This article provides a hands-on coding guide to explore nanobot, a lightweight personal AI agent framework. It details recreating core subsystems like the agent loop, tool execution, memory persistence, skills loading, session management, subagent spawning, and cron scheduling. The tutorial uses OpenAI’s gpt-4o-mini and demonstrates building a multi-step research pipeline capable of file operations, long-term memory storage, and concurrent background tasks. The goal is to understand not just how to *use* nanobot, but how to *extend* it with custom tools and architectures.
This article details the creation of 'Stevens', a personal AI assistant built using a single SQLite table to store 'memories' and cron jobs to ingest data and generate daily briefs. It emphasizes a simple architecture leveraging Val.town for hosting and highlights the benefits of broader context for personal AI tools.
