elvis builds an experimental personal agent with Pi Durable

elvis says he built a personal agent with pidotdev’s Pi Durable to see how quickly he could make an OpenAI dots-style agent with open-source tools. He describes it as proactive: it can keep working while unattended, remember the user, run jobs on a schedule, wait for approval, and use its own computer.

He says Pi Durable checkpoints every step, so the agent can resume after the process is killed mid-task. Memory lives in durable documents; what the agent learns in one Space survives a crash and carries over to other Spaces, and approvals are durable as well. Each Space gets a full Linux desktop that the agent controls with screenshots, mouse, and keyboard. The model runs through OpenRouter and can be swapped without changing the rest of the setup.

elvis says the project is an experimental setup for testing proactive personal agents. He plans to open-source it after more testing and additional primitives, aiming to make it customizable for others to build on.