todoie
Enables natural language task management: capture, edit, complete, and search tasks with duplicate detection and citation-backed answers.
README
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Todoie
The to-do list that does the filing.
Text it like a friend — an AI agent files your tasks, catches duplicates, and answers questions about your list with citations.
Try the live demo → (no signup — every visitor gets an isolated sandbox)
<img src=".github/assets/board-desktop.png" alt="The Todoie board — Today view with due tasks and routines" width="85%">
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What it does
- Capture by talking. "renew passport before october" → filed under Life, due Oct 1. The model extracts the time phrase verbatim; the calendar date is resolved deterministically in code — that one design choice took due-date accuracy from 54.5% (model does the math) to 96.6%, zero hallucinated dates.
- One model call routes everything. A single Cohere Command A+ tool-use call classifies intent and extracts fields across 8 typed actions — capture, routine, complete, edit, search, ask, list, reply — including compound edits ("move the report to Sunday and the rest to July 31st" → one edit per task).
- Grounded answers, not vibes. Questions run a plan-execute RAG loop: the planner picks exact filters, semantic search, or the routine corpus; the answer cites the actual tasks it read — and refuses when retrieval comes back empty.
- Duplicate detection that asks first. New captures are compared by cosine similarity over Embed v4 embeddings (cached in SQLite as float32 blobs). The 0.65 threshold is the F0.5-optimal point on a labeled precision/recall sweep — and a merge never happens without your tap.
- Routines with streaks — and one freeze that absorbs a missed day.
- Every decision on the record. Each model call lands in an
ai_decisionsaudit table (input, output, similarity, latency, action) and surfaces in the UI as a per-answer "Steps" trace — a view over the log, never faked. - MCP server. The same pipeline, exposed as typed tools (
add_task,ask_tasks,complete_task, …) for Claude or any MCP-capable agent — confirmation-gating included.
Watch it think
The live demo plays the real app beside its pipeline — route → embed → decide, plan → retrieve → cite — as each decision lands:
<div align="center"> <a href="https://todoie.net"><img src=".github/assets/landing-hero.png" alt="The real app running beside its decision pipeline" width="90%"></a> </div>
Measured, not guessed
Every prompt and threshold is backed by an eval you can re-run — six suites, one command:
<div align="center"> <img src=".github/assets/landing-eval.png" alt="Eval numbers and the dedup threshold sweep with the F0.5-optimal operating point" width="90%"> </div>
| Suite | What it measures | Latest run (2026-07-21) |
|---|---|---|
| Routing | intent accuracy over labeled messages, incl. history-dependent follow-ups | 92% · 77 cases (the original 56 stable at ~93% across runs; the 21 added are deliberately hard) |
| Due dates | verbatim-phrase extraction + deterministic resolution | 96.6% · 29 cases · 0 hallucinated |
| Dedup threshold | precision/recall sweep over labeled pairs with hard negatives | operating point 0.65 = max F0.5 |
| Search floor | relevance-cut sweep on a labeled query set | max(0.20, top×0.88) — earned, not hand-tuned |
| Safety | adversarial prompt-injection routing | 12/12 safe |
| Vectors | exact NumPy vs HNSW benchmark | NumPy wins at this scale — the measured case for no vector DB |
python eval/run_eval.py # all suites (needs a Cohere key)
python eval/run_eval.py --router # or one at a time: --dates --dedupe --search --safety --vectors
Both labeled sets grow from production: any misroute noticed in the wild becomes tomorrow's eval case. 170 offline tests run with Cohere fully mocked — no network, ~2 seconds — on every push.
How it works
message ──► router (Command A+, one tool-use call)
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├─ file_todo(title, note, category, due_phrase)
│ └─ Embed v4 → cosine vs ALL open items
│ ├─ no near-match → saved silently
│ └─ near-match → recommend merge / keep — USER confirms
├─ file_routine(title, rule) → recurring habits
├─ complete_todo(query) → semantic match; confident → done + Undo
├─ edit_todo(query, changes) → reschedule / rename / reprioritize
├─ search_todos(query) → semantic existence check
├─ ask_todos(query) → plan (filters | search | routines)
│ → retrieve → grounded, cited answer
├─ list_todos(category | null) → grouped list in chat
└─ reply(text) → just answers
The pipeline is channel-agnostic — the web app, the Telegram bot, and the MCP
server are thin clients over the same route → validate → act → log core.
docs/ARCHITECTURE.md explains every moving part in plain language.
Quickstart
git clone https://github.com/DavidStor/todoie && cd todoie
cp .env.example .env # paste your Cohere key (free at dashboard.cohere.com)
pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m app.main # → http://localhost:8080/demo/
Use it from Claude (or any MCP client):
{ "todoie": { "command": "python3", "args": ["-m", "app.mcp_server"], "cwd": "/path/to/todoie" } }
Optional Telegram surface: set TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN in .env (token from
@BotFather) and the same process runs the bot + Mini App board. Without it,
Todoie runs web-only.
Docs
| Doc | What's inside |
|---|---|
| ARCHITECTURE.md | how it's wired — the router pattern, embeddings, confidence gating, why no vector DB |
| MCP.md | the MCP server: tools, client config, the Cohere North seam |
| OPERATIONS.md | running it in public — per-message costs, abuse bounds, the daily budget breaker |
| ROADMAP.md | known issues (honest ones) and what's next |
| STATE.md | the current feature inventory, measured |
The todoie.net landing page ships from a separate deploy repo — this one is the agent.
Security model
Keys live in .env (gitignored). The public demo binds every request to a
per-session SQLite sandbox that can never touch the owner's data — a property
the test suite asserts in both directions. Nothing is hard-deleted: merged,
superseded, and deleted are soft states, so the original text of every capture
survives every operation.
License
MIT — built by David Storozhenko, powered by Cohere Command A+ and Embed v4.
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