Proxenos
An agent that keeps your own records in one private place on your computer and drafts the next step for you to approve. Free and open source.
In the Greek city-states, a proxenos was the citizen who formally acted on someone else's behalf.
Why I built it
This fall, a health problem put me on the patient side of the system: wait lists, a referral lost in paperwork, and a lot of phone calls, voicemails and fax machines. What helped most was AI that could draft the emails, fill out the forms, keep a medical logbook, track the referrals and bills, and explain my insurance. Proxenos is that help, built so that anyone can have it, not only people who can build their own.
Who it's for
- People getting through the healthcare system, first of all those whose health makes it hardest: who can't think clearly for long, can't look at a screen, or can't make a phone call.
- Anyone with a backlog. With a memory of everything you've written, it carries unfinished projects forward in your voice and your words, so you can spend yourself on the people, the sport and the work that matter to you right now.
What it does
- Care: where your care stands, from your own mail, calendar, chats and notes: a timeline, what's still open, what to say on the phone, and a one-page brief for your next appointment.
- Errands: give it something to get done and it goes as far as it can, then stops one tap short of sending, with every step it took written down.
- Drafts: replies, emails and plans in your voice, ready for you to approve.
- Tasks and memory: what you've promised people, and a search across everything you've ever written.
The person in these pictures, Joe Bloggs, is made up, and so is everything he has.
Your privacy
- Everything it gathers stays in a private folder on your own computer, never on a server of mine.
- With a model that runs on your computer, nothing leaves it. With Claude, only what each step needs is sent, under your own key.
- By default it never sends, posts or buys anything. You approve what goes out.
Get Proxenos
Mac app Coming soon
One download you open and sign in to, with no setup and no code. This is what I'm building next.
Tell me when it's readyFrom the code
It runs today on a Mac (Apple Silicon) for anyone comfortable with a terminal. Try it first on a made-up person, with no data of your own.
Proxenos on GitHubHelp wanted
If you have medical training (a doctor, nurse, pharmacist, medical student or patient advocate), you know what's worth tracking and what to ask. That knowledge is what would make Proxenos preventive, not just a way through the system. Code, ideas and a quick call are all welcome: write to me.