{"id":343125,"date":"2025-10-21T10:58:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcloud.com\/?p=343125"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:09:20","slug":"how-to-automate-tasks-with-open-source-ai-agent-tools-in-nextcloud-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcloud.com\/fr\/blog\/how-to-automate-tasks-with-open-source-ai-agent-tools-in-nextcloud-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"How to automate tasks with open source AI agent tools in Nextcloud Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

AI agents are becoming increasingly sophisticated and widely adopted, which inevitably raises the risk to privacy and ethics. But we here love a good privacy challenge. That\u2019s why we started to introduce open source AI agent tools in Nextcloud Assistant, your private, local AI assistant that doesn\u2019t prey on your data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Nextcloud, we want to make sure you’re in control of your data at all times, including when you are working with your AI tools. Let\u2019s explore AI agent features in Nextcloud Assistant and how to easily set up and start using them without risking your privacy and control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First things first: What is an AI agent?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

AI agent tools help you automate routine tasks by using data and reason to perform authorized actions on your behalf, given a certain degree of autonomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sounds pretty general? AI agents can be many things, depending on their complexity, knowledge of your data, or purpose. For example, an AI support agent can help you set up a help desk, automate easy help requests, and forward more demanding requests to your human team. An AI Sales assistant can answer product questions, schedule demos and meetings, and qualify leads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or an agent can be your AI copilot that finds data for you, helps you generate ideas and proofread your texts (or code), and performs tasks like sending emails and chat messages, creating files, and scheduling calendar appointments. Well, much like a personal assistant, which explains its name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the hood, AI agents combine a Large Language Model (LLM) for an easy, human-like interface, API access to interact with your apps and data, and a layer of autonomy that lets them make data-driven decisions and carry out tasks as part of your AI workflows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proprietary AI agents: privacy trade-off for Big Tech convenience?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

AI agents often require access to a wide range of user data: personal, financial, internal company documentation, and sensitive email communication. In proprietary services’ hands, even with robust security promises, this carries a great privacy risk<\/a>. Using closed-source, third-party cloud-hosted models involves sharing a lot of sensitive data with a provider, which can lead to serious regulatory penalties and data breaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More often than not, agents built on proprietary models lack transparency regarding how they are trained<\/a>, leading to biases and misinformation. In turn, given extensive permissions an AI agent may have, these bias can translate into operational roadblocks and errors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, private users and companies tend to trade off their privacy for the simple convenience that the robust external services can provide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What can Nextcloud offer as an alternative, ensuring you can access the benefits of agentic AI without giving up your data?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do open source AI agent tools work in Nextcloud Hub?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

AI tools in Nextcloud are accessible via Nextcloud Assistant: your personal assistant that connects a variety of modern AI tools with your ecosystem and integrates deeply with some of the apps via specialized features.<\/p>\n\n\n

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