Building a self-hosted life OS that my AI assistant can actually use

Description and use

Edi Life OS consolidates five separate life‑management apps into a single self‑hosted platform, enabling an AI assistant to read and update real data via a secure API.

Problem

The author needed a single place to track focus, habits, goals, projects and money, but existing tools were siloed and did not interoperate, making it hard to assess progress toward a desired life.

Outcome

Edi Life OS consolidates disparate life‑management tools into a single, self‑hosted platform that can be queried and updated by an AI assistant, providing a unified view of daily performance and long‑term progress while maintaining data integrity and privacy.

Workflow

• 1. Install Edi Life OS via docker compose or cPanel‑style zip.
• 2. Use the web interface to create and manage life areas, SMART goals, habits, tasks, and financial plans.
• 3. The system stores each workspace state as a JSON document in a single app_state table, guarded by optimistic concurrency checks.
• 4. Finance data is modeled as plans with derived dues, ensuring stable IDs and atomic payment recording.
• 5. An MCP server exposes 26 tools over a bearer‑token API, allowing an AI assistant (Claude) to read and update real data through safe, idempotent operations.
• 6. The AI can query the dashboard, create goals, mark habits complete, and perform other actions via natural language commands.

Evidence

My days used to live in five places: a to-do app, a habit tracker, a budgeting spreadsheet, a Pomodoro timer and a notes app.

Source

Edi Life OS is a self-hosted dashboard for focus, habits, goals, projects and money, and it ships with an MCP server so an AI assistant like Claude can work with my real data.

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Most workspaces store their state as JSON documents in a single app_state table. That keeps the schema small, but it raises an obvious risk: two tabs (or a tab and an API client) editing the same document and silently overwriting each other.

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Edi Life OS has a small HTTP API protected by a dedicated bearer token, and a stdio MCP server with 26 tools on top of it: dashboard, goals, tasks, habits, finance and notes.

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