To scratch a similar itch today, I self-host (well, on Heroku) an instance of Huginn (https://github.com/huginn/huginn https://github.com/huginn/huginn). It's a

To scratch a similar itch today, I self-host (well, on Heroku) an instance of Huginn (https://github.com/huginn/huginn https://github.com/huginn/huginn). It's a bit of a different model, but works nicely. It's also pretty straightforward to extend by adding your own agents (especially if you know ruby/rails, which it is written in).