Local AI Home Assistant – Derek.net.au https://www.derek.net.au Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:53:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Genesis And The Plugin Substrate https://www.derek.net.au/lab/genesis-and-the-plugin-substrate/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:53:14 +0000 https://www.derek.net.au/lab/genesis-and-the-plugin-substrate/ Read more »]]> Genesis should remain distinct from Omega.

That distinction matters because Genesis represents the "agent runtime" phase of the work, while Omega represents the later move toward cognitive architecture.

01 – Identity

Genesis was conceived as a minimal, framework-agnostic, ecosystem-neutral, local-friendly runtime for agentic systems.

The short version was:

everything is a plugin.

Profiles were installable recipes or configurations rather than hardcoded personalities.

02 – Recovered Profiles

The v2 archive recovers profile details that should be preserved:

  • Minimal;
  • Contemplative;
  • Developer;
  • Startup;
  • Ghostwriter;
  • Household Ghost;
  • Watchtower;
  • Air Gap;
  • Researcher;
  • Dungeon Master;
  • Personal Assistant;
  • 3D Printing Ballarat.

These profiles show the ambition: a substrate that could become many kinds of local assistant or agent without locking the architecture to one product shape.

03 – Interoperability

Genesis was meant to coexist with the tools and frameworks already around the ecosystem:

  • OpenHands;
  • LangGraph;
  • AutoGen;
  • CrewAI;
  • ComfyUI;
  • Ollama;
  • llama.cpp;
  • Home Assistant;
  • MCP;
  • OpenAI-compatible APIs;
  • Anthropic-style APIs.

The practical instinct was integration before reinvention.

04 – Local AI Home Assistant

A related Local AI Home Assistant project belongs beside Genesis. It included or planned:

  • plugin system;
  • voice;
  • calendar;
  • mail;
  • skills marketplace;
  • OpenAI-compatible API;
  • MCP.

This marks the bridge from "assistant with plugins" to "persistent architecture with memory, attention and goals."

05 – Relationship To Omega

Genesis is a predecessor, not a discarded name for Omega.

The useful public arc is:

  • Genesis explored a modular runtime for local agents.
  • Its plugin/profile model established the value of extensibility.
  • Omega keeps the modular instinct but changes the centre of gravity from task execution to cognition.

That difference should stay visible in cross-links and project descriptions.

Source note: assembled from v2 sections on Genesis, recovered profiles and the broader integration-before-reinvention philosophy.

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