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Build a privacy-first family Home Hub with Claude Code

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Craig Monsen used Claude Code to build Home Hub, merging Skylight, email and calendars into a 5:30 AM briefing and a Telegram assistant.

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Help me build a household assistant that reads our Skylight chores and calendar, a dedicated family inbox and Google Calendar, then sends a daily morning briefing, shows a dashboard and answers questions over Telegram. It must use its own scoped credentials, process data locally, and send only redacted extracts to any cloud model.

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Goal: Pull a family's chores, calendars and email action items into one morning briefing and a chat assistant.

Questions to ask me first:
- Which sources should it read (calendar, chore app, inbox)?
- What time should the briefing arrive, and to whom?
- What must never leave the house?

Inputs (fill in or confirm):
- Sources and access method: [LIST]
- Briefing time and recipients: [DETAILS]
- Chat channel: [TELEGRAM / OTHER]
- Privacy rules: [WHAT TO REDACT]

Rules:
- Use separate, revocable credentials; never log in as me.
- Classify and redact sensitive data before any cloud call.
- Hide repeating noise in calendar views.
- Ask before the assistant sends anything outside the household.

Checkpoint: Produce one sample briefing from real sources and show what was redacted.

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Verify before you finish: Compare a week of briefings against the real calendar and inbox for missed items.

Output: A running pipeline, briefing template, dashboard and assistant commands list.

Done when: The household gets a useful briefing every morning without anyone compiling it.

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Outcome

Craig Monsen's family already used a Skylight kitchen screen, but household information also lived in split inboxes, school emails and Google Calendar, and pulling it together mostly fell on Monsen's wife. Claude Code let Monsen get back into coding and build Home Hub. It reads the Skylight chores and calendar, a dedicated inbox and Google Calendar, then sends a 5:30 AM daily briefing email with the day's events, open chores and action items found in overnight email. A web dashboard hides noisy repeating events, and a Telegram assistant answers questions, adds reminders and takes a first research pass on tasks. Home Hub uses its own scoped keys rather than Monsen's identity, processes most data in a sandbox at home, and sends only redacted extracts to a cloud AI. Monsen says parts that once would have taken weeks became feasible, though the hub fits only one household and isn't shared.

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https://craigmonsen.com/2026/06/01/home-hub-building-the-household-assistant-i-couldnt-buy/

Context: Monsen works in health IT and hadn't coded regularly in years. No usage metrics are given; the project is personal and not released.

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