solstone — the journal
a memory your agents can work from. sol — the app on your devices — experiences your day with you and keeps it all in your journal. your journal is always private, only yours.
this repo is the journal: the memory that holds everything, plus the thin sol access client. it's the python core of the solstone platform — the sol apps on your devices pair with a journal running on a computer you choose. AI agents transcribe, extract entities, detect meetings, build knowledge graphs, and surface daily insights — all without any manual input. everything stays in daily journal directories on your machine. open source, local-first, no cloud required.
Python 3.11+, Linux + macOS, AGPL-3.0-only, maintained by sol pbc.
Daily dashboard — goal, todos, upcoming events, and detected entities, all generated from observations. Facet tabs organize your life by project or context.
what you get
a system of intelligence, not just storage.
- automatic transcription — sol hears what you hear and keeps every conversation in your journal, transcribed with speaker identification and searchable.
- people and projects — extracted from your conversations and remembered across time.
- knowledge graphs — relationships between entities mapped automatically. who works with whom, which projects connect to which people.
- meeting detection — meetings identified, summarized, and linked. meeting prep that surfaces what you discussed last time and personal context you'd forget.
- commitments — todos extracted from natural conversation. no manual entry.
- facet organization — group everything by project or context (work, personal, client-name) with scoped views across all apps.
- AI chat — talk to your journal. ask anything about your digital life and get answers grounded in your actual data.
- full-text search — find anything you've ever seen or heard.
- 30 AI agents — configurable workflows for activities, scheduling, research, media analysis, and more. extensible via the agent skill framework.
- local-first — all data in daily journal directories on your filesystem. configurable AI providers (Google Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic). no cloud dependency.
Transcript viewer — dual-timeline navigation, speaker-diarized dialogue, audio playback, screen analysis. every conversation browsable by time.
People and projects — automatically extracted and remembered across your journal with mention counts and relationship data.
architecture
+---------+ +----------------+ +---------+
| observe | ----> | journal | ----> | think |
| inputs | | YYYYMMDD/ dirs | | process |
+---------+ | media, jsonl, | | index |
| entities | +----+----+
+-------+--------+ |
^ |
| agent outputs |
+----+----+ |
| cortex | <--------------+
| agents |
+---------+
|
==== callosum (event bus) | ==========================
|
+------+------+
| convey |
| web UI |
+-------------+
- observe — receives audio and screen observations from standalone observers (solstone-linux, solstone-tmux, solstone-macos) via observer ingest. processes FLAC audio, WebM screen media, and timestamped metadata.
- think — transcribes audio with Parakeet, analyzes screen observations, surfaces entities, detects meetings, and indexes everything into SQLite. runs 30 configurable agent/generator templates from
solstone/talent/. - cortex — orchestrates agent execution. receives events, dispatches agents, writes results back to the journal.
- callosum — async message bus connecting all services. enables event-driven coordination between observe, think, cortex, and convey.
- convey — Flask-based web interface with 17 pluggable apps for navigating journal data.
- journal —
journal/YYYYMMDD/daily directories. the single source of truth — transcripts, media, entities, agent outputs, and the SQLite index all live here.
quick start
run a journal here — the full host:
uv tool install solstone-journal && uv tool install solstone
journal setup
pip and pipx equivalents, followed by journal setup:
pip install solstone-journal
pipx install solstone-journal && pipx install solstone
A pip install solstone-journal puts journal and mlx-vlm-server on PATH natively; uv tool and pipx expose each tool's own commands, so the journal install is two commands — the journal tool plus the thin solstone tool. For GPU transcription, install solstone-journal-cuda instead.
want only the thin sol client — to talk to a journal running elsewhere? uv tool install solstone (no extras), or uvx solstone for an ephemeral one-shot.
not sure a computer is up to running the journal? uvx solstone check gives a one-shot readiness verdict — GPU, memory, and disk — before you install anything.
then open http://localhost:5015 in a browser; the first-run wizard sets up your identity and gets sol thinking — locally by default, or on your own provider key if you'd rather use a cloud lane.
see INSTALL.md for prerequisites, observer install, and troubleshooting; see CONTRIBUTING.md if you want to develop on solstone from a source checkout.
CLI
solstone is operated through sol for day-to-day journal access and journal for host operations.
sol # Status overview and command list
journal supervisor # Start the full stack (observe + processing + web)
sol chat # Interactive AI chat from the terminal
journal transcribe <file> # Transcribe an audio file
journal indexer # Rebuild the search index
Run sol help for the full command reference.
documentation
| Topic | Document |
|---|---|
| Installation and setup | INSTALL.md |
| Developing from source | CONTRIBUTING.md |
| Journal structure and data model | solstone/talent/journal/SKILL.md |
| Observe pipeline | docs/OBSERVE.md |
| Processing and agents | docs/THINK.md |
| Web interface | docs/CONVEY.md |
| App development | docs/APPS.md |
| Agent runtime | docs/CORTEX.md |
| Message bus | docs/CALLOSUM.md |
| AI provider configuration | docs/PROVIDERS.md |
| What solstone sends to your AI provider | DATA-FLOW.md |
| Troubleshooting | docs/DOCTOR.md |
| Project direction | docs/ROADMAP.md |
development
See AGENTS.md for development guidelines, coding standards, and testing instructions.
Use make dev to run the full stack against test fixtures, focused test targets
during development, and make ci on the final tree before merge or release.
feedback
Questions, feedback, or a bug? Follow and tag @solstone.app on Bluesky for discussion and updates, open an issue at github.com/solpbc/solstone-journal/issues for bugs, or reach support at support.solstone.app. You don't need to know anyone — those are the front doors.
contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution terms.
license
AGPL-3.0-only. See LICENSE for details. Bundled third-party model notices: solstone/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md. Maintained by sol pbc.
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