Thursday — an open-source voice assistant whose bots keep working after you hang up

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npx thursday-agent — Node.js 22.18+ and one OpenAI API key, pasted into the first screen.
MIT, runs on your own machine, no account.

90-second demo, with sound: https://youtu.be/V7fBDY3cYRU

A speech model that opens a browser goes quiet for a minute, and a quiet call is a dead call.
So Thursday splits the call in two: GPT-Live 1 holds the conversation, and anything slower
than a glance goes to a background bot with a shell, a real browser, Agent Skills and MCP
servers. She keeps talking while they work.

Five things that fall out of that split:

1. Hang up and the work continues. Jobs run on your machine, not inside the call, and she
   tells you when one finishes.
2. Results come back into the call. Ask "where is that job?" mid-sentence and she answers
   with the step the bot is on.
3. A bot can ask you a question. It arrives in the call — or as buttons in Telegram,
   Discord or Slack, while the app stays on the computer at home. Nothing there is opened to
   the internet; the app connects out.
4. Routines. "Every weekday at nine, go through my mail" — a bot, a job and a time, set up
   by saying it.
5. Memory you can read. What she knows about you is plain notes you can open, edit or
   delete.

Two things it is not. There are no local models: call audio goes to OpenAI on your key, and
bots go to whichever provider you give them. And it is not a sandbox — bots run commands as
you. Asking before a sign-in and stopping at the Pay button are instructions a model is given,
not locks in the code; SECURITY.md says so plainly.

Cost: the voice is about $0.05 a minute while a call is open, billed per second, silence
included, on your own OpenAI key. A call with nothing said for 20 seconds hangs up by itself.
Typing to her instead (press /) costs no per-minute voice time at all.

Built and tested on macOS. Linux should work and no stranger has confirmed it yet. Windows is
untested and almost certainly broken (#17).

If you run it, the useful thing to tell me is where it stopped.