Small AI assistant with inbuilt guardrails written in Go

Reddit r/AI_Agents 05/31/26, 05:09 PM Tools

go ai-assistant guardrails telegram gmail open-source

Summary

A small Go service for running a personal AI assistant through Telegram and Gmail, with built-in guardrails and approval workflows.

assistant is a small Go service for running a personal AI assistant through Telegram and Gmail. It is built on top of gratefulagents/sdk, which provides the agent runtime, tool execution, approvals, guardrails, and provider integrations. It includes: * Telegram bot polling * Gmail polling * Scheduled jobs/reminders * Per-conversation history * Slash commands like /clear, /plan, and /version * Local authenticated gateway Security basics: * Outbound polling for Telegram/Gmail * Bearer auth for the local gateway * Permissioned tool modes * Approvals on by default * Secret redaction in logs/errors

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