🛡️ Location Safety Skill

Real-time safety monitoring for AI assistants — because your AI should watch your back.

Inspiration

This skill was inspired by Daniel Miessler's essay "AI's Predictable Path" — specifically Component #4: "Our DAs Will Become Our Active Advocates and Defenders."

"If they hear something or see something, they'll immediately display something to their owner, or speak it in their ear.

Hey—sorry to interrupt—there's a suspected shooter in your area.

Take Aiden and go out the back by the bathrooms. There's an exit there. Go out that exit and to the left right now."

This skill is a first step toward that vision — giving AI assistants the ability to actively monitor their owner's safety and take protective action.

Built by @upster and Sid Alto.

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Why This Exists

Your AI assistant knows a lot about you, but does it know if you're safe?

This skill gives your AI the ability to:

• 📍 Track your location via your phone
• 🌦️ Monitor for dangers in your area (weather, earthquakes, air quality, breaking news)
• 📱 Alert you when something dangerous is detected
• 🚨 Escalate to loved ones if you don't respond

The Problem

You're out and about. A wildfire breaks out nearby. A severe thunderstorm is approaching. There's an active emergency in your neighborhood.

How would you know?

Sure, you might get a push notification eventually. But your AI assistant — the one that's supposed to help you — has no idea where you are or what's happening around you.

The Solution

This skill creates a safety loop:

graph LR
    A[📱 Your Phone] -->|Location| B[🖥️ Webhook Server]
    B --> C[🤖 AI Assistant]
    C -->|Checks| D[🌦️ Weather APIs]
    C -->|Checks| E[🌋 Earthquake Data]
    C -->|Checks| F[💨 Air Quality]
    C -->|Checks| G[📰 Local News]
    D & E & F & G --> H{Danger?}
    H -->|Yes| I[📱 Alert You]
    H -->|No| J[✅ All Clear]
    I -->|No Response| K[📧 Alert Emergency Contact]

How It Works

1. Location Tracking

Your phone sends location updates to a webhook server running alongside your AI:

sequenceDiagram
    participant Phone as 📱 OwnTracks
    participant Server as 🖥️ Webhook
    participant AI as 🤖 Assistant
    
    Phone->>Server: POST /location (lat, lon)
    Server->>Server: Save to location.json
    Note over AI: Every 30 minutes...
    AI->>Server: Read location.json
    AI->>AI: Run safety checks

2. Multi-Source Safety Checks

Every 30 minutes, your AI checks multiple data sources for your current location:

graph TB
    subgraph "Data Sources (Free APIs)"
        NWS[🌦️ National Weather Service<br/>Severe weather, floods, storms]
        USGS[🌋 USGS Earthquakes<br/>Seismic activity within 100km]
        AQI[💨 Open-Meteo Air Quality<br/>AQI, PM2.5, smoke]
        NEWS[📰 Local RSS Feeds<br/>Breaking news, emergencies]
    end
    
    subgraph "Safety Check"
        CHECK[🔍 Analyze all sources]
    end
    
    NWS --> CHECK
    USGS --> CHECK
    AQI --> CHECK
    NEWS --> CHECK
    
    CHECK -->|All Clear| OK[✅ Log & Continue]
    CHECK -->|Alert Found| ALERT[⚠️ Trigger Alert Flow]

3. Alert & Escalation Flow

When danger is detected, the AI doesn't just log it — it takes action:

sequenceDiagram
    participant AI as 🤖 Assistant
    participant You as 👤 You
    participant Wife as 👩 Emergency Contact
    
    AI->>AI: Danger detected!
    AI->>You: 📱 WhatsApp: "Safety alert! Are you okay?"
    
    alt You respond within 15 min
        You->>AI: "I'm safe"
        AI->>AI: Clear alert ✅
    else No response after 15 min
        AI->>Wife: 📧 Email: "Sid hasn't responded to safety alert"
        Note over Wife: Can check on you
    end

4. Self-Preservation

The AI also monitors threats to itself — the machine it runs on:

graph TB
    subgraph "Self-Check"
        DISK[💾 Disk Space]
        MEM[🧠 Memory]
        NET[🌐 Tailscale Status]
        ENV[🌍 Environment<br/>Weather at home location]
    end
    
    DISK -->|>85% full| WARN[⚠️ Alert owner]
    MEM -->|<40% free| WARN
    NET -->|VPN down<br/>but internet up| WARN
    ENV -->|Danger at home| WARN

⚠️ Note: If the internet is fully down, I obviously can't alert you. But I can detect partial failures (e.g., Tailscale VPN down while internet is up) and warn you before things get worse.

Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                     YOUR PHONE                               │
│  ┌─────────────┐                                            │
│  │  OwnTracks  │  Sends location every few minutes          │
│  └──────┬──────┘                                            │
└─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
          │ HTTP POST
          ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                   WEBHOOK SERVER (:18800)                    │
│  ┌─────────────┐    ┌──────────────┐                        │
│  │  server.js  │───▶│ location.json │                       │
│  └─────────────┘    └──────────────┘                        │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
          │
          │ Reads location
          ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    AI ASSISTANT                              │
│                                                              │
│  ┌────────────────┐  ┌──────────────────┐  ┌─────────────┐ │
│  │ safety-check.js│  │ escalation-check │  │ self-check  │ │
│  │  (every 30m)   │  │    (every 10m)   │  │ (every 30m) │ │
│  └───────┬────────┘  └────────┬─────────┘  └──────┬──────┘ │
│          │                    │                    │        │
│          ▼                    ▼                    ▼        │
│  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐│
│  │                    ALERT ACTIONS                        ││
│  │  📱 WhatsApp message    📧 Email escalation             ││
│  └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘│
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Quick Start

# 1. Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/sidalto1-dev/location-safety-skill.git
cd location-safety-skill/scripts

# 2. Run the setup wizard
node setup.js

# 3. Start the webhook server
node server.js

# 4. Configure OwnTracks on your phone with the displayed URL

Files

Supported Cities

Setup includes presets for:

• 🌲 Seattle — KING5, Seattle Times
• 🌹 Portland — Oregonian, KGW
• 🌉 San Francisco — SF Chronicle, SFGate
• 🌴 Los Angeles — LA Times, ABC7
• 🗽 New York — NY Times
• 🌬️ Chicago — Chicago Tribune

Other cities are auto-geocoded; you can add custom RSS feeds.

Data Sources

All APIs are free and require no API keys:

Privacy

• Your location data stays on your machine
• No cloud services required (except the free APIs)
• You control who gets escalation alerts
• All logs are local

License

MIT — Use it, modify it, keep yourself safe.

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Built with 🛡️ by @upster & Sid Alto — a human and his AI, building the future Daniel Miessler described.