Catch up time!
If you're new here, you may be wondering
what exactly the hell is going on?
That's fair. TOTALLY,
This started simple: could I build something that feels less like a chatbot and more like a member of the household? Also teaching tool - Story WAAAAY up there - feel free.
Most systems know facts. People live in context.
Now - If I tell you we're having friends over Saturday night, you immediately start thinking about food, music, food, shopping, guests, more food, schedules, "where's my wok?", and if you're my wife, whether the house is ready. Nobody explains how those things connect. They just... DO.
Current assistants don't really work that way. They answer questions and commands. In fairness, OK some of the commercial ones based on models can get a little farther than that if you're willing to hand over a frankly alarming amount of information about your life. Where you are. When you're home. What you buy. How you use electricity. What you cook. Who visits. What your routines look like.
YES, you absolutely CAN give control of your HA install to a loop agent (any openclaw hermes agentzero, paperclip WTHever...) points HALMark is over there - yes, I'm about to update it for 2026.6.0 please use it - and I hope you are very good at Devops. smiles Enjoy your dragons.
(Admittedly FUN dragons, but if you don't know what you're doing. YOU CAN get hurt...That's as far as I take that. I also ride motorcycles. Risks exist.)
This thread is what happens when you decide to keep that information, build the plumbing yourself, expose to it as many deep connections in your data - as safely as possible (in a way you KNOW it works) and see how far down the rabbit hole goes. SO.
If you'd like to wander into the dunes with the rest of us:
- Zenos Base Repo: https://github.com/nathan-curtis/zenos-ai
- Getting Started: https://github.com/nathan-curtis/zenos-ai/blob/08113cf99b07ed6739db0ea9991be8507783a2f5/zenos_ai/docs/getting_started/readme.md
- All Your Docs Belong to Us: https://github.com/nathan-curtis/zenos-ai/blob/08113cf99b07ed6739db0ea9991be8507783a2f5/zenos_ai/docs/readme.md
Current as of this post: Zenos: 2026.6.0 / Cortex: 42.1 HA: 2026.6.0
Before diving into the latest madness, a few thread landmarks are worth a look:
Post #1: The Front Door
What Friday is, what "agentic" means in this build, and why tools plus context are the whole game.
Post #15: Poetry in Motion
The prompt-craft thesis. Intent, urgency, mood, dense language, and why "brief" often fails when the model needs a root concept.
Post #34: Ninjas
The first real look at summarization, Kung Fu, Katas, and attention management.
Post #42: Ninja 2, Electric Boogaloo
The scheduler and context-selection leap. Early autonomy scaffolding.
Post #49: Limits, Gov'na
Context budgets, aliases, tool descriptions, entity exposure, and why "just expose everything" eventually falls apart.
Post #55: Meet Kronk / The Monastery
Friday, Kronk, expert workers, queued jobs, specialist models, and one of the biggest architectural pivots in the project.
Post #120: Storing Elephants in Drawers
Cabinets, drawers, pointers, inherited context, and memory as infrastructure.
Post #234: Sand Dune Plinko
Grounding, hallucination control, directives, identity lanes, Katas, and making truth the easy path.
Post #261: Hyper-huh?
Why Home Assistant stops looking like a giant pile of entities and starts looking like a connected world.
Post #456: Stop Putting SOPs in Your Cortex
The modern ZenOS pattern: label it, write a KFC, store it in the right cabinet, index it, expand it when needed.
Fair warning: there are elephants in here. Some are obvious. Some are hiding behind the architecture diagrams.
The current focus is the kitchen.
Before Friday can help run a household, she should probably be able to help run dinner.
Everything else in this thread is what happens when that idea collides with Home Assistant, too much coffee, and entirely insufficient adult supervision.
OK so all that out of the way, what's NEXT?
(Now):
2026.6.1+
- Post Release bug reports
- Tighten Inventory - Index Linkage, Mealie >> Kitchen and AdminTools Kitchen sync. So I can start actually USING it the way I want to for reals...
- Add 'reports' view [working_name] (Think exec staff rollups - what does your boss want to know?)
- formally link zone_home to default_household in the graph and force index of same. (Yes I'm hardwiring this one once the default household resolved - reasons)
(Planned):
2026.7.0+
- Cabinetception, like - what if, a cabinet drawer was, like, another cabinet - maaaaan...
(Ongoing):
- MOAR SP1 security plumbing.
- Cabinet ACLs
- Cabinet read normalization
- Index Masking (limited hidden / private labels)
- Query Mask (policy based filters)
- OIDC/PKI
- Tool capability registration
Gonna go finish this Mealie Kitchen thing. 
Eat food.., Touch grass or something.
Cheers!
yeah… it's that. )
Challenge Accepted.