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Replicating Friday: A Guide to Building an Agentic Home Assistant AI Voice Assistant

condensed and arranged from NathanCu's thread on the HomeAssistant forums: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/fridays-party-creating-a-private-agentic-ai-using-voice-assistant-tools/855862 i used fabric to grab it and carve it up for me to run it through Gemini for the resulting documentation below for review, as it wasn't obviously documented anywhere and this information is too good to get lost in a forum post. --@emory

Introduction: Embracing the Agentic AI Philosophy

Nathan Curtis's "Friday" project is a deep dive into creating a truly "agentic" AI within Home Assistant, moving beyond simple command-and-control to enable proactive, reasoning, and conversational interactions. This guide distills Nathan's insights, code, and architectural decisions, aiming to provide a playbook for those looking to build a similar sophisticated AI assistant.

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