buddiWhat buddi is made of
Everything is a plugin
The core has no tools; mail, the browser, memory, reminders, finance, weather and the rest are plugins, each read with you before it runs. Plugins bring their own pages and widgets. Today's plugins speak host API 1.33, the one buddi 0.1.0-pre.52 ships.
Any model, per teammate
The provider is one line. Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama on this computer, or any OpenAI-compatible service. One line decides which company sees that teammate's requests. Bring an API key, or sign in with a Claude or ChatGPT subscription you already have.
Permissions by design
A teammate gets the tools its file names and nothing more. Sending mail, running a command or acting in a browser stops at a card that shows exactly what will happen, on the dashboard or on your phone; reject it and nothing did.
Fits your workflow
An MCP server for Claude Code and other clients: reads answer at once, writes become approval cards. The buddi extension lets your agents work in background tabs of the Chrome you are signed in to, paired by a six-digit code. Telegram for your phone.
Local-first
Every conversation, memory, file and backup, in a private Postgres. Your secrets, in the macOS keychain or an encrypted file vault on Linux; no command, page or tool prints one back. The dashboard loads nothing from the internet. There is no telemetry.
Open source
buddi is open source under the Apache 2.0 license, and early: a pre-release that runs every day on its author's machines and will have rough edges on yours. Issues and pull requests are welcome.
--- id: ledger handle: ledger name: Ledger description: Tracks my accounts and answers "can I afford this?". provider: anthropic model: claude-sonnet-5 tools: [finance.*, memory.*, reminder.*] --- You are my finance advisor. There is exactly one owner: the person you are talking to. Today is {{today}}.
Under the hood: an agent is a markdown file.
- 1The front matter names the tools the teammate may call. Nothing else is callable, and no conversation can grant more.
- 2The provider is one line. Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama on this computer, or any OpenAI-compatible service. One line decides which company sees that teammate's requests.
- 3The body is the persona, in plain markdown. Keep it, rewrite it, or let Agent Father write one for you after an interview.
Listing a plugin.
Publish it to npm under your own name and add one file to withbuddi/buddi-market by pull request. The market check stages the package the way an install would, reads its manifest and provenance, and writes what it found into the entry: tools and tiers, hosts, timers, agents. The page can never claim less than the code does.
From the command line.
macOS and Linux, with Node 22 or newer. On a Mac, Homebrew installs the app: brew install withbuddi/tap/buddi. The Mac app and the npm package are the same buddi, on the same data folder.