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๐Ÿ“… 06 October 2026 at 02:30 AM UTC

Show HN: Halo โ€“ A Personal AI with On-Device Harness, Memory and Browser Agent

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โšก Executive Takeaways & Intelligence Summary
Halo is privacy focused personal assistant for iOS that uses a custom built agent harness with support to use you existing LLM subscriptions, Wiki based memory system backed by on-device RAG, a full-fledged local browser agent, chat with generative UI and more. TLDR: It's a better version of Hermes/OpenClaw for iOS, without needing a server! The better part is its proactive feature set and UX. --- I started building Halo last year with 3 goals in mind: - Surface whatโ€™s important before I have to ask - Understand my life through the apps I already use - Keep my personal data on my device Privacy is at the core of Halo and that's what sets it apart from other AI assistants. While other popular assistants on iOS save your private data such as emails, messages, etc on their servers, Halo store

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