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Show HN: Myna – a local AI Chief of Staff that remembers your work

Myna is a local AI assistant designed to function as a Chief of Staff, running entirely on-device and capable of remembering a user's work context and history.

Background

- Myna is an open-source AI assistant (GitHub project) designed to run entirely on your own computer ("local AI") rather than relying on cloud services like ChatGPT. It's called a "Chief of Staff" because it aims to keep track of your ongoing work, files, and context across sessions — remembering what you were doing rather than treating each chat as a blank slate. - This addresses a common frustration with current AI tools: they have no persistent memory of your projects, so you constantly have to re-explain your context. Myna stores information locally (on your machine) to build a running understanding of your work. - The "Show HN" tag means the creator is presenting it to the Hacker News community (a tech/startup news site run by Y Combinator), often seeking early feedback. Local-first AI tools are a growing reaction to privacy concerns and API costs of cloud-based models. - Key relevance: part of a trend toward "AI that works for you, not for a company's servers" — similar projects include Ollama, LocalAI, and private GPT-like tools.

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