Qovira: A Private, Self-Hostable AI Personal Assistant in Go

Summary

Qovira is an ambitious project aiming to deliver a private, self-hostable AI personal assistant. Built with Go and SvelteKit, it will organize reminders, notes, and schedules using AI, all on infrastructure you control. Currently in early development, Qovira promises a secure and private alternative to cloud-based AI tools.

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Introduction

Qovira is an innovative project focused on creating a private, self-hostable AI personal assistant. Designed as a single Go binary, it will provide a JSON/SSE API and an embedded web client to help users organize their reminders, notes, and daily schedule through chat, backed by structured records. A key feature is its commitment to privacy, running on your own server against a model endpoint of your choice, ensuring no data leaves your control.

Currently, Qovira is in early development. The core build infrastructure is established, with the qovira binary successfully building with an embedded web client and serving a blank page. The HTTP API and the full web client are still under active development.

Why Use and Key Benefits

Qovira stands out for several compelling reasons, particularly for users prioritizing privacy and control:

Privacy-First Design: By being self-hostable, Qovira ensures that your personal data, notes, and interactions with the AI remain entirely on your chosen infrastructure, never phoning home to external servers.
AI-Powered Organization: The assistant is designed to intelligently organize your reminders, notes, and schedule, transforming unstructured chat into actionable, structured records.
Self-Hostable: You have complete control over where and how Qovira runs, offering flexibility and independence from commercial cloud services.
Efficient Tech Stack: Built with Go for the backend and SvelteKit for the embedded web client, Qovira aims for performance and a modern user experience.
Open-Source License: Licensed under AGPL-3.0, promoting transparency and community contributions.

Installation

As Qovira is in early development, it is not yet available for end-users, and there is no functional application to use. However, developers can build the current chassis from source. You will need a Go toolchain, Node.js, and pnpm for the web client.

To build from source:

make build

This command produces the ./qovira binary with the Single Page Application (SPA) embedded. To build the distroless Docker image:

make docker

End-user installation instructions will be provided as the server gains real capabilities.

Examples

Usage examples are forthcoming as the project develops. The vision is to point the server at a model endpoint, expose it on a domain, and interact with the AI personal assistant through the bundled web client. This will enable users to manage their daily tasks, notes, and schedule via a chat interface that intelligently processes and stores information.