Building a Privacy-First AI Assistant for Windows — The Directive Architecture

Every AI assistant I've ever used made the same assumption: the intelligence lives somewhere else.

Alexa. Siri. Cortana. Google Assistant. Beautiful products. All built on the same architecture: your device is a terminal. The brain is a server. Owned by a company. Governed by a terms of service that can change on a Tuesday afternoon.

I wanted something different. So I built it.

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