OpenHuman: Your Private, Powerful AI Super Intelligence

Introduction

OpenHuman is a groundbreaking open-source project that delivers a personal AI super intelligence, emphasizing privacy, simplicity, and immense power. Developed by tinyhumansai and built with Rust, OpenHuman integrates directly into your desktop environment, acting as a persistent, context-aware agent. Unlike many AI assistants, OpenHuman prioritizes local data storage, keeping your memory tree, Obsidian-style Markdown vault, and workspace configurations securely on your machine, while leveraging managed services for account login, model routing, and web search proxying where necessary.

At its core, OpenHuman is designed to be human-centric, featuring a clean UI, a desktop mascot that interacts with its environment, and the ability to remember your context over weeks. It's an agent that thinks in the background, providing a truly integrated and personal AI experience.

Installation

Getting started with OpenHuman is straightforward. You can download the application directly or use terminal commands for a quick setup:

Download the App:
Visit tinyhumans.ai/openhuman to download the DMG/EXE installer.

Via Terminal:

For macOS or Linux x64:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tinyhumansai/openhuman/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

For Windows:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tinyhumansai/openhuman/main/scripts/install.ps1 | iex

If you wish to contribute from the source code, you'll need Git, Node.js 24+, pnpm 10.10.0, Rust 1.93.0 (with rustfmt and clippy), CMake, Ninja, ripgrep, and platform-specific desktop build prerequisites. Refer to the project's CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed instructions.

Examples

OpenHuman excels in integrating with your existing tools and workflows, making it a versatile assistant:

Extensive Integrations: Connect to over 118 third-party services like Gmail, Notion, GitHub, Slack, Stripe, Calendar, Drive, Linear, and Jira with one-click OAuth. These connections provide the agent with typed tools and automatically fetch fresh data into its Memory Tree every twenty minutes, ensuring it always has the latest context.
Local Knowledge Base: It builds a local, SQLite-based knowledge base, the "Memory Tree," from your data and activities. All connected information is canonized into Markdown chunks and stored in an Obsidian-compatible vault on your machine, allowing you to browse and edit it directly.
Built-in Toolset: OpenHuman comes with a comprehensive suite of native tools, including web search, a web-fetch scraper, a full coder toolset (filesystem, Git, Lint, Test, Grep), and native language capabilities (STT input, ElevenLabs TTS output, lip-sync for the mascot, live Google Meet agent).
Smart Model Routing & Local AI: It intelligently routes workloads to the most suitable LLM via the OpenHuman backend (Reasoning, Fast, or Vision). For on-device workloads, optional local AI via Ollama is supported.

Why Use OpenHuman

OpenHuman stands out by addressing common challenges faced by other AI agents, offering distinct advantages:

Context in Minutes, Not Weeks: Unlike agents that start cold, OpenHuman quickly builds a comprehensive understanding of your context. By connecting your accounts, its Auto-Fetch feature gathers data locally, and Memory Trees compress it into an Obsidian-style wiki. Within a single sync cycle, the agent gains full context of your mailbox, calendar, repos, documents, and messages, without a lengthy training phase.
Open Source & Privacy-Focused: Licensed under GPL-3.0, OpenHuman is open source, giving users transparency and control. It prioritizes privacy, keeping workflow data on your device, locally encrypted, and owned by you.
Reduced Vendor Sprawl & Cost Efficiency: It aims to reduce the need for multiple API keys and accounts by providing a unified experience. Its "TokenJuice" smart token compression layer optimizes every tool call, scrape result, and email text, reducing costs and latency by up to 80% while preserving information integrity.
Persistent Memory: Beyond chat-bound memory, OpenHuman provides a persistent memory through its Memory Tree and Obsidian-Vault, optionally integrating with an agentmemory backend for a consistent store across various coding agents.
User-Friendly Experience: With its clean desktop UI and minimal setup, OpenHuman is designed for ease of use, making powerful AI accessible without requiring terminal expertise or complex configurations.