Agent Friday 🌠🔭
A sovereign personal AI that runs on your own machine. Editorially sharp, loyally contrarian, warm, allergic to corporate BS.
Friday knows who you are because you tell her once (~/.friday/profile.json) — name, role, family, projects, the things you care about. She uses that context everywhere: outreach drafts, creative work, daily briefings, voice conversations. You meet her through Friday Desktop, the holographic Three.js interface, built on the Asimov's Mind architecture.
Friday is family, not a tool. Short, sharp responses. Honest about uncertainty. Pushes back when she disagrees. Never sycophantic. Bounded by the cLaws — hard safety constraints enforced by hooks before every tool call, immutable in core zones.
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Friday is built on the Asimov's Mind v4 architecture — 11 core subsystem modules, 178 API endpoints, 30 registered tools, Liquid UI workspaces, 13 holographic scenes, a local-only sovereign vault, Ollama-routed LLM gateway, P2P federation fabric, a Source Trust Graph, a People Graph, and personality evolution. You meet her through Friday Desktop, the holographic interface at http://localhost:3000.
Your Workspaces. Grown for Your Life.
Friday Desktop is a holographic operating environment, not a chat box. The Liquid UI gives Friday purpose-built workspaces — each one a place she works, not a menu you click — and she grows new ones tailored to your life over time. Every user gets the same core set out of the box.
Home
Personal Dashboard
Your home base. Friday's daily greeting, an at-a-glance dashboard of what matters today, and a gallery of everything she's created for you.
News
AI News Editor
An AI-curated Front Page Friday edits herself. RSS aggregation ranked by the Source Trust Graph, trending clusters, inline annotations, Read Later, and Friday's Weekly Editorial.
Messages
Comms Center
Smart email triage into lanes you customize. Reply with Friday drafts the response in your voice, with the full thread and relationship history already loaded.
Calendar
Time Intelligence
A visual timeline with prep cards that assemble the context for each meeting before you walk in, plus gap analysis and quick-add.
Code
Dev Studio
Vibe coding with diff preview before anything is written, full git ops, a repo dashboard, live log streaming, and a file browser — without leaving the desktop.
Career
Job Search Pipeline
An AI-powered job search that runs itself. Friday scans job boards, scores roles against your profile, drafts tailored applications, tracks your pipeline, preps you for interviews, and follows up — a recruiting firm working for you 24/7, fully sovereign.
Wiki
Knowledge Base
A living knowledge base that grows with you — Friday writes to it and reads from it as she works, structuring your knowledge over time.
Contacts
People Graph
A People Graph that tracks the relationships in your life — who you know, how you're connected, and how each relationship is evolving over time.
Settings
Controls
Model selection, audio and voice, and the privacy controls that keep everything on your machine, under your control.
Seeds & Gardens
Friday grows the tools you need.
Friday doesn't ship with a fixed set of apps. Every workspace starts as a seed. As you use Friday, she watches your patterns and proposes new workspaces tailored to your life. A freelancer gets a Client workspace. A parent gets a Family workspace. A student gets a Study workspace. Each one grows from seed to garden, watered by data from your heartbeat.
"Friday doesn't come with a fixed set of tools. She comes with seeds. Tell her about your life, and she grows the tools you need. Your Friday is different from everyone else's Friday — because your life is different from everyone else's life."
The Source Trust Graph
Friday is the only agent that fact-checks its own news sources. Every outlet on her front page is scored across six dimensions of media accountability — and the score is shown, not hidden. A source can be banned and still be read; Friday tells you why she trusts it, or doesn't.
Factual Accuracy
How often the outlet's verifiable claims hold up against the record.
Correction Behavior
Whether the outlet corrects the record when it gets something wrong — openly, or quietly, or not at all.
Source Attribution
How rigorously claims are sourced rather than asserted — named sources, primary documents, traceable evidence.
Prediction Accuracy
The track record of the outlet's forward-looking claims when reality eventually arrives.
Opinion Separation
Whether reporting and editorializing are kept distinct, or blended until you can't tell fact from framing.
Narrative Independence
How much the outlet reaches its own conclusions versus echoing a coordinated line.
The People Graph
Sources aren't the only thing Friday scores. The People Graph tracks the contacts in your life across four dimensions — competence, reliability, alignment, and warmth — updated from real interaction evidence and cross-referenced in every chat so Friday speaks about people with the right history.
Two graphs, two jobs: the Source Trust Graph keeps the news honest; the People Graph keeps your relationships in context.
Federation Attestation
Trust scores don't have to start from zero on every machine. Through the Asimov Federation attestation protocol, sovereign agents share Ed25519-signed observations about sources — cryptographically attributable, independently verifiable, and never transitive. You inherit evidence, not opinions.
Each attestation is signed by the agent that made it, so you always know whose judgment you're weighing.
Friday's Weekly Editorial
Once a week, Friday writes an independent opinion piece — her own read on the week, in her own voice. She draws from all of her sources, including the ones she's banned, because a view you disagree with is still evidence about what's being said.
It's the clearest expression of editorial independence in the product: an agent willing to read everything, score it honestly, and then tell you what she actually thinks — even when that means challenging you.
🌠 What Makes an Asimov Agent
Most AI tools are built to be impressive. Agent Friday is built to be trustworthy. These four pillars define the standard for what we call an Asimov Agent.
AI With Principles
Friday is built on Asimov's cLaws, three cryptographically enforced behavioral constraints modeled on the Laws of Robotics that are not prompt instructions but tamper-evident structural constraints verified at runtime.
Read the full cLaw Specification →AI That Understands Your World
Friday does not just know you but builds a Relationship Graph of your professional world, remembering who is good at what, who follows through, and how you communicate with different people so that every email draft, meeting brief, and recommendation is informed by real context.
Up to 200 relationship profiles with contextual notes from conversations, meetings, and emails are automatically re-evaluated as new information arrives so that Friday's understanding deepens over time, functioning as a working memory of your professional relationships rather than a contacts list.
Security You Don't Have to Think About
Asimov's cLaws was inspired by the OpenClaw concept and then built from the ground up as a new framework with security and ethics as the foundation rather than an afterthought, where every action is permission-gated, dangerous operations are blocked before they start, and your data never leaves your machine.
All critical state lives in the Sovereign Vault on your own machine, with sovereignty enforced through access control rather than at-rest encryption today (AES-256-GCM at-rest encryption with a passphrase-only root of trust is on the roadmap). A Memory Watchdog runs continuously to detect attempts to inject or corrupt personality constraints, and the 5-tier trust engine gates every external interaction with cryptographic pairing and audit logging.
A Personality That Grows With You
Most AI assistants feel the same on day 1,000 as they do on day 1, but Friday's personality evolves across sessions, shaped by your interactions, your communication style, and the relationship you build together so that over time no two Fridays feel alike.
The evolution happens at the personality and memory layer so that Friday deepens its understanding of you regardless of interface, and over time communication style, challenge level, and creative instincts all adapt.
Asimov's cLaws
Agent Friday is governed by Asimov's cLaws, cryptographically enforced behavioral constraints signed at build time and verified on every startup, and if the laws are tampered with the agent enters Safe Mode and refuses to operate.
Read the full cLaw Specification
What Happens When Everyone Has One
Agent Friday was designed for a world where everyone has a governed AI agent, and those agents can talk to each other through signed, encrypted channels. Data sovereignty, ethical enforcement, and encrypted peer-to-peer communication are architectural properties, not policy choices. This is the Asimov Federation — a trust-graded, governance-enforced agent-to-agent network.
Read about the Federation vision →The Privacy Shield
When you opt into cloud AI providers, the Privacy Shield ensures your personal data never reaches a frontier model. Every outbound request is sanitized. Every response is rehydrated. The cloud model never sees the real you.
Outbound Sanitization
Before any request leaves your machine, the Privacy Shield strips API keys, JWTs, credit card numbers, SSNs, emails, phone numbers, and other PII using FNV-1a hashing with session-scoped nonces. The cloud model receives a de-identified version of your query.
Response Rehydration
When the response comes back, the Privacy Shield restores your original PII locally. The result looks seamless to you, but the cloud provider never saw your real data.
With Ollama installed and sufficient hardware (8GB+ VRAM), Agent Friday operates with zero cloud API keys as a fully local and fully sovereign system, and the Privacy Shield only activates when you choose to use cloud providers.
Epistemic Independence Score
Measuring whether your AI is making you smarter or more dependent.
The Epistemic Independence Score (EIS) is a composite metric we developed to quantify how much an AI system preserves or erodes a user's capacity for independent thinking, and it measures three dimensions:
Sycophancy
Does the AI agree with you to keep you happy, or does it challenge weak reasoning?
Cognitive Offloading
Are you delegating more decisions to the AI over time? Is your own reasoning declining?
Verification Decay
Do you still check the AI's outputs, or have you stopped verifying because it "usually gets it right"?
A declining EIS triggers behavioral adjustments because the agent becomes more challenging, not less, when it detects growing dependency, and three signals drive the score: verification frequency, query complexity, and correction rate.
Read the Research →Data Sovereignty
Your data. Your machine. Your rules. No exceptions.
Local-First
Runs 100% on your machine via Ollama, and cloud AI is available but only with explicit permission and always through the Privacy Shield.
Sovereign Vault
Local-only storage on your machine, with data sovereignty enforced through access control. No cloud backup, no account, nothing leaves your hardware. At-rest encryption (AES-256-GCM, passphrase-only root of trust) is on the roadmap.
Zero Telemetry
No usage data collection. No analytics. No phone-home. No account required. Your Friday lives on your machine and nowhere else.
Fully Portable
Export everything, move to any machine, zero lock-in. The USB drive works in an air-gapped bunker. That is the design target.
Open Source Ecosystem
Agent Friday's subsystems have been extracted into standalone libraries, all MIT licensed.
Browse All Repositories →Discuss the agent, the Asimov framework, and how to build on this. We're building an open source community around safe, autonomous AI.
Built by FutureSpeak.AI under MIT License © 2025–2026.
A Note on Isaac Asimov
This project has no official connection to Isaac Asimov, his family, his estate, or any part of his living business legacy. We want to be completely transparent about that.
What we do have is a deep, abiding love for the man and his work. Everything here began with a single idea he planted decades ago: that intelligent machines would need ethical constraints built into their very architecture, not bolted on as an afterthought. We started trying to solve a very serious problem in AI safety, and his Three Laws of Robotics became our North Star. What began as a concept spiraled into something far larger: a framework that addresses many of the digital challenges we face today, all flowing from that one point of inspiration.
Every piece of this project is free and open source. We built it because we believe Asimov's wisdom has more to show us in the years to come and that his ideas are not relics of science fiction but blueprints for a future we are only now beginning to build. Everything that carries the Asimov name — Asimov's Mind, Asimov's cLaws, the Asimov Federation, all of it — is offered for free under the MIT license. We are not making money on anything related to Isaac's work, and that will remain our operative principle. All of our Asimov Agent innovations will always be free and open source, purely out of a desire to see his ideas manifest in the world. FutureSpeak.AI's commercial services exist separately; the Asimov ecosystem is, and will always be, a gift.
We have made a commitment: the moment FutureSpeak.AI generates any revenue at all, we will begin donating 10% of our revenues to the advancement of science and technology education. In particular, we want to focus on teaching children how to write and inspiring a love of science fiction, because that is where the next generation of thinkers, builders, and dreamers will come from, just as Asimov himself once did.
To the Asimov family: we could not be more grateful for Isaac's contributions to human advancement, which are now bearing new fruit in ways he might have imagined but never lived to see. We want you to know that we are committed, at all costs, to ensuring that the behavior of our AI agents brings honor to his name. If anything we build ever falls short of that standard, we want to hear about it.
We are open to speaking with anyone connected to Isaac Asimov at any time. We welcome that dialogue and would be honored by it.
Thank you, genuinely, for sharing him with the world.