An AI Chief of Staff Running on Your Own Machine

Published on 13.04.2026

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I Built Myself an AI Chief of Staff. Now You Can Too.

TLDR: The author built "Claudia," a local AI assistant that runs in your terminal, maintains a personal database of conversations, tracks relationships and commitments, and improves with continued use. The article walks through the installation process and the philosophy behind context-aware AI assistants.

I built myself an AI chief of staff. Now you can too.