One side: screen time, curfews, no cartoons before 10 AM, and an agent with opinions about your energy usage. The other: dealflow, reporting, and a standing excuse to run every bleeding-edge model against real work before you bet on it. Same agents, same config, same rules — your haus does not much care which one you asked it about.
One YAML to rule them all
Every service, port, path, and integration declared in a single instance.yaml. No scattered .env files, no hardcoded usernames in scripts, no magic constants buried in a file you last edited at 3 AM and have been quietly afraid of ever since.
AI agents with hella personality
Tommy patrols your haus like a digital guardian spirit. Specialized agents handle security, efficiency, health, and finance — each with their own model, skills, and seriously strong opinions.
Self-healing at 2 AM
Watchdog checks every service in the catalog every 10 minutes. Auto-remediation handles most issues before you even trip on them. The rest get sorted after human intervention and a cold one from the fridge.
Big brains. No meter.
Local LLMs via MLX on Apple Silicon handle anything that should never leave the building — your conversations with your haus stay in your haus, for real for real. And when a job genuinely wants a frontier model, the council reaches for one through the subscriptions you already pay for. Flat rate. No per-token meter running while you think, and nobody billing you in training data.
It’s 02:47. The hallway lights just strobed like Super Mario Lemieux lit the lamp, and nobody touched a switch. Your smart haus is lowkey a Frankenstein’s monster — a dozen services stitched together that have literally never met. Home Assistant runs the lights. A NAS hoards the photos. And your AI assistant? Straight up couriering every conversation you’ve ever had to some data center in Virginia. (Yes. That one. Hi.)
It breaks at 2 AM — it always breaks at 2 AM, haus automation has zero chill about timing — and there you are, debugging five systems in your boxers, doing the math on when exactly your hobby became a full-time job.
Sanctum ends this.
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Hub
Mac Mini M4
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VM
Ubuntu / Lima
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Satellite
Tailscale mesh
One file to rule them all. One file to find them. One file to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
(We are not sorry.)
The name means sacred inner chamber. A dark square holds an amber diamond at its center: the thing you care about most, inside the thing strong enough to protect it.
In a year when every major platform is racing to ingest personal data for model training, the idea of a private inner chamber has gone from metaphor to straight up survival strategy.
Two shapes. Two colors. No gradients, no glowing orbs. In an era of AI-generated visual noise, restraint is the position statement.