Sovereign Context Assistant
Proactive desktop recall without cloud exposure, built on local OCR and vector search.
Overview
I needed a mechanism to recall screen context without exposing sensitive data to external APIs. I engineered a KDE-based assistant that captures screen activity and processes it through a rigorous local pipeline. The solution performs optical character recognition and applies immediate redaction based on exclusion lists before any data is indexed. The scrubbed context is then routed to a self-hosted gateway and stored in a local vector store. This architecture ensures that while I can query my activity history for intelligent retrieval, raw sensitive information never leaves the host machine, guaranteeing strict data sovereignty.
Highlights
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Local OCR and redaction pipeline with configurable exclusion lists
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Self-hosted Qdrant gateway for zero-cloud vector search
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Active deployment since 2026-09 with 85% completion confidence
System Architecture
Local processing flow ensuring data privacy before indexing.
Questions people ask
- How does the system ensure data privacy?
- It processes all data locally using OCR and redaction pipelines before indexing in a self-hosted vector store, ensuring zero cloud exposure.
- What technologies power the search capabilities?
- The solution utilizes Qdrant for vector search and Python-based OCR to enable intelligent retrieval of screen activity history.
- How is sensitive information handled during indexing?
- Configurable exclusion lists immediately redact sensitive data during the OCR process before any context is stored or queried.