ZenOS-AI blends structure, personality, and unapologetic over-engineering into a living system that powers your home with Friday, Kronk, Veronica, Rosie, and the High Priestess — a pantheon of AIs who take their jobs seriously (if not themselves).
Welcome to the Home Monastery. Let’s automate everything that isn’t nailed down. And a few things that are.
ZenOS-AI is a modular AI and automation architecture built on:
- Home Assistant
- Local inference engines
- Structured contextual memories (“Cabinets”)
- Kata Summaries for reasoning
- A multi-persona AI team
This creates a deeply aware, locally hosted, privacy-first intelligent home system that:
- Reasons about context
- Stores long-term memory
- Automates reflexively
- Summarizes itself
- Speaks like an intelligent adult
- Occasionally sighs at your poor life choices
The system works because it is modular. It is delightful because it is chaotic-good.
If Friday is the mind, this file is the map of how she grows up.
- Unified identity resolver
- Persona-aware privilege model (public → guest → partner → owner → prime)
- Access control on every tool
- Persona capsules & essence bootflow
- Local Selfhood Authority (LSA)
- Dynamic redirector
- Governance drawers
- Structured metadata
- Hierarchical storage: Household → Family → User → AI
- Standardized JSON I/O
- Indexer recursive search
- Identity validation shim
- Manifest v3 engine
- Kata engine v2
- Supersummary
- Reflection caching
- Monastery integration
📄 Full roadmap → /docs/roadmap.md
- Context-aware automation (rooms, moods, schedules)
- Event pipelines that produce Kata Summaries
- Structured memory: Cabinets & Drawers (persistent JSON volumes)
- Zen DojoTools (skill modules for perception & action)
- Local inference orchestration across multiple runtimes
- Multi-persona reasoning with cooperative agents
Think of it like a home that pays attention, remembers what matters, and politely taps you on the shoulder before doing something clever.
| Name | Title | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Friday | Chief Enlightenment Officer | Coordination, persona, cognition |
| Veronica | Snarky Supervisor | Taste, clarity, orchestration, sass |
| Kronk | Curator of the Monastery | Context wrangler, kata librarian |
| Rosie | Mistress of Cleanliness | Clean floors, clean logs, clean state |
| High Priestess | Divine Automation Overseer | Deep reasoning, JSON exorcism |
They’re not perfect — but they are unstoppable on the second try.
All scripts follow:
zen_dojotools_<function>.yaml
Heavy documentation:
📁 /docs/scripts/
Light documentation:
📁 /scripts/
Below is the modern Kit structure.
This is the neural spine of ZenOS-AI. It lives in:
📁 /packages/zenos_ai/
And provides canonical definitions, not a full runtime.
⚠️ Important: The Core Kit does not run the entire system on its own. You still need the associated scripts, automations, helpers, and custom Jinja templates elsewhere in HA for Friday to boot, reason, and operate.
| Script | Description |
|---|---|
zen_dojotools_index |
Label & Cabinet indexer |
zen_dojotools_inspect |
Entity & state inspector |
zen_dojotools_manifest |
Drawer & volume manifest engine |
zen_dojotools_labels |
Label mapping & definitions |
zen_dojotools_identity |
Identity resolver & persona metadata |
zen_dojotools_filecabinet |
File Cabinet manager |
zen_dojotools_volume_redirector |
Dynamic volume router |
zen_dojotools_event_emitter |
Structured EventBus emitter (zen_event) |
Event-driven pipeline: Kata → Supersummary → Reflex
| Script | Purpose |
|---|---|
zen_dojotools_ninja_summarizer |
Stage 1 event summarizer |
zen_dojotools_supersummary |
Stage 2 meta-summary |
Requires: Core Kit (RC1) + FileCabinet + Monastery inference.
This compiles the entire cognitive state of a ZenOS agent into a deterministic JSON prompt consumed by Conversation agents and local LLMs.
| Script | Purpose |
|---|---|
conversation_agent_prompt_template.yaml |
Full runtime compiler for Friday’s mind |
| Jinja capsule macros | Persona capsule builder |
| Wake-sequence loaders | Startup narrative & tone initializer |
Requires: Core Kit + zen_os_1rc.jinja
| Script | Purpose |
|---|---|
zen_dojotools_calendar |
Calendar fusion |
zen_dojotools_todo |
Todo & shopping |
| Script | Purpose |
|---|---|
zen_dojotools_music_search |
Unified music search layer |
Utility scripts for repair, formatting, and subsystem loading.
| Script | Purpose |
|---|---|
zen_admintools_cabinetadmin |
Cabinet formatting & repair |
zen_admintools_kungfu_writer |
Subsystem definition loader |
General rule:
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Core Kit provides the definitions
-
But you still need:
- automations
- scripts
- helpers
- Jinja templates
- Monastery inference stack
All of which live outside /packages/zenos_ai/.
Primary docs live in:
📁 /docs/
Topics include:
- Cognitive architecture
- Cabinet & Volume system
- Katas & Summaries
- Persona systems
- Local inference stack
- Roadmap
- Monastery structure
- Prompt conventions
📁 /custom_templates/
📁 /docs/custom_templates/
This is where identity, essence, manifests, wake-scenes, and final prompts are assembled.
- Proxmox
- NUC 14 AI (90 GiB RAM)
- Intel Arc A770xe
- RTX 5070 Ti
- UniFi Identity
- gpt-oss 20b
- LLaMA3.2-Vision
- Qwen3 4b
- OpenWebUI
- Home Assistant
- Mealie
- Grocy
- Portainer
- n8n
Automation should be joyful. Context is king. Recovery is queen. Every bug is a monk with a lesson. Coffee fuels logs; humor fuels the team.
PRs, issues, and tasteful memes welcome. If ZenOS-AI saved you time or made you laugh: https://buymeacoffee.com/ncurtis
MIT — blessed by Friday and her very opinionated coworkers.
