Just A Digital Agent, Natively.
You've seen what AI assistants could be. JADEN is what they should be.
A voice-first, open-source Jarvis built on top of OpenClaw. Runs on your desktop. Talks back. Remembers you. Moves panels with your hands.
JADEN is not a chat window. It's a personal intelligence workspace — a dark, brutalist desktop environment where your AI lives, thinks out loud, and lets you see exactly what it's doing.
- Living Brutalism UI — neobrutalism × Iron Man HUD × nature. Dark forest palette, thick black borders, amber accents, panels you can stack, throw, and layer.
- Process stream — watch JADEN's tool calls, web fetches, and reasoning steps in real time. No black boxes.
- Mindmap panel — a Cytoscape graph that builds itself as JADEN thinks.
- Memory panel — a D3 force graph showing what JADEN knows about you, growing like a root system.
- Web panel — fetch and render anything inside JADEN without leaving.
- Gesture control — pinch to grab panels. Throw them across the screen. Two fingers up to spawn a new one. Fist to mute. Camera + MediaPipe, runs fully local.
Your voice ("hey jaden")
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Wake word → STT (local or cloud)
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OpenClaw Gateway ←→ Skills, Tools, LLM
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TTS (local or cloud) → JADEN speaks back
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Process stream, Mindmap, Memory update in real time
JADEN is a client layer on top of OpenClaw. It connects to the OpenClaw Gateway WebSocket and adds voice, a UI, a personality, and gesture control. OpenClaw does the heavy lifting — tool execution, skill management, model routing.
| Layer | Tech |
|---|---|
| Desktop app | Tauri (Rust + React) |
| UI framework | React + Framer Motion |
| Panel system | react-grid-layout |
| Wake word + STT | Web Speech API → Deepgram (cloud) |
| TTS | SpeechSynthesis → ElevenLabs (cloud) |
| Gesture | MediaPipe Hands (WASM, fully local) |
| Mindmap | Cytoscape.js |
| Memory graph | D3 force layout |
| State | Zustand |
| Monorepo | Turborepo + pnpm |
| AI backend | OpenClaw |
- OpenClaw installed and running locally
- Node.js 22+
- pnpm 10+
- Rust (for Tauri native app)
git clone https://github.com/trojan0x/jaden
cd jaden
pnpm installpnpm desktop
# Open http://localhost:1420cargo install tauri-cli --version "^2"
cd apps/desktop
cargo tauri devCopy .env.example to .env.local in apps/desktop:
# OpenClaw Gateway (default — change if you've moved it)
VITE_OPENCLAW_GATEWAY=ws://127.0.0.1:18789
# STT — leave blank to use local WebSpeech API
VITE_DEEPGRAM_API_KEY=
# TTS — leave blank to use local SpeechSynthesis
VITE_ELEVENLABS_API_KEY=
VITE_ELEVENLABS_VOICE_ID=
# Remote access (Tailscale recommended)
VITE_REMOTE_GATEWAY=jaden/
├── apps/
│ ├── desktop/ # Tauri + React desktop app
│ └── web/ # PWA for mobile remote control (coming)
└── packages/
├── openclaw-client/ # WebSocket bridge to OpenClaw Gateway
├── voice/ # Wake word, STT, TTS pipeline
├── gesture/ # MediaPipe hand tracking + gesture engine
├── personality/ # OpenClaw skill — JADEN's character + memory
└── ui/ # Shared theme tokens (Living Brutalism)
| Gesture | Action |
|---|---|
| Pinch + drag | Move a panel |
| Two fingers up ✌️ | Spawn new panel |
| Fist ✊ | Mute JADEN |
| Open palm → swipe | Switch context |
Enable gesture mode with the ✋ GESTURE button (bottom right).
JADEN's character is defined in packages/personality/SKILL.md.
Short version: witty, direct, never says "certainly", thinks in nature analogies, remembers everything you tell it, speaks up when it notices something without being asked.
Boot response: Online. What do you need?
- PWA mobile app — remote control from your phone
- OpenWakeWord WASM — offline always-on wake word
- whisper.cpp WASM — fully local STT
- Kokoro.js WASM — fully local high-quality TTS
- Skill marketplace integration — pull from ClawHub
- Proactive nudges — calendar, weather, patterns
- Multi-display support — spread panels across monitors
- Plugin API — extend JADEN's panels
Built with TypeScript (ESM, strict). Run pnpm build before opening a PR. See AGENTS.md if you're using an AI coding agent.
MIT — do whatever you want with it.
JADEN is an independent project and is not affiliated with OpenClaw or Anthropic.