outheis 0.2.16

Multi-agent personal assistant

οὐθείς (outheis)

Multi-agent AI assistant

Any of your AI interactions represents you — queries, patterns, thinking. Over time, the puzzle completes. Not for you, but for the platform operators.

outheis takes a different position: cognitive sovereignty. It is the digital representation of the way you think — persistently on your machine, owned by you.

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When Polyphemus asks who blinded him, Ulysses answers: οὐθείς — nobody. The Cyclops calls for help: "Nobody has blinded me!" No help comes. Ulysses slips away, clinging to the belly of the ram.

It's a trick, but also a stance: by refusing to be named, captured, pinned down, Odysseus remains free to act.

outheis carries this into AI interaction. The system knows you — but only locally, only under your control, only in service of your work.

The Reality

Every interaction with an AI system leaves traces. Queries reveal interests. Conversations expose thinking patterns. Over time, these traces form a profile — not for your benefit, but for extraction.

The term captured cognition describes this: your mental work, externalized through AI interaction, becomes raw material for systems that don't serve you.

Attention is all you got. It cannot be saved, multiplied, or transferred. Most software is engineered to capture as much of it as possible — notifications, feeds, badges are not bugs but features. The longer you stay, the more is extracted. outheis is built on the opposite premise: help you finish, then get out of the way.

Sovereignty

outheis takes a different position: your cognitive infrastructure belongs to you.

This means:

• Local first — your data stays on your machine
• Transparent operation — append-only logs, no hidden state
• Explicit capabilities — agents declare what they can access
• Portable formats — Markdown and JSON, no lock-in

Not Anti-AI

This isn't a rejection of AI assistance. It's a rejection of the extractive model that currently dominates.

AI can be genuinely helpful: finding connections in your notes, managing complexity, extending memory. But this help shouldn't come at the cost of surveillance.

outheis explores what AI assistance looks like when sovereignty is non-negotiable.

Documentation

→ outheis-labs.github.io/outheis-docs

Installation

Install signal-cli first:

# macOS
brew install signal-cli

# Ubuntu/Debian
apt install signal-cli

Then:

pip install outheis
outheis init

License & Status

AGPL-3.0 / Prototype working since November 2025. Overhaul ongoing, public beta started.

About

Built by Markus Schatzl Reach out if you're interested in the direction — as a user, researcher, collaborator, or investor.