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Build Your Own Local Jarvis — Free

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Build Your Own Local Jarvis — Free

A field guide to OpenJarvis: Stanford's open-source, local-first assistant that runs on your own hardware, installs with one command, connects to Gmail and Calendar, and gives you a spoken morning digest — no subscription.

What's inside
  • Open source and local-first, from Stanford
  • One command installs it for your hardware
  • Pick a voice and get a spoken morning digest
  • Connects to Gmail and Google Calendar
  • Cloud models optional for heavier reasoning

A Jarvis You Own, Running on Your Own Hardware

OpenJarvis comes from Stanford's Scaling Intelligence lab. It's a free, open-source, local-first AI assistant: one command installs it for your hardware, you pick a voice, connect your email and calendar, and it triages your inbox. It runs privately on your machine, with no subscription.


Local-First by Design

OpenJarvis runs local models on your own hardware, so it's private and free. Cloud models are optional for heavier tasks. By default, no data leaves your machine.


Install in One Command

curl -fsSL open-jarvis.github.io/OpenJarvis/install.sh | bash
jarvis
jarvis ask "what's on my calendar?"

You can also drop the repo into Claude Code and let it handle the install.


A Spoken Morning Digest

Pick a voice so you stop typing, connect Gmail and Google Calendar, and OpenJarvis reads you a morning digest:

  • The few emails that actually matter, out of the 40 unread
  • The people you've been leaving on read
  • What's on your calendar today

Set Expectations

Email and calendar features need you to connect your Google account. Small local models are good at triage and digests; switch to cloud models for heavy reasoning.


What's in the Guide

What OpenJarvis is, the one-command install, how the voice digest works, when to use local versus cloud models, and a direct link to the repo.

The full field guide is in the PDF.


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