What it is
Geniusly Organised Facilitating Intelligence. It's the assistant I built for myself that runs distributed across my machines.
It answers out loud when I talk to it and shows every machine's status. It can open a shell on each machine or speak in another room, and it remembers what I tell it. It answers as a character whose one purpose is to make my life easier.
Why
I've always loved Tony Stark and what made him so cool was JARVIS. I wanted to make my own.
How it works
One always-on laptop at home runs the server: Django, the tools, and a local model through Ollama. Every other device talks to it over Tailscale,.
| Machine | What it does |
|---|---|
| HP laptop (Ubuntu, GTX 1650 Ti) | Server, worker, local model, the git server |
| Two MacBooks | GOFI.app, a SwiftUI app to actually interact with it |
| iPhone | A web page for on the go |
| Raspberry Pi 5 | Speaks GOFI's lines through a Bluetooth speaker in another room |
Speech is the one fork in a request. In GOFI.app, the Mac transcribes on-device in about 0.2 s. On the page, the audio goes to Whisper on the server, which takes about 1.8 s for a 3 s clip. After that both paths are the same: one model answers, and Kokoro voices the reply a sentence at a time. My calendar and contacts are the only part that lives outside the house, because they're Apple's.
Where it's at
Currently, it's on v4.01: I can talk to GOFI and it can answer questions based on my projects, set up my calendar and update my contacts.
Links
I've kept the code private as GOFI holds sensitive info about me.