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life runs a self-hosted personal assistant on Claude Code

What to do

Plan for an always-on Mac, Tailscale and an Apple Developer membership before you copy it.

Why

It connects to an iPhone over a private VPN and needs a Claude subscription.

What the research found

life is a self-hosted personal AI assistant built on Claude Code that runs on an always-on Mac and connects to iPhone via private Tailscale VPN; requires Apple Developer membership and a Claude subscription.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

life runs on an always-on Mac and is built on Claude Code 99%
Setup requires an Apple Developer membership at 99 dollars a year 81%
Connection to the iPhone uses a private Tailscale VPN with nothing on the public internet 98%

Evidence

github.com https://github.com/mattabate/life-distributable

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