Ali Hassan Assi

Independent researcher working on local-first autonomous AI safety. San Diego.

I built JARVIS to explore the question: can an autonomous AI agent be restrained by architecture rather than policy? Everything below — the snapshot, the four papers, the quarterly companion — is what that question has produced so far.

A local-first autonomous AI — a companion and a reasoning mind, with a cybersecurity operations console at its core. One machine, no cloud, no telemetry. 1,374 Python files, ~460,000 lines, 30 subsystems, 269 registered tools, 99,000+ rows in the hash-chained audit log. Built solo.

Snapshot as of 2026-05-22.