# Will agentic assistants work with Solid pods or stay siloed?

**URL:** <https://forum.solidproject.org/t/will-agentic-assistants-work-with-solid-pods-or-stay-siloed/11043>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [November 12, 2026, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/will-agentic-assistants-work-with-solid-pods-or-stay-siloed/11043 "2026-11-12T22:54:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![victoriajackson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/aeb1de/32.png) [@victoriajackson](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/victoriajackson)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/will-agentic-assistants-work-with-solid-pods-or-stay-siloed/11043/1 "2026-11-12T22:54:31Z")

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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.

Update after reading more on this: [Apple CEO Ternus pushes for faster, agentic Siri](https://viewtime.net/news/apple-ternus-pushes-faster-agentic-siri) suggests the assistant side is moving fast, but it didn’t settle anything about pod permissions. I’m still unsure whether cross-pod access could be scoped without giving an assistant full run of my contacts and calendar.

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**Author:** ![NoelDeMartin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/noeldemartin/32/3144_2.png) [@NoelDeMartin](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/NoelDeMartin)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2026, 7:04am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/will-agentic-assistants-work-with-solid-pods-or-stay-siloed/11043/2 "2026-11-13T07:04:29Z")

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A few of us have been working on this, for example I have this app called [Ànima](https://anima.noeldemartin.com/) that does exactly that (You can see an example of how it works in [a presentation I did recently](https://youtu.be/2KFlz9BMrDI?si=GMT4uT7gnsqXRh3f&t=1335)).

So, the short answer is that yes: that is totally possible with Solid.

But the long, and more realistic answer, is that this is very unlikely to happen with Apple or any of other Big Tech companies. Apple likes to talk a lot about privacy and data ownership, but when they say “you own your data” what they actually mean is that they give you access to your data… in their own servers. What they don’t like is that your data gets to other companies (Google, Microsoft, etc.), but they’re not going to really give it to you either.

Maybe that’s more an opinion than a fact… but I think the reason Solid is very unlikely to get adopted in these companies is that they don’t really want to give you your data; they just want to be the only ones who have it. So if this is ever going to work, it probably has to happen from the bottom-up.