{"slug": "vaenyx-a-personal-ai-app-for-family", "title": "Vaenyx – A personal AI app for family", "summary": "Vaenyx, a self-hosted, local-first personal AI agent for households, is now available as a pre-1.0 release, with data stored in a local SQLite database and support for cloud or local model backends. The app, which runs on Windows via an installer or zip, offers chat, projects, memory, pluggable backends (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, or local endpoints), Methods & Routines, a Community Library, scheduled tasks, and backup/restore, all accessible at http://localhost:3000.", "body_md": "**A self-hosted, local-first personal AI agent for your household.** Vaenyx\nruns on your own machine: your chats, memory, projects, tasks and files stay in\na local SQLite database under your control, and you choose which AI model\nbackend it talks to — a cloud provider under your own account, or a local model\non your own hardware.\n\nStatus: pre-1.0, under active development. Interfaces and data formats may still change between versions.\n\n**The installer (recommended).** Download `vaenyx-setup.exe` from the\n[latest release](https://github.com/vaenyxai/core/releases/latest) and run it.\nIf Windows shows a blue \"Windows protected your PC\" box, click **More info**,\nthen **Run anyway** — the download is new and not yet signed; nothing is\nwrong. The wizard asks for a language and an install folder (default\n`C:\\Vaenyx`), sets everything up, starts Vaenyx, and leaves a **Vaenyx** icon\non the desktop. Uninstall from Windows Apps & features; it asks whether to\nkeep your data, and keeping it is the default.\n\n**The zip (no installer).** Download `vaenyx-setup.zip` instead, unzip it\nanywhere sensible (not a cloud-synced folder), read `Read-Me-First.txt`, and\ndouble-click **`Vaenyx-Setup.cmd`** — the same setup, without a wizard.\n\nEither way Vaenyx ends up at `http://localhost:3000` in your browser, and the\napp keeps itself up to date from inside Settings.\n\nCloning this repository with git also works (see below) and is the right path\nfor development — but note that a git checkout deliberately does **not**\nself-update from releases; it updates with `git pull`. The release zip is the\ninstall every guide and the website assume.\n\n- **Chat + projects + memory** — a personal assistant that keeps its context on\nyour machine, organised into projects with reviewable memory.\n- **Pluggable model backends** — OpenAI (Codex CLI or API key), Anthropic\nClaude, Google Gemini, or any OpenAI-compatible local endpoint (Ollama,\nLM Studio); pick a default and switch per chat.\n- **Methods & Routines** — declarative building blocks (Methods) composed into\nready-to-use products (Routines) that run locally: feed one something, it\nruns its steps and keeps a log.\n- **Community Library** — browse and install Methods/Routines shared by the\ncommunity; publish your own under a display name you choose. Community\ncontent is declarative-only: installing it never installs or runs code.\n- **Scheduled tasks** — recurring runs with history, retry and cancel.\n- **Backup & restore** — one-click snapshots of your database and library,\nstored locally.\n\nYour instance's data lives in `userdata/` on your machine and is never\ncommitted or uploaded by Vaenyx. Chats you send to a **cloud** model provider\ndo reach that provider under its own terms — that routing is your choice, per\nchat. Using the Community Library needs no account; publishing uses a Google or\nGitHub sign-in, with a self-chosen public display name. The formal terms,\nprivacy policy and contributor terms live in [`docs/legal/`](/vaenyxai/core/blob/main/docs/legal) and\ninside the app under Settings → Legal.\n\nRequirements: Node.js ≥ 24, npm ≥ 11.\n\n1. Double-click `Vaenyx-Start.cmd` .\n2. Open `http://localhost:3000` if the browser does not open automatically.\n3. Stop from Settings → Stop Vaenyx (or `Vaenyx-Stop.cmd` ).\n\n`Vaenyx-Backup.cmd` snapshots your data; `Vaenyx-Update.cmd` updates from the\nconfigured Git remote. See the\n[Windows guide](/vaenyxai/core/blob/main/docs/WINDOWS-MINI-PC-GUIDE.zh-CN.md) and the\n[migration guide](/vaenyxai/core/blob/main/docs/MIGRATE-TO-NEW-PC.zh-CN.md).\n\nThe server binds to `127.0.0.1` only. For phone access use an authenticated\ntunnel (e.g. Tailscale) — never expose the port directly to the internet.\n\n```\nnpm ci\nnpm run dev      # Fastify server + Vite web dev servers\nnpm run check    # lint, typecheck, tests, build\n```\n\nStack: React/Vite web app · Fastify server · shared TypeBox contracts ·\nSQLite. See [CONTRIBUTING.md](/vaenyxai/core/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).\n\nFree code signing provided by [SignPath.io](https://signpath.io),\ncertificate by [SignPath Foundation](https://signpath.org).\n\n**Roles:**\n\n- Committers and reviewers: [vaenyxai organisation members](https://github.com/orgs/vaenyxai/people)\n- Approvers: [vaenyxai organisation owners](https://github.com/orgs/vaenyxai/people?query=role%3Aowner)\n\n**Privacy policy:** Vaenyx runs on your own machine. It does not transfer\nany information to other networked systems unless specifically requested\nby the user or the person installing or operating it — see\n[Privacy Policy](/vaenyxai/core/blob/main/docs/legal/privacy-policy.md) for the full statement,\nincluding the third-party AI providers you may choose to connect.\n\nCode: [MIT](/vaenyxai/core/blob/main/LICENSE). Third-party dependencies:\n[THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md](/vaenyxai/core/blob/main/THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md) (regenerated every release).\nThe \"Vaenyx\" name and brand assets are **not** MIT-licensed — see\n[TRADEMARKS.md](/vaenyxai/core/blob/main/TRADEMARKS.md) and the\n[Trademark Policy](/vaenyxai/core/blob/main/docs/legal/trademark-policy.md); forks must rebrand.\nCommunity-published content is CC BY 4.0 under the Contributor Agreement.\n\nSecurity reports: [SECURITY.md](/vaenyxai/core/blob/main/SECURITY.md).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vaenyx-a-personal-ai-app-for-family", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/vaenyxai/core", "published_at": "2026-09-08 10:09:52+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-08 10:34:06.667052+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-agents", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Vaenyx", "OpenAI", "Anthropic Claude", "Google Gemini", "Ollama", "LM Studio", "Fastify", "SQLite"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vaenyx-a-personal-ai-app-for-family", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vaenyx-a-personal-ai-app-for-family.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vaenyx-a-personal-ai-app-for-family.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vaenyx-a-personal-ai-app-for-family.jsonld"}}