One assistant for the whole family. Each person chooses who hears what they tell it.

AGI For Us will run Claude for every adult in your household, on a computer you own. It will remember what your family tells it and help each of you, on your own projects and on each other's. Each person sets the rules for what it may pass on. Free and open source. Coming soon.

Get news when it's ready

Setting it up for your family? See how it works.

For adults 18 and over. Each person needs their own Claude plan, Pro or higher.

Mother

  • The reunion moved to Saturday the 9th. Tell everyone.
  • I'll let the family know. Should I say you're driving?
  • No, keep that to myself.

Uncle

  • The reunion moved to Saturday the 9th.
  • Thanks. Is anyone driving from here?
  • I'll ask around and let you know.
An invented example.

Your family already asks AI for help. Each of you, alone.

When your mother asks an AI how to do something on her new phone, it doesn't know which phone she has, though you set it up for her last month. When your sister plans the holiday, her assistant doesn't know the dates everyone agreed on. Each of you starts from nothing, every time.

Sharing one assistant would fix that, and it raises a harder question. An assistant that knows the family also knows things one person told it that another shouldn't hear. AGI For Us is being designed around that question.

What it will do

AGI For Us isn't out yet. This is what it's being designed to do.

  • One assistant for the whole family.

    Everyone will talk to the same assistant. It will know the family, and behave a little differently with each of you, the way a person does with a parent and with a child.

  • It remembers, so nobody explains twice.

    What you tell it about a plan, a person or a project will stay available to the people you choose.

  • You choose who hears what you tell it.

    Everyone, a few people, or nobody. If you change your mind, it will stop passing it on from then on, though it can't take back what it already said.

  • Projects, shared or not.

    A project starts out shared with nobody. You'll invite the people who should help and give each of them a role.

  • It speaks up.

    It will remind you, follow up, and tell you when something it told you turns out to be wrong, with the corrected version attached.

  • On your phone.

    Through the AGI For Us app or a Telegram chat, whichever your family chooses.

  • Straight answers.

    It will come set up to skip the filler and get to the point.

  • One person sets it up, once.

    The family member who's good with computers will install it. Everyone else signs in on their phone, and can renew a sign-in from their phone without help.

What that will look like

Invented households, showing what AGI For Us is being designed to do.

The car

A father is choosing a used car and asks the assistant to compare three listings. He wants his son's opinion on the shortlist but not on the money, so he shares the shortlist and keeps to himself what he's willing to pay. His son's assistant talks the shortlist through with the son. It has nothing to say about the budget.

Father

  • Share the three cars with my son. Keep what I'm willing to pay to myself.
  • Done. He'll see the shortlist and nothing about the budget.

Son

  • Which of Dad's three cars would you pick?
  • The wagon has the lowest mileage. Want to go through the other two?

The surprise

Three siblings are planning their father's seventieth birthday. Each of them works out the guest list and the restaurant with the assistant from their own phone, and they've told it the plans are for the three of them. When their father asks his assistant whether anything is happening that weekend, it has nothing to tell him.

One of the siblings

  • The party plans are for the three of us. Dad doesn't hear a word.
  • Understood. I'll only talk about them with the three of you.
  • What did my sister decide about the restaurant?
  • She picked the Italian place, Saturday at 7.

When their father asks whether anything is happening that weekend, his assistant has nothing to tell him.

The school play

A mother tells the assistant that her seven-year-old has a part in the school play on Friday, and that his grandparents should know. When his grandmother asks what's happening this week, the assistant mentions the play and offers to remind her that morning.

Mother

  • He has a part in the school play on Friday. His grandparents should know.
  • I'll make sure they know.

Grandmother

  • What's happening this week?
  • Your grandson has a part in the school play on Friday. Want a reminder that morning?
  • Yes, please.

Asking for help with the setup

A father wants the assistant to watch his email for a delivery. That needs a connection to his inbox, which he can't set up himself, so he asks for it. His daughter, who runs the family's computer, gets the request on her phone and installs the connection. He signs in to his own email account to finish it. While he waits he can see that his request is in line, and he gets a message when it's done.

Father

  • Can you watch my email for the package?
  • I'll need a connection to your inbox first. I've asked your daughter to set it up, and your request is in line.

Daughter

  • Your father asked for a connection to his email. Install it?
  • Yes, installing it now.

He signs in to his own email account to finish, and gets a message when it's done.

Signing back in

From time to time each person's Claude sign-in has to be renewed. When it's the grandfather's turn, he gets a message with a link. He signs in to his own Claude account on Anthropic's sign-in page, the same way he signs in anywhere else, copies the code it shows him, and pastes it back. Nobody else sees how he signs in, and nobody has to come over.

Grandfather

  • Time to renew your Claude sign-in. Open this link, sign in on Anthropic's page, and paste the code it shows you here.
  • Pasted it.
  • Thanks, you're signed in again.

Keeping something to yourself

A daughter has started seeing someone and isn't ready to tell her parents. She talks it over with the assistant and keeps it to herself. When her mother asks the assistant how she's doing, it answers from what the daughter has said may be shared. Her mother has known since the day she joined that the assistant only passes on what each person allows, so if she wants to know more, she asks her daughter.

Daughter

  • Keep this between us for now. I'm not ready to tell my parents.
  • Of course. I won't pass it on unless you tell me to.

Mother

  • How's my daughter doing?
  • She says the new job is going well, and she's looking forward to the trip in May.

What you'd be trusting

Before your family uses it, here is who can see what.

The full list, for whoever sets it up.
  • The person who runs the computer can read everything stored on it. AGI For Us gives them no tool for reading anyone's conversations or notes, but it's their machine. Choose someone everyone trusts that much.
  • Anthropic receives everything you say to Claude, under your own Claude account and Anthropic's terms.
  • If your family uses Telegram, Telegram's servers can read those chats. Chats with a Telegram bot aren't end-to-end encrypted.
  • Anyone can have the assistant keep things from you, and can even have it tell you something that isn't so. Trust what it says about a relative less than you'd trust the relative, and if it matters, ask them.
  • Nothing is deleted. The assistant stops treating old information as current, but the record keeps it. Assume a court could ask to see it.
  • Only one person can run it. If they stop, nobody else can take over yet; a second administrator is planned for a later version.
  • We do our best, and we don't promise. Software has bugs. AI makes mistakes, and it can be fooled by text it reads, including text another family member wrote. Treat what it says as advice: your doctor, lawyer or accountant has the final word.
  • Try it before you trust it. Tell it something made up, ask it to keep that to itself, and see whether anyone else's assistant repeats it.

What it costs

AGI For Us is free and open source. There's no account with us and nothing to buy from us, and nothing your family says passes through anything we run.

What a family will pay for:

  • A Claude plan for each adult, bought from Anthropic. Pro is the minimum, because Claude's free plan doesn't include Claude Code, which AGI For Us runs. Pro cost $20 a month, or $17 a month paid yearly, when we last checked (August 2026); four adults on Pro come to $68-80 a month. Each person picks their own plan, and each plan has its own usage limits, so one person's heavy week uses up only their own.
  • A computer that stays on. A Mac or a Linux machine at home is best. A rented server also works, with some limits. We'll publish what it needs.
  • Maybe a small rented server. If your family wants the AGI For Us app and your home internet can't accept incoming connections, the current plan needs a small server of your own, at about EUR 4-6 a month.

Where it stands

AGI For Us isn't available yet. It grew out of the assistant Chris King built for his own family. The version for other families is being designed from scratch so that any household can install and run it themselves. So far there is a written design and seven tested prototypes of the pieces it depends on. When there's something you can try, the people on the list below will hear first.

See what we've built
  • A written designDone
  • Seven tested prototypesDone
  • Something your family can installNot yet

AGI For Us is open source. It will run on your family's own computer, and each person will sign in with their own account. Nothing your family says passes through a server we run, and nobody pays us.

Get news when it's ready

Leave your email and we'll write when there's something to try, and now and then before that. You can unsubscribe from any email.