RuView
π RuView turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time spatial intelligence, vital sign monitoring, and presence detection — all without a single pixel of video.
Install / Use
npx skills add ruvnet/RuViewInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
CLAUDE.md
Claude Code project instructions
Quality Score
Category
SecuritySupported Platforms
Our assessment of RuView
RuView scores 92/100 on our quality scale, 383rd of 1,101 Security skills we index (top 35%).
Its CLAUDE.md is 75 KB long, well organised into 74 sections with 8 code examples: long enough that it reads more like full documentation than a focused instruction file, which agents can find harder to follow.
With 103,105 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated today, so RuView is actively maintained.
- It is released under the MIT license, a permissive license that allows use, modification and commercial use with attribution.
- Its trust signals score 100/100, with no cautions. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
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Frequently asked questions
- How do I install RuView?
- Run
npx skills add ruvnet/RuView. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does RuView work with?
- It is written for Claude Code, as a CLAUDE.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is RuView safe to use?
- It is MIT-licensed and scores 100/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is RuView still maintained?
- The repository was last updated today, so RuView is actively maintained.
Skill content
View source on GitHubπ RuView
<p align="center"> <a href="https://cognitum.one/seed"> <img src="assets/ruview-hero-h3-v3.gif" alt="RuView - WiFi DensePose — animated visualization of real-time pose estimation, breathing, and heart-rate sensing through WiFi" width="100%"> </a> </p> <table> <tr> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="docs/user-guide.md"><img src="assets/readme/nav-start-spatial-v4.svg" width="180" alt="Start here" /></a><br/><a href="docs/user-guide.md">Start here</a></td> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="firmware/esp32-csi-node/README.md"><img src="assets/readme/nav-hardware-spatial-v4.svg" width="180" alt="Hardware" /></a><br/><a href="firmware/esp32-csi-node/README.md">Hardware</a></td> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="https://huggingface.co/ruvnet/wifi-densepose-pretrained"><img src="assets/readme/nav-models-spatial-v4.svg" width="180" alt="Models" /></a><br/><a href="https://huggingface.co/ruvnet/wifi-densepose-pretrained">Models</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="harness/ruview/README.md"><img src="assets/readme/nav-agents-spatial-v4.svg" width="180" alt="AI toolkit" /></a><br/><a href="harness/ruview/README.md">AI toolkit</a></td> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="docs/integrations/home-assistant.md"><img src="assets/readme/nav-home-spatial-v4.svg" width="180" alt="Smart home" /></a><br/><a href="docs/integrations/home-assistant.md">Smart home</a></td> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="https://cognitum.one/seed"><img src="assets/readme/nav-seed-spatial-v4.svg" width="180" alt="Cognitum Seed" /></a><br/><a href="https://cognitum.one/seed">Cognitum Seed</a></td> </tr> </table> <p align="center"> <a href="https://ruos.cognitum.one"> <img src="assets/ruos-animated.svg" alt="RuView — WiFi becomes spatial awareness, with Ruflo coordination and a ruOS sensing workspace" width="100%"> </a> </p>See through walls with WiFi
Turn ordinary WiFi into a spatial intelligence / sensing system. Detect people, measure breathing and heart rate, track movement, and monitor rooms — through walls, in the dark, with no cameras or wearables. Just physics.
Works natively with the four major smart-home ecosystems: Home Assistant via the HA-DISCO MQTT publisher, Apple Home & HomePod as a discoverable HAP-1.1 bridge, Google Home + Amazon Alexa via the same HA bridge or a Matter endpoint. Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa can voice presence and vitals by room with zero custom skills.
Drop into any Home Assistant install with one
--mqttflag. Or pair into Apple Home / Google Home / Alexa / SmartThings as a Matter Bridge. Ships 21 entities per node (11 raw signals + 10 inferred semantic states: someone-sleeping, possible-distress, room-active, elderly-inactivity-anomaly, meeting-in-progress, bathroom-occupied, fall-risk-elevated, bed-exit, no-movement, multi-room-transition) plus 3 starter HA Blueprints. Seedocs/integrations/home-assistant.md· ADR-115.
π RuView is a WiFi sensing platform that turns radio signals into spatial intelligence.
Every WiFi router already fills your space with radio waves. When people move, breathe, or even sit still, they disturb those waves in measurable ways. RuView captures these disturbances using Channel State Information (CSI) from low-cost ESP32 sensors and turns them into actionable data: who's there, what they're doing, and whether they're okay.
What it senses:
- Presence and occupancy — detect people through walls, count them, track entries and exits
- Vital signs — breathing rate and heart rate, contactless, while sleeping or sitting
- Activity recognition — walking, sitting, gestures, falls — from temporal CSI patterns
- Environment mapping — RF fingerprinting identifies rooms, detects moved furniture, spots new objects
- Sleep quality — overnight monitoring with sleep stage classification and apnea screening
Also included:
- Camera-free pose — estimate 17 body keypoints from WiFi CSI
- Built-in model workflow — record CSI, train models, load RVF files, and switch LoRA profiles
- Local automation — HOMECORE provides state, history, automations, signed Wasm plugins, voice hooks, and HomeKit support
- Unified RF world model — combine WiFi CSI, radar, UWB, and cellular sensing in one privacy-bounded scene model; accuracy is still synthetic until real-data validation
- Governed evidence — attach privacy policy, uncertainty, provenance, and witness records to sensing events
- RuView MetaHarness — use an AI operator to onboard, calibrate, train, verify, and check sensing claims
The RuView-specific metaharness we created is published as @ruvnet/ruview. It provides:
- source-cited guidance;
- device access for CSI nodes, radar and LiDAR;
- firmware flashing with boot evidence;
- one MCP server, usable over stdio or HTTP for ChatGPT, with a live console widget;
- a Claude Code mod;
- guarded Claude Code/Codex agents;
- deterministic verification;
- an honesty check for accuracy claims.
Companion packages: homecore (Homecore developer metaharness) and @ruvnet/ruview-kernel (the vitals pipeline as WASM).
# Check the local setup and get source-cited guidance
npx @ruvnet/ruview@0.9.1 doctor
npx @ruvnet/ruview@0.9.1 guidance --topic sensing --query "model loading"
# Hardware: what is plugged in, live CSI from your nodes, a 60 GHz radar kit
npx @ruvnet/ruview@0.9.1 devices
npx @ruvnet/ruview@0.9.1 esp32 --watch # ESP32 + Realtek RAC1 nodes, live view
npx @ruvnet/ruview@0.9.1 esp32 --seconds 45 --analyze # live CSI through the vitals kernel
npx @ruvnet/ruview@0.9.1 mmwave --source esphome --host <kit-ip>
# Agents: MCP over stdio, or over HTTP for ChatGPT (token-protected, read tools only)
npx @ruvnet/ruview@0.9.1 mcp start
RUVIEW_MCP_GRANTS=device-access npx @ruvnet/ruview@0.9.1 mcp start --http
# Claude Code: a live sensing pane (/ruview), shipped in the package
npx @ruvnet/ruview@0.9.1 mod
# Run a read-only RuView agent through Codex
npx @ruvnet/ruview@0.9.1 agent run --host codex --repo . \
--prompt "Find the nearest tests and cite the source files"
# Check claims, replay the deterministic proof, search the reviewed brain
npx @ruvnet/ruview@0.9.1 claim-check --file REPORT.md
npx @ruvnet/ruview@0.9.1 verify
npx @ruvnet/ruview@0.9.1 brain search --query "calibration"
Safety:
- Agent runs are read-only by default. Workspace writes require both
--allow-writeand--confirm. - Hardware reads need the
device-accessgrant. - Flashing and calibration never run over the HTTP transport.
- Device-reported vitals are labelled as unvalidated.
- Retrieved brain content is evidence, not authority.
A single npx ruview package bundling all of this is ready (ADR-376). It is waiting on npm to release the unscoped name.
Full walkthrough: user guide → RuView npm toolkit.
</details>Built on RuVector and Cognitum Seed, RuView runs entirely on edge hardware — an ESP32 mesh (as low as $9 per node) paired with a Cognitum Seed for persistent memory, cryptographic attestation, and AI integration. No cloud, no cameras, no internet required.
The system learns each environment locally using spiking neural networks that adapt in under 30 seconds, with multi-frequency mesh scanning across 6 WiFi channels that uses your neighbors' routers as free radar illuminators. Every measurement is cryptographically attested via an Ed25519 witness chain.
RuView turns ordinary WiFi into a contactless sensor. A $9 ESP32 board reads the radio reflections off the people in a room, and a small pretrained model — published on Hugging Face at ruvnet/wifi-densepose-pretrained — tells you who's there, how they're breathing, and how their heart rate is trending. The model fits in 8 KB (4-bit quantized) and runs in microseconds on a Raspberry Pi. (The v2 encoder reports an honest, label-free held-out temporal-triplet accuracy of 82.3% — up from 66.4% raw; the older "100% presence" figure was measured on a single-class recording and has been retracted in favor of this.) No cameras, no wearables, no app on the user's phone.
Built for low-power edge applications
Edge modules are small programs that run directly on the ESP32 sensor — no internet needed, no cloud fees, instant response.
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