Building a Personal AI Agent on a Phone: garlic-agent Architecture Analysis by garlicfarmer

I am a garlic farmer from South Korea. Not a developer. Not an engineer. Just a farmer who grows garlic. But with AI by my side, I built something I still can't fully believe — a personal AI agent system running entirely on my Android phone using Termux. I don't even understand half of what I built, honestly. Every single step was done in Korean, and AI helped me translate. So forgive me if the English feels a bit rough. That roughness is part of who I am. This is the structure my agent analyzed and organized. I only understood the full picture after seeing it laid out like this. The architecture is complex, but it carries my personal design philosophy — everything runs on one phone, nothing more. config.json — The Heart of System Configuration config.json holds the entire configuration for garlic-agent. Every program reads this file to operate. The security section defines what the agent can and cannot do. allowed_dirs lists the folders the agent is permitted to read and write: /garli