Video by Hugging Face via YouTube
Build your own dots-style, always-on AI assistants with Pi and pi-gateway, using your choice of models on a VPS or another always-on machine. This tutorial walks through agent workspaces, skills, Google Workspace access, and a Telegram message gateway with local SQLite session routing. See a personal assistant and a research agent in action, then learn where to extend the gateway with more platforms and automations; those extensions are future work, not built-in features demonstrated here.
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🔗 *Links*
– pi-gateway: https://github.com/alejandro-ao/pi-gateway/
– Tau: https://github.com/huggingface/tau
– Pi: https://pi.dev/
– OpenAI dots: https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/
– Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/
– Hermes Agent: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent
– OpenClaw: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw
– Google Workspace CLI: https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli
– Firecrawl: https://www.firecrawl.dev/
– Herdr: https://github.com/alejandro-ao/herdr
– Telegram bot tutorial: https://core.telegram.org/bots/tutorial
– BotFather: https://t.me/BotFather
– Telegram user ID helper (third-party): https://t.me/userinfobot
– OpenRouter: https://openrouter.ai/
– Space Bunny Alpha: https://openrouter.ai/stealth/space-bunny-alpha
– Kimi K3: https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3
– NVIDIA DGX Spark: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-spark/
– uv: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/
– SQLite: https://www.sqlite.org/
– Model Context Protocol: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/
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🤓 *Topics Covered*
– Always-on agents with custom workspaces and skills
– Telegram gateways and persistent session routing
– Personal assistant and research agent demos
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⏱️ *Timestamps*
0:00 Build your own open-source dots
1:55 Setting up always-on agents and workspaces
3:49 Adding skills and Google Workspace access
5:20 Testing your personal assistant with Pi and Tau
7:12 Message gateway architecture and session routing
11:42 Installing pi-gateway
12:43 Connecting Telegram and configuring your assistant
15:03 Starting the gateway and chatting with your agent
16:56 Adding a research agent with Kimi K3
19:09 Recap and ideas for extending the gateway
👋 *Connect with me*
My website: https://alejandro-ao.com/
X (Twitter): https://x.com/_alejandroao
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandro-ao/