Goose · configured for journalism

Old-school reporting.
New-school machinery.

— Open source · Local-first · No lock-in · No surveillance —

Set up
02 What it does

An example day.
Not a feature list.

A morning brief, a fast verification pass, then deeper source work. Mycroft is a workflow layer for the rhythm of a reporting day, not three boxed-off tricks.

§ 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

§ Verify · Spotlight

Your fact-check, in minutes.

Per-claim verdicts via SIFT — verified, unverified, contradicted, mischaracterized.

sift · per-claim · 4 verdicts

03 The runtime

Goose, Qwen,
Obsidian.

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. It also sets up Obsidian as the place where briefs, sources, claims, and findings land as local markdown.

↳ runtime

Goose.

the agent loop

Block · MIT · open-source

+
↳ model

Qwen 3.5.

journalist · abliterated

9B · 35B · GGUF

+
↳ vault

Obsidian.

your knowledge base

local · on disk · markdown

04 Privacy by default

A threat model.
Met.

Six commitments. Defaults, not options.

0 trackers detected on this page

Default

Zero data retention

Only providers with ZDR (Fireworks, Together) ship as defaults.

Fireworks · Together

Toggle

Local-first mode

One toggle. Inference on your machine via MLX or llama-server. Zero egress.

MLX · llama-server

Yours

Your keys, your machine

Setup runs in your browser. API keys embedded in the .command. No backend.

In-browser · No backend

Only

Firecrawl only

Web fetching is the most-abused surface. Mycroft uses Firecrawl exclusively.

Firecrawl · Single vendor

On disk

Vault stays on disk

Findings write to your Obsidian vault. Nothing syncs.

Obsidian · No sync

Audit

No telemetry

No analytics, no crash reporting. Open-source — read every line.

MIT · Read every line

04½ Integrations

Beat work,
wired in.

Goose hosts the runtime; Mycroft brings in the reporting tools. coJournalist monitors the beat, Spotlight investigates leads, and the next release adds public-data discovery and visual production.

MONITORING

coJournalist.

Continuous awareness of your beat. Pulls feeds, flags signal, drafts the morning brief — so you walk in with leads, not noise.

INVESTIGATION

Spotlight.

Deep-dive on a name, a company, a place. Spotlight runs structured discovery across your sources and the open web — with citations, no hallucinated quotes.

COMING · AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2026

DataHound + Atelier.

DataHound — public-data discovery (registries, archives, leaks). Atelier — visual production for the published piece. Two more pieces shipping with the next release.

05 Install · five minutes

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.

Set up no terminal wrangling · one file · one run
06 From the team

A membership.
A consultancy.

Mycroft is the open tool. I help newsrooms go further.

↳ may 2026

Membership.

Investigations with AI. The tools to run your own.

  • Remote workshops

    Live, hands-on training sessions.

    Online · practical

  • Cloud extensions

    Expanded tool access and priority features.

    Navigator · coJournalist · DataHound

  • Methods library

    Investigation methods and AI techniques, in depth.

    OSINT · verification · production

↳ on request

Consulting.

I train newsrooms to investigate with AI, then help wire the tooling into real editorial workflows.

  • Workshops & training

    Hands-on AI investigation with live stories.

    Le Temps · MAZ · Republik · 20 Minuten

  • Custom AI tooling

    Wired into your editorial workflow.

    MediaStorm

  • Investigation collaborations

    Visual production paired with field reporting.

    The New Humanitarian

Get in touch Case studies →

Manifesto

Bring the notebook.
Send the Goose.

— Open source · Self-hostable · No lock-in · No surveillance —