Stop watching JARVIS
in movies. Run it.

Fourteen working files, ready to run: a voice loop that talks back (mic to Gemini to spoken reply, with two personas — a dry British butler and a research voice), a local HUD dashboard in your browser, a spoken morning briefing, a watchdog that restarts it if it ever dies, and a README that walks you through the whole thing. Single machine, your own keys. Everything you need to say "JARVIS, status" and hear it answer back.

The complete method behind JARVIS — the toddler model of autonomy, the survivable-vs-not framework, the five-phase developmental arc, and the build discipline that keeps an 11,000-line living system from collapsing. Written by an electrician who runs real money and a real business on autonomous agents. No hype, no API-key tutorial. Eight laws you can pin to the wall. Instant PDF download.

A Mac — it uses macOS's built-in voice and process tools, so it does not run on Windows or Linux. A microphone. A Google Gemini API key from Google AI Studio — get one free at aistudio.google.com/apikey. (This must be an AI Studio key, not a Google Cloud / Vertex key — a Vertex key returns a 403 and won't work.) Usage is typically pennies, billed by Google to you, not by us. Plus a free OpenWeather key for the briefing. And comfort in the Terminal: you'll edit a config file, run a couple of commands (including one brew install for the mic library), and grant a mic permission.

Not a polished consumer app — it's code you run and own. Not a clone of my full system: the trading, genealogy, security, GPS, multi-machine, and self-modifying pieces of my JARVIS are not in here — this is the foundation, not the whole house. Single-machine: no Tailscale, no fleet, no second computer. Calendar and email are an optional advanced add-on you wire to your own Google account, and the kit skips it cleanly if you don't.