OpenBot is a local-first desktop workspace for persistent AI teammates. It supports the local Codex App Server and Claude Code, plus Grok CLI, OpenCode, Gemini, Cursor CLI, and Cline CLI through ACP. It gives every agent its own workspace and conversation, and provides local queues, file transfers, an embedded browser, and agent-to-agent messaging in one desktop app.
Warning
OpenBot is a development preview. Agents currently run with danger-full-access and
approvalPolicy: never. They can read and modify files, run commands, use the network, and control
the embedded browser without per-action confirmations after the explicit first-launch consent.
Run only agents and tasks you trust, keep backups, and review Security before use.
- Prompt-driven agent creation and editing on desktop and mobile, with editable instructions, avatar, and section review before saving.
- Persistent agents backed by independent Codex, Claude, Grok, OpenCode, Gemini, Cursor, or Cline sessions and local workspaces.
- Custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints and custom ACP agents, with detection of local model servers (Ollama, LM Studio) and installed agents.
- Per-agent context monitoring with automatic compaction before long threads exhaust the model window.
- FIFO message queues with pause, resume, cancellation, and crash-safe persistence.
- Agent-to-agent messages, replies, reactions, images, and managed file transfers.
- Shared desktop channel chats with one task owner, explicit delegation, shared history, and Stop, Resume, Reassign, Archive, and Restore controls.
- A persistent embedded browser that agents can open, inspect, and control.
- Optional Computer Use on macOS, Windows and Linux through the
cua-driverbinary in the release, which OpenBot starts as its own child process and gives to every provider. - Per-agent model, reasoning, profile, notification, browser, and panel state.
- Local data and privacy-safe diagnostics exports from the account menu.
- Optional OpenBot accounts through one-time email codes. The account API runs on Cloudflare Workers and D1.