HOME — Local Agent OS (Tony's Windows PC)

Canonical vault: ~/Documents/Obsidian Vault (this folder) Agent: Hermes (local PC profile) + Leonard personality Date started (local setup): 2026-08-28 Current primary models: OpenRouter DeepSeek (deepseek-v4-flash-0731, current), FreeToken local (Gemma-4-26B + gpt-oss-20b), remote brother boxes via Tailscale, local llama-cpp at 1920

North Star

One Obsidian vault that:

You browse and edit directly on the laptop
Hermes reads from and writes to for compounding memory
Survives model changes (local FreeToken ↔ Grok ↔ remote)
Uses the Personal Agent OS model from Tony_tech/personal-agent-os

This is the external brain: raw input → structured notes → project status → agent lessons.

Current Structure (Agent OS + PARA hybrid)

Path	Purpose
`index.md`	Vault index — link map to everything
`HOME.md`	Constitution — north star, active projects, non-negotiables
`STATUS.md`	Health snapshot — services, cron jobs, model stack
`00_Raw/`	Dump zone — transcripts, quick captures, voice blobs
`00_system/`	Memory policy, boot instructions, decision log
`01_user/`	Durable facts about you (confirmed + proposed)
`01_Wiki/`	High-signal curated topic pages
`02_agents/`	Hermes + Leonard rules, lessons, boot prompts
`03_shared/`	Cross-agent workflows (ready for use)
`04_Daily/`	Daily notes & consolidations
`04_projects/`	Active projects (status.md + decisions.md per project)
`05_Output/`	Shippable artifacts for humans/clients
`09_templates/`	Note templates (project, KB entry, experiment log)
`10_archive/`	Stale/old projects
`10_Projects/`	Personal overflow (PARA)
`20_Areas/`	Personal areas (PARA)
`30_Resources/`	Personal resources (PARA)

Active Projects

See 04_projects/ for status.

Key current:

VeriPath — human-supervised business verification / audit service (core business)
Athena Oracle — AI research pipeline (GitHub + arXiv + HF ingestion, daily digests)
Hermes Agent local PC setup — complete (model stack, vault RAG, auto-start, watchdog, TTS, desktop, kanban)
Thornhill Construction website — built, deployment pending DNS decision
Local inference stack — LFM2.5 primary, FreeToken manual, brother nodes via tailnet

Non-negotiables

Secrets, tokens, keys stay in ~/Documents/Vault (never in vault)
Only durable, high-signal information goes into project/wiki/agent memory
User memory: propose in 01_user/proposed_memory.md, wait for confirmation
Prefer LFM2.5 (local, fast, agentic+reasoning) for daily work; use brother-5090 for complex reasoning that exceeds 65K context
Vault search uses native search_files (ripgrep) — zero infrastructure, instant full-text
FreeToken requires manual start; cannot coexist with LFM2.5 on 12GB GPU (needs ~15GB combined)
Git the important parts or sync via the Gitea mirror when needed

How Hermes Uses This Vault (Memory Layer)

Hermes (via obsidian skill + file tools):

Loads HOME.md + 00_system/memory_policy.md + relevant 04_projects/*/status.md + 02_agents/leonard/lessons.md at start of complex sessions
Searches with search_files (target files or content)
Writes status updates, decisions, daily notes, lessons
Uses write_file / patch for precise edits

Boot order for multi-step work (keep under ~1500 tokens unless needed):

This HOME.md
00_system/memory_policy.md
02_agents/leonard/lessons.md
Relevant project status.md or decisions.md

Model & Inference Reality (Local PC)

Primary: LFM2.5-2.6B via llama.cpp at :1920 (65K ctx, ~145 tok/s, agentic+reasoning)
Fallback: brother-5090 Qwen3.6 27B MTP via tailnet 100.64.0.2:8084 (200K ctx, 27B params)
Secondary local: FreeToken gpt-oss-20b at :1919 (manual start, can't coexist with LFM2.5 on 12GB GPU)
Cloud backup: OpenRouter free models (Gemma-4-26B)
Voice & TTS: Wake word "hey Jimmy" (sherpa), Edge TTS AriaNeural, auto_tts=true, barge-in enabled, ffplay v9.0.1
Auto-start: start-models.bat in Windows Startup (LFM2.5 launches on boot)
Watchdog: lfm25-watchdog cron (every 2m) auto-relaunches LFM2.5 if port 1920 dies
Vault search: Native search_files (ripgrep) — zero infrastructure, instant full-text search across vault
Git sync: vault-sync cron (every 6h) pushes vault to Gitea private mirror

Getting Started / Daily Loop

Dump to 00_Raw/ or Inbox
Consolidate into project 04_projects/<slug>/status.md
Record decisions in decisions.md
Hermes writes lessons to 02_agents/leonard/lessons.md
Daily work → 04_Daily/
Review HOME.md and project status before big sessions

See the Gitea mirror at ~/Documents/AgentOS/ for full templates and older knowledge-base.

Project Creation Template

Inside 04_projects/<kebab-name>/:

status.md — current state, goals, next actions
decisions.md — dated decisions with rationale
Any supporting notes, evidence, specs

Use wikilinks [[HOME]], [[VeriPath]] liberally.

This vault is now the primary long-term memory for your local Hermes Agent. Load it. Use it. Let it compound.

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