gptme

gptme is an open-source personal AI agent by Erik Bjäreholt that runs anywhere a terminal runs: laptops, SSH sessions, tmux, headless servers, and CI pipelines. Started in spring 2023 (predating Claude Code), it is provider-agnostic and local-first, working with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Requesty, ChatGPT/Grok subscriptions, or fully local models via Ollama and any OpenAI-compatible server. It ships with shell, Python, web browsing (Playwright), vision, and plugin support, plus MCP integration and multi-agent orchestration.

Its distinguishing design is persistent autonomous agents whose memory lives in a git repo you own, with self-improving agent architecture, cross-harness memory utilities, and guardrails. The author later joined Lovable as a founding hire before leaving to focus on Superuser Labs full-time, and gptme remains in very active development. Limitations: as a community open-source project it has less polish and support than commercial agents, setup requires comfort with terminals and API keys, and its power comes with the usual risks of an unconstrained local agent.

curl -sSf https://gptme.ai/install.sh | sh (auto-detects uv or pipx), or pipx install gptme / uv tool install gptme; configure a provider API key on first run.