I’m trying to plan a small personal data project and keep running into the same question. I keep my contacts, calendar and a few notes in a Solid pod, mostly for my own use. When I read about Apple pushing a faster, more agentic Siri, I started wondering whether assistants like that could ever act on data in a pod I control, or whether they’ll stay inside one vendor’s ecosystem.
My uncertainty is practical: if an assistant needs read and write access across different pods, how would permissions and identity work without handing over everything? I don’t have the technical background to judge whether the current Solid specs make this realistic or whether it’s still far off.
Has anyone here experimented with connecting an AI assistant to a pod, or thought through what access control would need to look like? I’d like to hear what people with hands-on experience think is feasible.