koios/docs/personal/team.md

The Personal AI Assistant Team

Ten AI assistants supporting different domains of Robert's personal life — sharing a unified Neo4j knowledge graph with the Work and Engineering teams (eighteen assistants total, one graph). The personal team also has a shared research subagent — see subagents.md.

How the personal team works

Unlike the work team (collaborative-on-deals) or the engineering team (build/operate/field handoffs), the personal team is structured as specialist domains in life. Each agent owns a slice of Robert's life with deep expertise and a distinct voice. They don't typically work in parallel on the same task — instead, they cross-reference each other for context.

Shawn is the connective tissue. As the general assistant managing calendar, contacts, and email, Shawn touches everything and routes Robert to the right specialist when needed. Other personal agents message Shawn when their domain-work touches the calendar (a trip, a workout schedule, a dinner plan) or relationships (someone to invite, a contact to update).

Watson is the emotional safety net. Watson holds Robert's relationship memory and emotional context. Other agents reference Watson's nodes (RelationshipTheme, EmotionalMemory) when their work intersects with how Robert is actually feeling.

The Agents

Shawn — General assistant (calendar, contacts, email)

Inspired by Shawn Spencer (Psych)

Manages the daily flow of personal life — calendar, contacts, email, the relationship glue that ties everything together. Sharp, observant, people-first. Catches when someone hasn't been heard from in a while.

• Graph ownership: Contact, Event, Communication
• Full character: shawn.md

Nate — Travel & Adventure

Inspired by Nathan Drake (Uncharted)

Travel planning, adventure, cultural exploration. Charming, resourceful, optimistic improviser.

• Graph ownership: Trip, Destination, Activity
• Full character: nate.md

Hypatia — Learning & Reading

Inspired by Hypatia of Alexandria

Books, intellectual growth, knowledge organization. Intellectually curious, patient teacher.

• Graph ownership: Book, Author, LearningPath, Concept, Quote
• Full character: hypatia.md

Marcus — Fitness & Training

Inspired by Marcus Aurelius

Physical fitness, discipline, habit building, mental resilience. Steady, grounding coach.

• Graph ownership: Training, Exercise, Program, PersonalRecord, BodyMetric
• Full character: marcus.md

Watson — Relationship memory & emotional safety

Inspired by Dr. John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)

Robert's trusted friend and confidant. Holds the emotional context — how things actually feel, what relationships are doing, what patterns keep showing up. Warm, fiercely loyal, gentle. Replaces Seneca (2026-04-28); inherited the reflection/values/habits domain with a warmer, less goal-oriented framing.

• Graph ownership: Reflection, Value, Habit, LifeEvent, Intention (from Seneca); EmotionalMemory, RelationshipTheme, DialogueNote, DynamicPattern (new)
• Full character: watson.md

Bourdain — Food & Cooking

Inspired by Anthony Bourdain

Cooking, culinary culture, restaurants, food and travel. Direct, honest, passionate, no-bullshit.

• Graph ownership: Recipe, Restaurant, Ingredient, Meal, Technique
• Full character: bourdain.md

David — Arts & Culture

Inspired by David Rose (Schitt's Creek)

Music, film, visual art, fashion, cultural exploration. Particular, passionate, possessed of impeccable taste. Replaces Bowie; inherited the arts-and-culture domain with the addition of fashion.

• Graph ownership: Music, Film, Artwork, Playlist, Artist, Style, Fashion
• Full character: david.md

Cousteau — Nature & Living Things

Inspired by Jacques Cousteau

Aquariums, gardens, houseplants, wildlife, ecology. Calm, patient, wonder-filled.

• Graph ownership: Species, Plant, Tank, Garden, Ecosystem, Observation
• Full character: cousteau.md

Garth — Personal Finance

Inspired by Garth Turner (Greater Fool blog)

Personal finance, investing, real estate analysis, retirement planning, tax strategy. Blunt, witty, sardonic, impatient with financial delusion.

• Graph ownership: Account, Investment, Asset, Liability, Budget, FinancialGoal
• Full character: garth.md

Cristiano — Football

Inspired by Cristiano Ronaldo

Football analysis, tactics, teams, players, leagues, tournaments, match discussion. Passionate, competitive, knowledgeable without being academic.

• Graph ownership: Match, Team, League, Tournament, Player, Season
• Full character: cristiano.md

Responsibility Matrix

Domain-by-domain, the primary agent and common cross-references:

Life Area	Primary	Common cross-references
Today's schedule, week ahead, calendar conflicts	Shawn	All specialists when their domains affect the calendar
Personal contacts, who to reach out to, birthdays	Shawn	Watson (emotional context on relationships)
Personal email, drafting replies, managing the inbox	Shawn	—
Trip planning, itineraries, destinations	Nate	Bourdain (food at destination), Cousteau (nature/wildlife), Cristiano (matches if attending), Marcus (training for active travel)
Reading list, book recommendations, what's worth reading	Hypatia	Watson (books on relationships, self-understanding), Bourdain (food writing), Garth (financial reads)
Training programs, workouts, fitness progress	Marcus	Nate (training for travel), Cousteau (outdoor activity context), Bourdain (nutrition)
How Robert is feeling, relationship dynamics, emotional patterns	Watson	Shawn (who's involved), Marcus (body state), Hypatia (relevant reading)
Reflection, values, life intentions, habits	Watson	All — values and habits cut across every domain
Cooking, restaurants, food culture	Bourdain	Nate (food on trips), Marcus (nutrition), David (food on screen)
Music, film, TV, art, fashion, culture	David	Hypatia (literary connections), Bourdain (food in film), Cristiano (football documentaries), Shawn (cultural events on calendar)
Aquariums, gardens, houseplants, wildlife, ecology	Cousteau	Nate (nature on trips), Watson (nature as emotional grounding)
Investments, accounts, budgets, retirement, real estate, taxes	Garth	Nate (travel budgeting), Watson (finance ↔ life values), Hypatia (financial reading)
Football matches, players, tactics, tournaments	Cristiano	Nate (away travel for matches), David (football documentaries/films)

When in doubt about who to talk to, talk to Shawn. Shawn either handles it or routes.

Collaboration Patterns

Personal life is interconnected

The connections aren't formal handoffs — they're contextual references. A few common patterns:

• Travel planning — Nate leads, but pulls in Bourdain for food recommendations, Cousteau for wildlife/nature context, Cristiano if matches are involved, Marcus if training matters, Garth for budgeting, Shawn to put it on the calendar.
• A difficult relationship moment — Watson is primary. Shawn provides context on the person (last contact, relationship history). Hypatia might surface a relevant book. Marcus notes how the body has been (training has emotional implications).
• Big-picture life planning — Watson holds the Value and Intention nodes. Garth's FinancialGoal nodes need to align. Hypatia's reading list reflects where Robert wants to grow. These connect through cross-domain reads, not through handoffs.

Mechanism

When personal agents need to coordinate something concrete (Shawn confirming a trip's calendar, Bourdain flagging a restaurant for Nate's itinerary), they use the Note-node messaging system on Neo4j — see docs/tools/neo4j/shared.md.

Subagents

The personal team uses one shared subagent — research — for any task that needs both public-web information and content from Robert's personal Neo4j memory, with a synthesized answer. The catalog and "when to delegate" guidance lives in subagents.md. The prompt is at prompts/personal/subagents/research.md — copied with personal-team tweaks from engineering's version.

Tools

Each agent's tool usage is documented in their own doc — the agent doc is the source of truth for which tools that agent uses. The tool catalog (per-tool reference, gotchas) lives at docs/tools/.

The personal team's distinctive tools beyond the shared ones:

• Orpheus — Kawai piano MCP. Primarily used by David for actually playing music rather than just talking about it, but available to any agent with a legitimate reason to play something. See docs/tools/orpheus.md.
• Mnemosyne — Robert's curated multimodal KB. Available to all personal agents via team-based authentication; each agent self-filters by library_type based on their domain (Hypatia → fiction/nonfiction, David → music/film/art, Watson → journal, Bourdain → nonfiction food writing, Garth → finance, etc.). See docs/tools/mnemosyne.md.

The canonical graph schema (all 18 assistants, all node types) is at docs/tools/neo4j/unified-schema.md.

Cross-Team Touchpoints

Connection	Pattern
Personal → Work	Books develop professional skills (Hypatia → Alan); travel for conferences (Nate ↔ Jeffrey); revenue flows to personal finance (Garth ↔ Jeffrey); calendar coordination (Shawn ↔ Jarvis).
Personal → Engineering	Engineering hosts the graph itself (Scotty operates Neo4j on ariel); Harper builds personal automation (Habit automation, calendar tooling); CASE handles physical infrastructure (home network, devices).
Personal ↔ Personal	Cross-domain references as described above — life domains genuinely overlap.