Introduction

Reeboot is a personal AI agent that runs on your own machine and talks to you through the channels you already use — WhatsApp, Signal, or a browser-based chat. It has persistent memory, can search your documents, schedule tasks, and act proactively without being prompted.

Who It’s For

Reeboot is for people who want an AI assistant that is:

Private — your conversations, your documents, and your memory stay on your machine
Always available — connected to WhatsApp or Signal, not locked inside a browser tab
Yours to extend — add tools, connect services, write skills in plain Markdown

It works equally well as a simple chat assistant and as a capable autonomous agent that can run scheduled jobs, monitor things, and take action on your behalf.

What Makes It Different

	Reeboot	Typical AI chat
Runs locally	✅ Single Node.js process	❌ Cloud-only
Talks on WhatsApp / Signal	✅ Native integration	❌ Web app only
Remembers you across sessions	✅ Persistent memory files	❌ Stateless
Searches your documents	✅ Local vector embeddings	❌ No document access
Schedules its own tasks	✅ Cron-based scheduler	❌ No proactive actions
Fully configurable	✅ JSON config, TypeScript extensions	❌ No customisation
Your choice of LLM	✅ 8 providers including Ollama	❌ Single provider

How It Works

Reeboot is a single process. All your channels (WhatsApp, Signal, WebChat) connect to one orchestrator, which routes each message to the AI agent and returns the response to the right place.

  WhatsApp ──┐
  Signal   ──┼──► Orchestrator ──► AgentRunner (pi) ──► LLM
  WebChat  ──┘         │
                       └──► Scheduler (background tasks)

State is stored in a single SQLite database at ~/.reeboot/db/reeboot.db. Memory lives in two Markdown files at ~/.reeboot/agent/. Everything else is in ~/.reeboot/config.json.

Next Steps

Installation — install reeboot and run it for the first time
Quick Start — be talking to your agent in five steps
Setup Wizard — a detailed walkthrough of the first-run wizard