§ Brief · coJournalist
Your morning brief, before coffee.
A digest in your vault: 8 items ranked by editorial value — bookmarks, AgentMail, overnight web. Every claim cited.
8 items · cited · written to vault
AI for journalists · Open-source
Your morning brief, before coffee.
Your fact-check, in minutes.
Your sources, kept private.
An opinionated extension pack for Goose, the open-source agent runtime. Three jobs done right — on your laptop, with your keys.
Three jobs.
Done right.
Not a chatbot bolted on. Three editorial recipes wired into your vault, your beat, your writing flow.
§ Verify · Spotlight
Your fact-check, in minutes.
Per-claim verdicts via SIFT — verified, unverified, contradicted, mischaracterized.
sift · per-claim · 4 verdicts
§ Investigate · Spotlight + Qwen
Your sources, kept private.
Multi-phase OSINT, adversarial fact-checking, evidence grounding. Local-first. Yours.
osint · local-first · grounded
Coming May 2026 · DataHound (public-data discovery) · Atelier (visual production)
Three pieces.
One workstation.
Mycroft isn't an app. It's an extension pack for Goose, shipped with a Qwen 3.5 fine-tuned on investigative methodology — abliterated, open-weight, yours to audit.
↳ runtime
Goose.
the agent loop
Block · MIT · open-source
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↳ model
Qwen 3.5.
journalist · abliterated
9B · 35B · GGUF
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↳ vault
Obsidian.
your knowledge base
local · on disk · markdown
A threat model.
Met.
Six commitments. Defaults, not options.
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Zero data retention
Only providers with ZDR (Fireworks, Together) ship as defaults.
Fireworks · Together
Local-first mode
One toggle. Inference on your machine via MLX or llama-server. Zero egress.
MLX · llama-server
Your keys, your machine
Setup runs in your browser. API keys embedded in the .command. No backend.
In-browser · No backend
Firecrawl only
Web fetching is the most-abused surface. Mycroft uses Firecrawl exclusively.
Firecrawl · Single vendor
Vault stays on disk
Findings write to your Obsidian vault. Nothing syncs.
Obsidian · No sync
No telemetry
No analytics, no crash reporting. Open-source — read every line.
MIT · Read every line
Form, script, run.
You're working.
No terminal-wrangling. The setup page generates a single script with your config baked in. One file, one run.
i. Fill in the setup form — cloud or local · API keys · plugins. Everything stays in your browser.
$ open https://mycroft.app/setup
your config never leaves the browser
ii. Download .command — a bash script with your selections embedded. Review it.
$ curl -O mycroft-setup.command
204 KB · plain text · nothing hidden
iii. Run it — double-click. Brew installs Goose + Obsidian, clones the pack, configures your shell.
$ chmod +x ./mycroft-setup.command && ./mycroft-setup.command
brew installs goose + obsidian · clones the pack · configures shell
✓ goose runtime · installed
✓ qwen 3.5 weights · loaded (4.2 GB)
✓ obsidian vault · ~/Documents/Mycroft
✓ plugins enabled · Spotlight · coJournalist
✓ local-first mode · ON
✓ zero data retention · confirmed
✓ Mycroft is ready — open a new terminal to begin.
A membership.
A consultancy.
Mycroft is the open tool. The team behind it works alongside newsrooms going further.
↳ may 2026
Membership.
investigations with AI
$25/mo · 400+ already reading
The tools to run your own.
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Collaborative investigations
Shared leads, data, methodology.
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Live bootcamps
Workshops & editorial events.
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Hosted Pro tier
All agent extensions on cloud.
↳ on request
Consulting.
newsrooms, trained
workshops · tooling · field collabs
Buried Signals trains newsrooms to investigate with AI.
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Workshops & training
Hands-on AI investigation with live stories.
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Custom AI tooling
Wired into your editorial workflow.
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Investigation collaborations
Visual production paired with field reporting.
Manifesto
Built by journalists,
for journalists.
— Open source · Self-hostable · No lock-in · No surveillance —