Private Notes Ability

[VaughnHays]

What does this Ability do?

A note-taking Ability for OpenHome that stays private by design. Your OpenHome Personality will never surface them unprompted.

Suggested Trigger Words

note, notes, take a note, note this down, read my notes,
delete my notes, my notes, edit my note, update my note,
change my note, fix my note

Type

• [ x] New community Ability
• Improvement to existing Ability
• Bug fix
• Documentation update

External APIs

• No external APIs
• Uses external API(s):

Testing

• Tested in OpenHome Live Editor
• All exit paths tested (said "stop", "exit", etc.)
• Error scenarios tested (API down, bad input, etc.)

Checklist

• Files are in community/my-ability-name/
• main.py follows SDK pattern (extends MatchingCapability, has register_capability + call)
• [ x] README.md included with description, suggested triggers, and setup
• [ x] resume_normal_flow() called on every exit path
• [ x] No print() — using editor_logging_handler
• [ x] No hardcoded API keys — using placeholders
• [ ]x No blocked imports (redis, user_config)
• [ x] No asyncio.sleep() or asyncio.create_task() — using session_tasks
• [ x] Error handling on all external calls
• [ x] Tested in OpenHome Live Editor

[github-actions]

🔀 Branch Merge Check

PR direction: private_notes → dev

✅ Passed — private_notes → dev is a valid merge direction

[github-actions]

✅ Community PR Path Check — Passed

All changed files are inside the community/ folder. Looks good!

[github-actions]

✅ Ability Validation Passed

📋 Validating: community/private-notes
  ✅ All checks passed!

[github-actions]

🔍 Lint Results

✅ __init__.py — Empty as expected

Files linted: community/private-notes/main.py

✅ Flake8 — Passed

✅ All checks passed!

[uzair401]

Hi @VaughnHays, great work on this ability. I’ve made some updates, but a few additional changes are still needed to make it fully compliant with the latest SDK methods. Please review the guides below, update the code accordingly, and reopen the PR.

https://docs.openhome.com/
https://github.com/openhome-dev/abilities/blob/dev/docs/OpenHome_SDK_Reference.md