Little Toby 1.1.0

Little Toby now has an Android app, a Telegram bot, your notes as its
memory, and an overnight queue. It also has a website:
https://mr1charles.github.io/linux-ai-assistant-/

What's new

• An Android app. Download LittleToby.apk below and open it. The
  first time, paste the link that toby phone on shows, or type the
  address and code. After that it opens straight to your computer over
  Tailscale.
• Talk to Toby on Telegram. Make your own private bot with @Botfather
  and run toby telegram setup. Only accounts you confirm at the computer
  can use it. You get each task's steps as they happen, Allow / Don't allow
  buttons for anything that needs your OK, voice notes, and instant
  notifications. See docs/TELEGRAM.md.
• Your notes folder as Toby's memory. Run toby notes set ~/Obsidian
  (or any folder of Markdown notes). Toby searches it when you ask about
  something, and keeps a daily log of what it did.
  See docs/NOTES.md.
• An overnight queue. Add tasks with toby queue add "…", /queue in
  Telegram, or by editing Queue.md. Toby works through them between 01:00
  and 07:00 while the computer is awake, and leaves what it found in
  Outbox/. Anything that needs your OK is left for you.
  See docs/QUEUE.md.
• A real off switch for the Dynamic Island (toby island off).

Update your computer

toby update

Or, for a first install:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mr1charles/linux-ai-assistant-/main/install.sh | bash

Install the phone app

• Android: download LittleToby.apk below. Allow installing from your
  browser if Android asks.
• iPhone: download LittleToby-unsigned.ipa below and sideload it
  with your own Apple ID (Plume Impactor on Linux, AltStore or Sideloadly).
  See docs/COMPANION.md.

Either way, install Tailscale on the phone and sign in with the same account
as the computer, then run toby phone on.

Good to know

• The first time you run toby phone on, Tailscale may ask you to turn on
  Serve for your network. Open the link it gives you and click Enable.
• On a small local model, Toby sometimes answers a question about the
  computer without checking first. A bigger model, or cloud mode, does
  better.
• The Android app hasn't been tried on many phones yet. If something's off,
  please open an issue.

Little Toby 1.0.0

Little Toby's first release: everything since the first version, plus the
iPhone app.

What's new

• Control your computer from your iPhone, from anywhere. Ask Toby to
  check on things, run commands and builds, open apps, and move or tidy
  files. Each task shows up live on the phone with its steps, and you can
  pause or stop it. Anything that changes something waits for your OK on
  the phone or the computer. Pairing each phone takes a one-time code, a
  six-digit number that matches on both screens, and your OK on the
  computer. It all runs over your own Tailscale network, so nothing is
  open to the internet.
• A native iPhone app (SwiftUI, iOS 17 or later): Home, Chat with
  voice, Tasks, Computer (windows, live screen if you allow it, terminal
  output, files) and Settings, in light and dark. There's also a web app
  for Android or any browser.
• Work Mode: Toby reads what's on the screen and works on it the way you
  would. It can click, drag and scroll, circle, underline and highlight,
  and write by hand using real pen input. Afterwards it checks that the
  page actually changed.
• Permission levels: looking is done at once. Changing things asks
  first. Risky things (sudo, deleting whole folders, changing anything
  outside your home folder) are refused unless you turn them on.
• One-command install and a toby command (toby update, toby doctor,
  toby phone pair…).
• Fingerprint approval for Toby's questions.
• Faster answers: obvious requests are answered at once, and Toby picks
  the best local model for your computer.
• Animations all run on one motion system: the chibi that walks out,
  carries the pointer and types on a little keyboard, the lid fold on
  sleep, a smarter Dynamic Island, and Toby-style window animations.

Update your computer

If you already have the toby command:

toby update

Otherwise (a first install, or a copy from before this release):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mr1charles/linux-ai-assistant-/main/install.sh | bash

Add -s -- --phone to the end (… | bash -s -- --phone) to also install
Tailscale for the phone. Your data stays in ~/linux-agent. If that folder
holds an older, unrelated copy, it's left alone and the code goes in
~/.local/share/little-toby instead. If your Hyprland config still starts
the old Toby, the installer tells you where.

Install the iPhone app

1. Download LittleToby-1.0.0-unsigned.ipa below.
2. Sign and install it with your own Apple ID using a sideloading tool:
   Plume Impactor (works on
   Linux), AltStore with AltServer, or Sideloadly
   on Windows or macOS.
3. On the iPhone, turn on Settings → Privacy & Security → Developer
   Mode (it restarts), then trust your Apple ID under Settings →
   General → VPN & Device Management.
4. On the computer run toby phone on. In the app, tap Pair a
   computer, scan the code, check that the numbers match, and approve
   on the computer.

With a free Apple ID the app has to be re-signed every 7 days (the tools
can do it for you). A paid Apple Developer account makes that a year.
The full guide is in docs/COMPANION.md.

Good to know

• Tested automatically: the whole computer side in a headless desktop,
  and the iPhone app on GitHub's Mac machines. There, a UI test pairs with
  a real Toby, asks for a task, approves it and watches it finish, on a
  small and a large iPhone in light and dark.
• Not yet tried on a real iPhone or on real Hyprland hardware. Pen input,
  finding buttons through accessibility on Wayland, and reading text on a
  dark theme are the parts most likely to need adjusting.
• Notifications while the app is in the background can be late (iOS
  decides when the app may check). For instant ones, set up
  ntfy as described in the guide.
• Work Mode writes what you ask it to write. It won't answer homework or
  graded work for you.

first one

What's Changed

• Import Little Toby project snapshot by @mr1charles in #1
• Claude/little toby handoff g0jcxm by @mr1charles in #2

New Contributors

• @mr1charles made their first contribution in #1

Full Changelog: https://github.com/mr1charles/linux-ai-assistant-/commits/1.0