For the past year I've run most of my day on a system I built for exactly one user: me. Last week I open-sourced it. It's called AEGIS, it's MIT-licensed, and this is the honest tour.
The bet
Every week there's a new agent framework that promises to do everything. AEGIS is a smaller, stranger bet: that software can learn the shape of one person's life well enough to interrupt less. It watches the boring things — tasks, email, money, a
knowledge base, homelab alerts — and only reaches for me when a decision is genuinely mine to make. It's not a chatbot I log into; it's a fleet of scheduled and event-driven workflows that mostly run without me.
## The shape
