Rouse Context

Your phone has context that AI doesn't — your health data, your notifications, your app usage. Rouse Context makes that context available to AI assistants on demand, without ever syncing your data to the cloud.

It's an Android app that turns your phone into an MCP server. AI clients like Claude connect to a URL, your phone wakes up, and a direct encrypted session is established. The AI asks for what it needs, your phone responds, and then it goes back to sleep. Your data never leaves your device except through that live session.

Status: v1.0 released. Available on GitHub Releases. For Google Play beta access, email beta@rousecontext.com. Works with any MCP-compatible client.

     

Getting Started

1. Install — download the APK from GitHub Releases and sideload it (you may need to enable "Install from unknown sources" in your Android settings). Or email beta@rousecontext.com for Google Play beta access. Two builds ship per release — a Firebase-free FOSS APK (-foss.apk) and a Google APK (-google.apk); see docs/distribution.md for which to pick and the F-Droid story.
2. Onboard — open the app, tap Get Started, grant notification permissions. The app registers with the relay and provisions your device's TLS certificates (~10 seconds).
3. Enable an integration — tap Add Integration on the home screen. Pick one (e.g. Health Connect), grant the requested permissions, and you'll get a URL like https://brave-health.abc123.rousecontext.com/mcp.
4. Connect your AI client — paste that URL into Claude (Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector) or any MCP client. The first connection triggers an OAuth approval on your phone — tap Approve.
5. Use it — ask the AI about your health data, send yourself a notification, check your screen time. Every tool call is logged in the app's Audit tab.

How It Works

AI Client ──TLS──> Relay (SNI passthrough) ──mux WebSocket (mTLS)──> Your Phone

1. You enable an integration (e.g. Health Connect) and get a URL like https://brave-health.abc123.rousecontext.com/mcp (the integration is identified by the hostname prefix; the path is always /mcp)
2. Add that URL to Claude or any MCP client
3. When the client connects, the relay wakes your phone via FCM push
4. Your phone connects back through a mTLS WebSocket, and the relay splices the two TLS streams together
5. The AI client talks directly to your phone over end-to-end encrypted TLS — the relay never sees the plaintext

Sessions are ephemeral. The phone goes back to sleep when the client disconnects.

Integrations

Each integration is independently enabled and gets its own MCP endpoint with OAuth authorization (PKCE). 22 tools across 4 integrations:

Health Connect (3 tools)

Query Android Health Connect data across 36 record types in 7 categories (activity, body, sleep, vitals, nutrition, reproductive, mindfulness).

Tool	Description
list_record_types	List Health Connect record types with permission status
query_health_data	Query records by type and time range
get_health_summary	Health summary across permitted types for a period

Notifications (5 tools)

Read, search, and interact with device notifications.

Tool	Description
list_active_notifications	List posted notifications
search_notification_history	Search notification history by text, package, or time range
get_notification_stats	Notification counts, top apps, and busiest hour for a period
perform_notification_action	Invoke an action button on an active notification
dismiss_notification	Dismiss an active notification by key

Outreach (10 tools)

Let AI take actions on the device — launch apps, open links, send notifications, manage DND.

Tool	Description
launch_app	Launch an installed app by package name
open_link	Open an http/https URL in the default app
copy_to_clipboard	Copy text to the clipboard
send_notification	Post a notification with optional action buttons and tap-to-open URL
list_installed_apps	List installed apps
create_notification_channel	Create a notification channel
list_notification_channels	List AI-created notification channels
delete_notification_channel	Delete an AI-created notification channel
get_dnd_state	Get Do Not Disturb state
set_dnd_state	Set Do Not Disturb state

Usage Stats (4 tools)

App usage patterns and screen time analytics.

Tool	Description
get_usage_summary	Screen time totals and top apps for a period
get_app_usage	Per-day usage for one app
get_usage_events	Raw app foreground/background events over a range
compare_usage	Compare screen time between two periods; biggest deltas first

Architecture

Android App

Module	Purpose
:app	Compose UI, Koin DI, navigation, theming
:core:tunnel	Mux protocol, WebSocket client, TLS accept, CertificateStore
:core:mcp	MCP session routing, HTTP server, OAuth (device code + auth code + PKCE), token management
:core:bridge	Bridges tunnel mux streams to MCP sessions via TLS
:api	McpIntegration interface, IntegrationStateStore
:integrations	MCP providers: Health Connect, outreach (calls/SMS/DND), usage stats, notification capture
:notifications	Cross-cutting notification infrastructure, audit persistence (Room)
:work	Foreground service, FCM receiver, WorkManager
:core:testfixtures	Shared fixtures for integration-tier tests that boot the real relay binary

Relay Server (relay/)

Rust binary on a small VPS. Handles:

• TLS passthrough — routes AI client connections to devices via SNI, never terminates inner TLS
• Mux WebSocket — multiplexes multiple client sessions over one device connection
• FCM wakeup — sends push notifications to wake sleeping devices
• ACME certs — issues per-device TLS certs via Google Trust Services DNS-01 (Cloudflare API); Let's Encrypt also supported
• Bot protection — secret URL prefix validated before waking device, plus FCM throttle and IP rate limiting

Security

• End-to-end encrypted — TLS terminates on your phone. The relay does SNI passthrough only.
• No cloud sync — data is read from on-device sources and served live. Nothing stored remotely.
• Per-device ACME certs — per-device certs via Google Trust Services (DNS-01), private key in Android Keystore (hardware-backed).
• mTLS device auth — relay authenticates the device by client certificate before allowing connections.
• Secret URL prefix — each device URL includes a rotatable per-integration secret (brave-health.abc123.rousecontext.com, where brave-health is {adjective}-{integrationId}). Bots that discover the device subdomain can't wake it without the secret.
• OAuth per-client — each AI client must be authorized via on-device approval before accessing tools.
• Audit trail — every tool invocation is logged locally with arguments, response, and duration.

Building

Android

./gradlew assembleDebug

Requires Android SDK (compileSdk 36, targetSdk 36, minSdk 24). Build requires JDK 21 (JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-21-openjdk).

Coverage report

./gradlew koverHtmlReport

Aggregates line + branch coverage across every module's unit tests and the :core:tunnel:integrationTest tier (real relay subprocess). HTML lands in build/reports/kover/html/index.html. CI publishes the same report as a test-coverage artifact plus a per-module summary on each PR.

Relay

cd relay
cargo build --release

End-to-end tests

The e2e tests drive a real device over adb via a (typically LAN-local) host running adb. The adb.host system property is required and defaults to empty — the :e2e:e2eTest task fails fast if unset. Device serial is optional and only needed if multiple devices are connected to that host.

./gradlew :e2e:e2eTest \
    -Dadb.host=<your-dev-host> \
    -Dadb.serial=<your-device-serial>

The :device-tests module has a separate runner that builds an APK pointed at a locally-running relay. It also requires a LAN IP reachable from the device:

./gradlew :device-tests:test -Dlan.ip=<your-lan-ip>

Without lan.ip, the device-tests skip cleanly via JUnit assumptions.

Status

v1.0 released. 22 tools across 4 integrations, cold-start wake in ~3 seconds, end-to-end encrypted. See docs/design/ for detailed design documents and privacy policy.

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for details.