Ki's Vibe Coder build

Any always-on box works, but the Mac mini is silent, sips power, and runs the Apple toolchain you need later for the Watch app.

• System Settings → Energy: Prevent automatic sleeping, wake for network access.
• Users & Groups: automatic login, so a reboot comes back without you.
• Enable Remote Login (SSH) and Screen Sharing for the rare time you need to touch it.

Claude Code is the hands of the build: it edits, builds, tests and reports. Log in with your Claude subscription so the assistant brain can reuse the same session later.

This is the heart of the build. The brain is a long-running process on the Mac mini that:

• resumes the same session all day, so it remembers the morning by the evening;
• exposes a tiny HTTP API (/chat, /agent, /notify) for everything else to call;
• stores memory as plain files in a private git repo, distilled nightly.

A second, even smaller process (the "front") accepts all incoming traffic and queues messages while the brain restarts, so nothing is lost.

Do not run the brain under launchd KeepAlive — the Agent SDK does not like being force-restarted mid-turn. A cron line every minute that starts it only if it is not running is boring and works.

One messenger, not five. The bot receives every message through a WebSocket held open by the front process and replies through the REST API. Glasses conversations are mirrored here too, so the chat log is the complete history.

The assistant gets nine tools in Ki's build; these two matter most:

• Todoist: read inbox, add/close tasks, comment on them. Overdue tasks roll to today with a [late:N] marker by a separate cron job that uses no model at all.
• Google Calendar: list today and tomorrow, create events from chat.

Keep capture frictionless: no tags, no dates at capture time. That is the assistant's job.

Install Tailscale on the Mac mini and your phone. Then funnel the front port. Only the front is exposed; the brain stays on localhost.

The glasses are the reason this build feels different. You never take the phone out.

• Pair the G2 with the Even app first, then with the companion iPhone app from the repo (it talks to the glasses over Bluetooth using the community MIT driver).
• Glasses audio → transcriber (Whisper) → POST /agent on the brain → reply rendered on the HUD.
• Keep HUD replies under three lines. Anything longer goes to the chat log.

The R1 ring is optional but lovely: tap to acknowledge, scroll to page through a briefing, hands never leave the coffee.

The repo's apple-watch folder is an XcodeGen project with three targets: iPhone, Watch, and a Mac app. Generate the project, set your team, and run it on your devices.

• Watch records a voice note → iPhone → upload → the brain transcribes and files it.
• Health and activity summaries go to the brain for the morning briefing.
• A Mac app gives you the same chat on the desktop.

You need an Apple Developer account to install on real devices for more than a week.

Each job gets a worktree and a branch named after the task. A shell shim on PATH wraps build commands in a lock at the lowest priority, so the interactive assistant never lags behind a compile. Jobs end with a report: branch, verification, screenshots.