milind-soni / OpenMausBot

# OpenMausBot
**The open-source Grok Bot alternative: your own team of AI bots, in a chat app.**
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 OpenMausBot is an open-source Grok Bot alternative: an independent project inspired by **Grok Bot**, and the open-source alternative to **Meta Muse**, **OpenAI dots** and **Cue by Manus** — bring-your-own-agent, local-first, on the models you already have. Also known as **MausBot**; formerly **OpenGrokBot**. Not affiliated with xAI, Meta, OpenAI or Manus. 
Every bot in the sidebar is a real agent — Claude or Codex running locally under the hood — with its own
personality, its own model, its own cloud computer, and its own connected apps.
Talk to them like contacts. Watch them work. Approve what matters.
 latest release  ·  macOS: Apple silicon & Intel · signed & notarized .dmg  ·  Windows: x64 installer  ·  Ubuntu 24.04 x64: .deb or AppImage beta  ·  all releases 
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> ⚠️ **No affiliation with any cryptocurrency.** OpenMausBot has no token. Any coin using the OpenMausBot, Maus, or SupaMaus name is not created, endorsed, or affiliated with this project or its maintainer. I have received no tokens, payment, or allocation from anyone, and I will not be endorsing any token.
## Why
One assistant in one box is the wrong shape for agents. OpenMausBot is an independent, open-source project inspired by **Grok Bot** —
it keeps the idea (AI as a *messaging app*: a roster of bots you chat with, each with its own personality,
memory of its thread, model, computer, and apps) and rebuilds it open, local-first, and on the agents you
already have:
- **Bring your own agents.** Bots run on the `claude`, `codex`, and `grok` CLIs installed on your own machine
 — your existing logins and subscriptions, no new accounts, no proxy in the middle. Point any engine at a
 custom CLI binary (a versioned build or wrapper) in **Settings → Engines**.
- **Local first.** One small harness server on `127.0.0.1` owns every agent process. Transcripts, keys, and
 events live in `~/.openmausbot`, not a cloud.
- **Agents with hands.** Each bot can use a cloud Linux desktop, an isolated Local VM, or—where the platform
 safety boundary is currently certified—your own computer, plus 500+ apps through Composio. Host control is
 available on macOS and Ubuntu Xorg after explicit opt-in. Ubuntu Wayland host control remains disabled while
 issue #345 is resolved.
## The open-source alternative to Grok Bot, Muse, dots and Cue
Four closed personal-agent products shipped in seven weeks of 2026, and each one keeps the model, the
computer and your data on its maker's side of the line. OpenMausBot is the open-source version of that
shape: a team of agents in a chat app, each with its own model, its own computer and its own connected
apps, running on your machine under Apache 2.0. If you searched for an *open Muse*, *open dots*, an
*open-source Grok Bot*, an *open Instinct* or an *open Cue*, this is the