Agentic executive function for people with ADHD.
Your brain drops things. Scaffold catches them.
Scaffold is a personal AI system that replaces the executive function layer most productivity tools assume you already have. It captures, triages, prioritizes, and surfaces what matters — so you don't have to hold it all in your head.
Not a todo app. Not a second brain. An agent that actually does the cognitive work you can't.
- Captures anywhere — text it a thought via Signal, it figures out what to do with it
- Triages automatically — incoming captures get classified, prioritized, and routed without you deciding
- Maintains itself — background processes consolidate, decay, and prune so entropy doesn't win
- Surfaces what matters — a dashboard built around what you should focus on right now, not everything you've ever saved
- Remembers context — a knowledge graph that connects your goals, tasks, notes, and conversations across life domains
- Delegates work — dispatch coding tasks to an agent chain that scouts, plans, builds, and reviews
DASHBOARD
AGENTS
Five surfaces share one SQLite brain:
| Surface | What it does |
|---|---|
| Signal Agent | Conversational AI assistant via Signal. Captures thoughts, answers questions, manages goals/tasks — all through text messages. |
| Desktop | Lightweight web UI — dashboard, inbox, notebooks, search, and a live agent pipeline view. |
| Cortex | Background scheduler that synthesizes context, decays stale info, consolidates duplicates, and detects domain drift. |
| Session Bus | Cross-agent messaging so surfaces can coordinate. |
| Worker | Runs multi-step coding chains (scout → plan → build → review) triggered from Signal or the UI. |
Go daemon · SQLite · Preact + Tailwind frontend · Signal for messaging · Multi-provider LLM routing (Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama) · Ollama embeddings · Google Calendar integration
Scaffold organizes everything into life domains — Health, Career, Creative, etc. Each domain tracks:
- Goals — binary (done/not done), measurable (progress toward a target), or habits (recurring)
- Tasks — with recurring support and completion logging
- Notes — freeform, tagged, searchable
- Health — automatic drift detection flags domains going cold or getting neglected
The desk is intentionally constrained to 3 items max. Position 1 is THE ONE thing to focus on. Positions 2-3 are next up. The cortex populates it via LLM prioritization so you don't have to decide what's most important — it tells you.
- Go 1.25+
- Bun (frontend)
- signal-cli (Signal bridge)
- Ollama (embeddings)
# Backend
cd daemon
cp .env.example .env # fill in your keys
go build -o bin/scaffold-daemon .
./bin/scaffold-daemon
# Frontend
cd app
bun install
bun run devsystemctl --user restart scaffold-daemon.service
systemctl --user restart scaffold-signal-cli.service
journalctl --user -u scaffold-daemon.service -f # tail logs
curl -sS http://127.0.0.1:46873/api/health # health checkAll config lives in config/ as YAML files. Secrets live in daemon/.env. The key one is config/llm.yaml — it controls which LLM provider and model handles each part of the system (conversation, triage, cortex tasks, etc.). Swap providers per-route without touching code.
app/ # Preact + Vite + Tailwind frontend
daemon/ # Go daemon (single binary does everything)
config/ # YAML config files + agent chain prompts
docs/ # Architecture and planning docs
specs/ # Implementation specs
Core system is operational. Signal agent, web desktop, cortex scheduler, session bus, and worker chains are all live. Currently working on hybrid memory search (FTS5 + vector retrieval) and Gmail triage integration.
MIT