01[ passive ]
Listen only
Transcribes the whole call into a searchable, persisted log. Never reasons about speaking. The pure note-taker.
→ transcript + pgvector
// open-source meeting agent · local-first
Your AI in every meeting.
Johnny shows up so you don't.
Johnny joins your Google Meet calls on your behalf — listening, transcribing, and speaking only within the limits you set. Give it a personality, a voice, and a calendar. It runs entirely on your machine.
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Let's lock the run on the Arasaka subnet before we wrap.
// behavior · server-enforced
Five ways to let it
in the room.
Pick one per meeting — from silent note-taker to fully autonomous. A non-speaking mode makes speaking physically impossible: the constraint lives in the backend, not a checkbox the UI can lie about.
02[ silent ]
Suggest only
Routes every moment through the model and surfaces drafted replies in the UI — but the mouth stays closed. You decide what to say.
→ live suggestions
03[ gated ]
Approval required
Pushes a reply to your browser with Approve / Reject. No answer in 15 seconds, it stays quiet. Auto-rejected and logged.
→ web push · audited
04[ allow-list ]
Limited auto-speak
Speaks on its own — but only verbatim from your pre-approved phrase list. Rate-limited. No paraphrasing, no surprises.
→ allow-list only
05[ unleashed ]
Autonomous
Off the leash. It speaks for itself, freely — guided only by its personality and your standing instructions. Full presence in the room.
→ free generation
// nothing leaves the box
Local-first.
Free by default.
Run speech-to-text, the LLM, and text-to-speech entirely on your own hardware — faster-whisper, Ollama, Piper. No API keys, no per-minute billing, no audio handed to a third party. Reach for the cloud only when you choose to.
- Audio never phones home. The full pipeline can run offline on a single machine.
- Swap any layer without code. STT, LLM and TTS are adapters — change them from the UI.
- Cloud when it's worth it. Drop in Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini, Deepgram or ElevenLabs per provider.
handleJohnny // your_call_sign
personalitydry, fast, allergic to filler. interjects only when it adds signal.
instructionsdefend the deadline. surface capacity overflows. never agree to scope creep.
allow-list"noted." · "let's take it offline." · "that's a follow-up."
router conf≥ 0.85 to speak
Voice clone armed. ElevenLabs voice ID bound — it speaks in your own voice.
// build your own ghost
Give it a name.
A voice. A creed.
The name is a placeholder — make your own character. Write its personality, its standing instructions, the exact phrases it's allowed to say. Save them as reusable templates and apply them to any meeting in one click.
- Templates, not prompts. "Listen-only standup", "approval-required client call" — reusable behavior presets.
- Clone yourself with ElevenLabs. Bind a custom voice and it speaks as a digital copy of you.
- Per-meeting overrides. Layer extra context, instructions and replies on top of any template.
// driven by your calendar
Mark the meeting.
It joins itself.
Johnny reads your Google Calendar and parses the Meet link straight from each event. Flag the calls it should attend, attach context, and it spins up an isolated browser session and walks in — as a dedicated bot account or as you.
- Per-meeting context. Attach instructions and a profile template to each event you assign.
- Auto join & leave. A scheduler joins within seconds of start and tears the session down at the end.
- Isolated per session. Each call runs in its own throwaway container — one bad meeting can't touch another.
Tue · Jun 09
09:30–10:00
assigned
13:00–13:30
assign
Wed · Jun 10
11:00–12:00
assigned
15:00–15:15
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// built to stay up
One stack. Up 24/7.
The whole thing — API, worker, scheduler, Postgres + pgvector, Redis — comes up with one command. Run it on a homelab box or drop it into a Kubernetes cluster and leave it running.
# clone & bring up the full stack
$ git clone https://github.com/mekedron/Johnny && cd Johnny
$ cp .env.example .env
$ docker compose up -d
⤷ api · worker · postgres+pgvector · redis · web
✓ stack healthy — ui at localhost:5173
$ uv run johnny-smoke
PASS compose · migrations · oauth · models · ws
Docker Compose
Five services, healthchecks and named volumes.
docker compose up and you're live — no manual wiring.Kubernetes-readysoon
Built to run as a long-lived daemon. Park it in a cluster and let the scheduler spawn per-meeting workers on demand.
MCP & agent controlsoon
Hand tasks and per-meeting instructions to Johnny over an MCP server — wire it to OpenClaw, Hermes or any agent you run.
// clone · configure · forget about it
Send Johnny in.
Open source. Free to self-host. Yours to shape into any character you want.
// no corpo backing · one operator
Keep the operator caffeinated.
No VC. No corpo. No telemetry tax — just one person building and running this whole rig on synth-coffee and pure spite. If Johnny ever covered a meeting for you, slip a few eddies in the tin and keep the lights — and the late-night commits — on.