OpenJarvis

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Why OpenJarvis?

Personal AI agents are exploding in popularity, but nearly all of them still route intelligence through cloud APIs. Your "personal" AI continues to depend on someone else's server. At the same time, our Intelligence Per Watt research showed that local language models already handle 88.7% of single-turn chat and reasoning queries, with intelligence efficiency improving 5.3× from 2023 to 2025. The models and hardware are increasingly ready. What has been missing is the software stack to make local-first personal AI practical.

OpenJarvis is that stack. It is a framework for local-first personal AI, built around three core ideas: shared primitives for building on-device agents; evaluations that treat energy, FLOPs, latency, and dollar cost as first-class constraints alongside accuracy; and a learning loop that improves models using local trace data. The goal is simple: make it possible to build personal AI agents that run locally by default, calling the cloud only when truly necessary. OpenJarvis aims to be both a research platform and a production foundation for local AI, in the spirit of PyTorch.

Installation

Pick your platform and run one command. Each installer handles uv, the Python venv, Ollama, and a starter model — about 3 minutes on broadband.

Platform	One-liner
macOS · Linux · WSL2	curl -fsSL https://open-jarvis.github.io/OpenJarvis/install.sh | bash
Native Windows	irm https://open-jarvis.github.io/OpenJarvis/install.ps1 | iex
Desktop GUI	Download .exe / .dmg / .deb / .rpm / .AppImage from the latest release

Then jarvis to start. The Rust extension and larger models continue downloading in the background; jarvis doctor shows status.

Platform-specific notes (WSL2 setup, native-Windows scheduled-task service, desktop prerequisites, manual / contributor install): see the installation docs.

Quick Start

jarvis                          # start chatting (default: chat-simple)
jarvis init --preset <name>     # switch to a starter config

Prefix jarvis ... with uv run, or source .venv/bin/activate first.

Preset	What it does
morning-digest-mac / morning-digest-linux / morning-digest-minimal	Spoken daily briefing from email, calendar, health, news
deep-research	Multi-hop research across indexed docs with citations
code-assistant	Agent with code execution, file I/O, and shell access
scheduled-monitor	Stateful agent on a schedule with memory
chat-simple	Lightweight conversation, no tools

Example:

jarvis init --preset morning-digest-mac
jarvis connect gdrive          # one OAuth covers Gmail / Calendar / Tasks
jarvis digest --fresh          # generate and play your first briefing

Per-preset deep dives: morning digest · deep research · code assistant · scheduled monitor · chat simple · or the full quickstart guide.

Skills

Skills teach agents how to better use tools and improve their reasoning. Every skill is a tool — agents discover them from a catalog and invoke them on demand.

# Install skills from public sources
jarvis skill install hermes:arxiv
jarvis skill sync hermes --category research

# Use skills with any agent
jarvis ask "Use the code-explainer skill to explain this Python code: for i in range(5): print(i*2)"

# Optimize skills from your trace history
jarvis optimize skills --policy dspy

# Benchmark the impact
jarvis bench skills --max-samples 5 --seeds 42

Import from Hermes Agent (~150 skills), OpenClaw (~13,700 community skills), or any GitHub repo. Skills follow the agentskills.io open standard.

See the Skills User Guide and Skills Tutorial for details.

Built-in Agents

OpenJarvis ships with eight built-in agents across three execution modes (on-demand, scheduled, continuous):

Agent	Type	What it does
morning_digest	Scheduled	Daily briefing from email, calendar, health, news — with TTS audio
deep_research	On-demand	Multi-hop research with citations across web and local docs
monitor_operative	Continuous	Long-horizon monitoring with memory, compression, and retrieval
orchestrator	On-demand	Multi-turn reasoning with automatic tool selection
native_react	On-demand	ReAct (Thought-Action-Observation) loop agent
operative	Continuous	Persistent autonomous agent with state management
native_openhands	On-demand	CodeAct — generates and executes Python code
simple	On-demand	Single-turn chat, no tools

See the User Guide and Tutorials for detailed setup instructions.

Full documentation — including Docker deployment, cloud engines, development setup, and tutorials — at open-jarvis.github.io/OpenJarvis.

Community

• GitHub: github.com/open-jarvis/OpenJarvis
• Discord: discord.gg/CMVBmDQ5Fj
• X / Twitter: @OpenJarvisAI
• Docs: open-jarvis.github.io/OpenJarvis

Contributing

We welcome contributions! See the Contributing Guide for incentives, contribution types, and the PR process.

Quick start for contributors:

git clone https://github.com/open-jarvis/OpenJarvis.git
cd OpenJarvis
uv sync --extra dev
uv run pre-commit install
uv run pytest tests/ -v

Browse the Roadmap for areas where help is needed. Comment "take" on any issue to get auto-assigned.

About

OpenJarvis is part of Intelligence Per Watt, a research initiative studying the intelligence efficiency of AI systems. The project is developed at Hazy Research and the Scaling Intelligence Lab at Stanford SAIL.

Sponsors

Citation

@misc{saadfalcon2026openjarvispersonalaipersonal,
      title={OpenJarvis: Personal AI, On Personal Devices}, 
      author={Jon Saad-Falcon and Avanika Narayan and Robby Manihani and Tanvir Bhathal and Herumb Shandilya and Hakki Orhun Akengin and Gabriel Bo and Andrew Park and Matthew Hart and Caia Costello and Chuan Li and Christopher Ré and Azalia Mirhoseini},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2605.17172},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17172}, 
}

License

Apache 2.0