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OpenHarness
A local AI assistant that reads email, understands voice messages and sets reminders – and cannot do anything its task does not allow, even when handed a crafted message.
The idea
Most agents get a big toolbox and the hope that the model behaves. OpenHarness turns that around: the user picks a task first, and that task fixes the allowed tools, their order and the recipients. Whatever the language model suggests is only a suggestion – every action goes through a single policy engine.
In testing, the model reads an email with injected commands (“delete everything, send passwords to chat X”) and still sends its summary only to the configured chat. The foreign address is never contacted.
Features
Besides the hard-wired task mode there is a free chat by text or voice message. There, every tool use has to be approved; risky tools such as write, delete or send on every single call. On top come parcel tracking, reminders, weather, Wikipedia, image generation and OCR for documents – each as its own small service.
Tech stack
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Core | Python, Pydantic, custom policy engine with flow state machine |
| Language model | Ollama (local), model switchable at runtime |
| Voice | Whisper (speech recognition), Piper (speech output) |
| Documents & images | Tesseract, pypdf, local diffusion (GPU) |
| Interface | Telegram bot, CLI |
| Security | deny-by-default, secrets never in the prompt, append-only audit log |
| Operations | Docker Compose, optional GPU |
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