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Household Assistant

A secure, privacy-first home assistant built for trust and safe experimentation.

Open-source home assistants like OpenClaw and similar tools offer powerful automation, but they come with real trade-offs. Security models are often an afterthought, integrations can expose local network details, and the tooling rarely gives you a safe way to experiment before deploying changes to your actual home environment.

This project is building a secure, personal home assistant designed from the ground up with privacy and usability in mind. The system manages common household tasks — schedules, reminders, inventory, routines — while keeping all data local and all integrations sandboxed. A key design principle is the ability to test any automation or configuration change in a safe preview mode before it goes live.

The goal is a home assistant that is genuinely trustworthy: one where you understand exactly what data flows where, and where experimentation is encouraged rather than risky.