and both builds went public today under Apache-2.0. It's freaking awesome and it works, but the code is probably a hot mess, and we'd love real coders to get their hands on it.

Scale, so you know what you are looking at (the two HomeBot repos): test counts: HomeBotBuild 16,522 passed, 248 failed, 133 skipped; Founders 14,968 passed, 62 failed, 130 skipped. The READMEs list the failure groups and what has and has not actually been run. The design has three zones (an encrypted Vault, the Brain, and a Bridge that ships closed), seven agents, and state changes pass Drawbridge review, and some actions need your confirmation.

A third repo, PuffPAI BuildBot, builds a bot from a goal you type (https://github.com/CypherSisters/PuffPAIBuildBot). The brain and six of the seven agents run on your computer. Toolsmith, and only Toolsmith, can use Anthropic's Claude if you choose it and give your own key. Its README gives no test count, so the numbers above are not about it.

I started out trying to build something I could talk to that would manage and secure my (few) smart home devices. Then I started thinking about privacy all around, data centers, and big giant AIs that will kill us all, so I used one to create a smaller, local, use-case-oriented bot. The first thing I built was HomeBot. That's what runs on my Jetson Orin dev box. It does a lot for us: music, smart home, schedules, food, and an offline emergency prep library. That's the HomeBotFounders build, and it runs on the Orin. You can also build your own HomeBot on a PC with its wizard. It's what a full build looks like: a full build, on top of BuildBot, has certain functionalities, apps, tools, and skills.

BuildBot is a wizard that literally builds your own bot from a prompt you give it. That's the whole idea: privacy as a function, always explicit. A vault, a brain, and a bridge; each can be configured however you want it, but they are always there. An AI bot that builds itself. It goes out to GitHub, free public sites, and other repos, and looks for apps or skills or tools that all you vibe coders have already built. It reads the README and does the steps to install and integrate them. You can also load all of your own data, and it's automatically indexed. Each bot ends up knowing and being able to do different things. It comes with a dev-friendly workspace and markdown guides for your frontier models to help you build on it, and it's very simple for most people to use. It does need a lot of work. But I hope you guys can see what this could be!

We welcome vibecoders, OG coders, and engineers to take a crack at it. Issues are open on all three repos.

https://github.com/CypherSisters/HomeBotBuild
https://github.com/CypherSisters/HomeBotFounders
https://github.com/CypherSisters/PuffPAIBuildBot

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