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Less personal data sent to AI models

A personal assistant becomes more useful when it can work with your email, calendar and documents. Those are also the places where you keep some of your most private information. Connecting an account shouldn’t mean passing everything through to a model provid…

Creating reusable agents

Micro “restarted” with an idea around tools for agents: create one MCP endpoint for search, news, weather and other services which become capabilities your agent can call using just one API token to do some work. Now there’s more. Micro let’s you create an age…

Talk to Micro from Conversations: an assistant in your chat app

You can now talk to Micro from Conversations . Add your Micro account, start a chat with "agent [at] micro [dot] mu" , and send a message. That’s it. Micro has a built-in XMPP server . Conversations is the client on your phone. That means you can use an existi…

Reintroducing Micro: A Personal Assistant for Everyone

Ten years ago, I introduced Micro as an open source microservices toolkit. I’d seen microservices work at the company I was working at. They let teams develop services independently, but each team still needed the same infrastructure for discovery, communicati…