What is Personal Assistant Example

personal-assistant-example is an example personal assistant built with Mastra and MCP that assists users with daily tasks and information management.

Use cases

Use cases include managing emails efficiently, summarizing GitHub project updates, scheduling tweets, retrieving weather updates, and generating daily briefings from tech news.

How to use

Users can interact with the personal assistant through a user interface or a Telegram bot, allowing them to manage emails, track GitHub activity, schedule social media posts, and more.

Key features

Key features include email management, GitHub activity monitoring, social media scheduling, weather information retrieval, Hacker News access, todo list management, and automated daily workflows.

Where to use

personal-assistant-example can be used in various fields including personal productivity, software development, social media management, and information retrieval.

Personal Assistant Agent

An example personal assistant built with Mastra and MCP (Model Context Protocol) that helps with various daily tasks and information management.

Features

This personal assistant can help with:

• Email Management: Read, categorize, and send emails through Gmail
• GitHub Activity: Monitor and summarize GitHub activity, including PRs and commits
• Social Media Scheduling: Create and manage tweet drafts with Typefully
• Weather Information: Get current weather conditions for any location
• Hacker News: Search for and retrieve stories and comments from Hacker News
• Todo Lists: Keep track of tasks and important items using the filesystem
• Daily Workflow: Run automated workflows to get summaries of news and GitHub activity

How It Works

The personal assistant is built using Mastra’s agent framework and leverages MCP servers to connect to various services.

Agent Architecture

The core of the application is the personalAssistantAgent which:

• Uses GPT-4o as its underlying model
• Has access to various tools through MCP connections
• Maintains memory of conversations and user preferences
• Can execute workflows for complex, multi-step tasks

MCP Servers

The assistant connects to several MCP servers:

• Zapier: For automation and connecting to various services
• GitHub: For monitoring repository activity
• Hacker News: For retrieving tech news
• Text Editor: For managing notes and todo lists

Tools

The assistant includes custom tools like:

• Weather Tool: Fetches current weather conditions using open-meteo API
• Daily Workflow Tool: Runs a sequence of steps to gather and summarize information

Workflows

The application includes a daily workflow that:

1. Fetches relevant Hacker News stories based on user interests
2. Summarizes recent PRs from the Mastra repository
3. Combines this information into a daily briefing

Telegram Bot

The application connects with a Telegram bot to handle user interactions and provide responses.

• The code for this bot is in src/mastra/integrations/telegram.ts and it’s used in src/mastra/index.ts.
• You can get your Telegram bot token from BotFather.

Getting Started

1. Clone this repository
2. Create a .env.development file with the required API keys:

   OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key
   ZAPIER_MCP_URL=your_zapier_mcp_url
   COMPOSIO_MCP_GITHUB=your_github_mcp_url
   TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=your_telegram_bot_token
   

3. Install dependencies:

   pnpm install
   

4. Run the dev playground:

   pnpm run dev
   

Customization

You can customize the assistant by:

• Modifying the agent instructions in src/mastra/agents/index.ts
• Adding new tools in src/mastra/tools/index.ts
• Creating new workflows in src/mastra/workflows/index.ts
• Adjusting memory settings for better personalization

Dependencies

• @ai-sdk/openai: For connecting to OpenAI models
• @mastra/core: Core Mastra functionality
• @mastra/memory: For conversation and working memory
• @mastra/mcp: For Model Context Protocol integration
• zod: For schema validation

Notes

This assistant uses a notes directory to store information for later use. The notes can be used to keep track of todo list items and other important information that should persist between sessions.