Open-source research project

AI can do more than ever. Your attention is still the bottleneck.

Hoomy is an open-source AI companion that learns what helps you thrive—and when to act, ask, or stay quiet.

Working note 01 · September 2026

ideas

agents

projects

obligations

your attention

Fig. 01 — Competing demands around one finite attention budget.
First experiment

Starting with coding agents

An attention layer across your coding agents.

Surfacing what deserves your attention next.

It will learn from the work traces they already leave behind, across machines and projects with different goals, rhythms, and constraints.

Built in the open

Personal AI should be open, inspectable, and under your control.

01Your raw work stays local.

02You choose what Hoomy sees.

03Anyone can inspect it, adapt it, and run the whole system themselves.

Where we are

Early, deliberately.

The work will unfold through open research, system designs, and small working experiments.

Xavier Basset

Research context

For over a decade, I’ve built AI assistants around one question: how can technology understand people while remaining worthy of their trust?

I’m Xavier Basset. Hoomy continues that work, in the open.

If that resonates, contact me at contact+hoomy (at) xbasset.com.