Open Source Linux AI Assistants
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View 34 business solutionsBrowse free open source AI Assistants and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source AI Assistants by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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OpenClaw
Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform.
OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot/Moltbot) is an open-source, self-hosted autonomous AI assistant designed to run on user-controlled hardware and bridge conversational natural language with real-world task execution, effectively acting as a proactive digital assistant rather than a reactive chatbot. It lets you send instructions through familiar messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, iMessage, and more, and then interprets those instructions to carry out actions such as managing calendars, sending emails or messages, browsing the web, executing system commands, and coordinating workflows across services — all while maintaining long-term memory and context across sessions. Because it runs locally or on infrastructure you choose (like a personal computer, VPS, or Raspberry Pi), OpenClaw emphasizes data ownership, privacy, and full transparency into how your instructions are handled and what actions are taken, giving users autonomy over their AI workflows. -
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Jarvis
Personal Assistant for Linux and macOS
Jarvis is a simple personal assistant for Linux, MacOS and Windows which works on the command line. He can talk to you if you enable his voice. He can tell you the weather, he can find restaurants and other places near you. He can do some great stuff for you. In order to start Jarvis just clone this repository and run python installer. Run Jarvis from anywhere by command jarvis. You can start by typing help within the Jarvis command line to check what Jarvis can do for you. Plugins may be modified using the decorators @alias, @require and @complete. These special decorators may be used in any order or several times.Not all plugins are compatible with every system. To specify compatibility constraints, use the require-feature. -
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OpenJarvis
Personal AI, On Personal Devices
OpenJarvis is an open-source framework designed to build personal AI agents that run primarily on local devices rather than relying on cloud infrastructure. Developed as part of the Intelligence Per Watt research initiative, it focuses on improving the efficiency and practicality of on-device AI systems. The framework provides shared primitives for building local-first agents, along with evaluation tools that measure performance using metrics such as energy consumption, latency, cost, and accuracy. OpenJarvis integrates with local inference engines like Ollama, vLLM, SGLang, and llama.cpp to run language models directly on personal hardware. It also includes a learning loop that allows models to improve over time using locally generated interaction traces. By prioritizing local execution and efficiency, OpenJarvis aims to provide a foundation for privacy-preserving personal AI assistants. -
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ChatGPT Desktop Application
🔮 ChatGPT Desktop Application (Mac, Windows and Linux)
ChatGPT Desktop Application (Mac, Windows and Linux) -
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Mycroft
Mycroft Core, the Mycroft Artificial Intelligence platform
Mycroft is the world’s leading open source voice assistant. It is private by default and completely customizable. Our software runs on many platforms, on desktop, our reference hardware, a Raspberry Pi, or your own custom hardware. Our open-source, modular system can be ported to your device or environment, at any price point. Whether you make voice-assistants, televisions, or microwaves. Whether you have a 5-room BnB or a 1000-room hotel. Your customers will get access to all the necessities of a voice assistant. Our software and essential services are free (as in freedom) and also gratis (at no cost to you or them). And especially not at the cost of their (or your) privacy! Your customers will be able to upgrade their experience with premium content and services. The Mycroft open source voice stack can be freely remixed, extended, and deployed anywhere. Mycroft may be used in anything from a science project to a global enterprise environment. -
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PicoClaw
Ultra-Efficient AI Assistant in Go
PicoClaw is an ultra-lightweight, open-source personal AI assistant written in Go, architected from the ground up to operate with extremely low memory usage (under 10 MB) and fast boot times, making it suitable for inexpensive hardware platforms and embedded devices. Inspired by earlier AI assistant projects like “nanobot,” it was refactored to emphasize resource efficiency while still supporting meaningful AI-driven interactions such as conversational workflows, planning tasks, and automation. PicoClaw can run on hardware costing as little as $10 and on resource-constrained environments like RISC-V or ARM boards, with cross-architecture portability achieved through a single self-contained binary. The project’s goals include broad platform support (including Linux, macOS, and multiple CPU architectures), rapid startup times that make the assistant feel responsive, and integration with popular messaging platforms via gateways or bots. -
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Jan.ai
Open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline
Jan.ai is an open-source, privacy-focused AI assistant that serves as an alternative to ChatGPT, running completely locally on your device. It allows you to download and run LLMs (local language models) offline while also offering optional integration with cloud-based model providers—giving you full control over your data and AI interactions. Download and run LLMs (Llama, Gemma, Qwen, GPT-oss etc.) from HuggingFace. Connect to GPT models via OpenAI, Claude models via Anthropic, Mistral, Groq, and others. Create specialized AI assistants for your tasks. MCP integration for agentic capabilities. -
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Chatbox
The Ultimate AI Copilot on Your Desktop
Chatbox is a cross-platform desktop AI client designed to give you a fast, polished, and private way to work with modern language models. It runs locally on Windows, macOS, and Linux, keeping your conversations and data stored on your own device. Chatbox acts as a unified interface for popular LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and local models via Ollama, making it easy to switch providers without changing tools. Built with an ergonomic UI, it’s optimized for long sessions, prompt experimentation, and everyday productivity. The app supports rich formatting, streaming responses, and advanced prompting to help you get clearer, more useful outputs. For individuals and teams alike, Chatbox serves as a powerful desktop copilot that blends simplicity with flexibility. -
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ZeroClaw
Fast, small, and fully autonomous AI assistant infrastructure
ZeroClaw is a Rust-native autonomous AI agent framework engineered for teams and developers who need highly efficient, secure, and modular AI automation infrastructure that can run reliably in both production and self-hosted environments. It is designed around a trait-based architecture so that model providers, communication channels, memory systems, and tooling integrations can be swapped or extended without rewriting core components, giving engineers flexibility and long-term maintainability. The framework features a compact single binary with fast cold and warm startup times and very low memory overhead, making it suitable even for resource-constrained hardware like small servers or edge devices. Security is a first-class concern, with sandbox controls, encrypted secrets, allowlisted operations, and scoped filesystem access by default, helping reduce risk when running autonomous agents. -
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CoPaw
Your Personal AI Assistant; easy to install, deploy on local or coud
CoPaw is a personal AI assistant designed to run on your own machine or in the cloud, giving you full control over memory, models, and data. Built by the AgentScope team, it connects to multiple chat platforms—including DingTalk, Feishu, QQ, Discord, iMessage, and more—through a single unified assistant. CoPaw supports both cloud-based LLM providers and fully local models such as llama.cpp, MLX, and Ollama, allowing you to operate without API keys if preferred. It includes a browser-based Console for chatting, configuring models, managing memory, and extending capabilities with custom skills. With built-in cron scheduling, heartbeat check-ins, and extensible skill loading, CoPaw grows with your workflow over time. Easy installation options—including pip, one-line scripts, Docker, and cloud deployment—make it accessible for both developers and non-technical users. -
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NextChat
Light and Fast AI Assistant
NextChat is a browser extension that injects a floating ChatGPT-style chat sidebar into webpages, enabling instant AI assistance during web browsing. It supports context-aware chatting using page content, quick queries, and code assistance without opening a new tab. Developers appreciate its customization options—like hotkeys, themes, and engine selection—while everyday users enjoy handy tools for writing, summarizing, or brainstorming on the fly. -
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The Pope Bot
Autonomous AI agent that you can configure and build
The Pope Bot is an autonomous AI agent framework that lets users configure and run an AI-powered agent that can perform tasks continuously, day in and day out, by leveraging GitHub Actions, commit history, and secure workflows. It’s designed so that every action taken by the agent is logged as a git commit, giving users complete visibility into what the agent did, why it did it, and when, which makes actions auditable and reversible. The framework treats the repository itself as the agent’s “brain,” and GitHub Actions serve as the compute layer, enabling tasks to run securely without exposing sensitive API keys to the underlying AI. The system integrates with messaging platforms like Telegram, where users can interact with the bot, trigger actions, or receive notifications, and supports scheduling and automation through patterns of request handling. -
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IronClaw
IronClaw is OpenClaw inspired but focused on privacy & security
IronClaw is a security-first, open-source personal AI assistant built in Rust and designed to keep your data fully under your control. It operates on the principle that your AI should work for you, not external vendors, ensuring all data is stored locally, encrypted, and never shared. The platform emphasizes transparency, offering auditable code with no hidden telemetry or data harvesting. IronClaw runs untrusted tools inside isolated WebAssembly (WASM) sandboxes with strict capability-based permissions. It supports multiple interaction channels, including REPL, HTTP webhooks, Telegram, Slack, and a real-time web gateway. With dynamic tool building, persistent memory, and background automation, IronClaw is built to securely expand and adapt to your personal and professional workflows. -
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nanobot
🐈 nanobot: The Ultra-Lightweight Clawdbot / OpenClaw
nanobot is an ultra-lightweight personal AI assistant designed to deliver powerful agent capabilities without unnecessary complexity. Built in just ~4,000 lines of clean, readable code, it offers a minimalist alternative to heavyweight agent frameworks while retaining core intelligence and extensibility. nanobot is optimized for speed and efficiency, enabling fast startup times and low resource usage across environments. Its research-ready architecture makes it easy for developers to understand, customize, and extend for experimentation or production use. With simple one-click deployment and a straightforward CLI, users can get a working AI assistant running in minutes. Inspired by Clawdbot but radically simplified, nanobot proves that capable AI agents don’t need massive codebases. -
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MetaGPT
The Multi-Agent Framework
The Multi-Agent Framework: Given one line Requirement, return PRD, Design, Tasks, Repo. Assign different roles to GPTs to form a collaborative software entity for complex tasks. MetaGPT takes a one-line requirement as input and outputs user stories / competitive analysis/requirements/data structures / APIs / documents, etc. Internally, MetaGPT includes product managers/architects/project managers/engineers. It provides the entire process of a software company along with carefully orchestrated SOPs. -
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5ire
5ire is a cross-platform desktop AI assistant, MCP client
5ire is a sleek, cross‑platform desktop AI assistant and MCP client that connects to major service providers, supports a local knowledge base and tool integration via MCP servers, enabling robust RAG and assistant features. These components are required as they constitute the runtime environment for the MCP Server. If you don't anticipate using the tools feature immediately, you may choose to skip this installation step and complete it later when the need arises. MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs. Think of MCP like a USB-C port for AI applications. Just as USB-C provides a standardized way to connect your devices to various peripherals and accessories, MCP provides a standardized way to connect AI models to different data sources and tools. -
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OpenClaw CN
The Chinese version of OpenClaw
OpenClaw-CN is a Chinese language community adaptation and localization of the OpenClaw project, focused on making a powerful open-source agent framework usable and understandable for Chinese-speaking developers. It includes translated documentation, localized examples, and language-specific nuances so that developers in the Chinese ecosystem can adopt and contribute without a language barrier. The repository mirrors the structure of the upstream project but adds Chinese translations of core workflows, prompts, guidelines, and best practices for building multi-agent systems or AI applications. Beyond simple translation, the project often curates region-specific integrations or tooling recommendations that resonate with local developer environments and platforms. It helps accelerate adoption by providing readable guides, sample configurations, and annotated code that aligns with Chinese developer preferences and tooling conventions. -
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NullClaw
Fastest, smallest, and fully autonomous AI assistant infrastructure
NullClaw is the smallest fully autonomous AI assistant infrastructure, built entirely in Zig as a single static binary with zero runtime dependencies. At just 678 KB with ~1 MB peak RAM usage, it boots in under 2 milliseconds and runs on virtually any hardware, including low-cost ARM boards. Despite its size, it delivers a complete AI stack with 22+ model providers, 18+ communication channels, integrated tools, hybrid memory, and sandboxed runtime support. Its architecture is fully modular, using vtable interfaces that allow providers, channels, tools, memory backends, and runtimes to be swapped without code changes. NullClaw is secure by design, enforcing pairing-based authentication, strict sandboxing, encrypted secrets, resource limits, and workspace scoping by default. Designed for portability and independence, it supports OpenAI-compatible APIs, multiple tunnels, hardware peripherals, and edge deployments including WASM-based logic. -
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SafeClaw
Chat with it via text and voice
SafeClaw is an open-source, entirely local alternative to cloud-based AI assistants like OpenClaw, enabling users to build a personal assistant that runs on their own machine without incurring API usage charges or exposing data to third-party services. It emphasizes privacy and predictability by using traditional programming, rule-based intent parsing, and established machine learning tools rather than large language models, meaning there are no per-token API costs and deterministic behavior. The assistant offers features such as voice control using fully local speech-to-text (Whisper) and text-to-speech (Piper) capabilities, news aggregation with extractive summarization, and smart home or Bluetooth device control. SafeClaw supports multiple channels, including CLI and Telegram, and avoids prompt injection risk because it doesn’t rely on LLMs for core operations. -
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NemoClaw
NVIDIA plugin for secure installation of OpenClaw
NVIDIA NemoClaw is an open-source tool designed to simplify the deployment and management of always-on AI assistants using the OpenClaw ecosystem. It installs and configures the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime, which provides a secure environment for running autonomous AI agents. NemoClaw enables users to launch sandboxed agent environments that control network access, file permissions, and inference requests through policy-based security. The platform integrates with AI models such as NVIDIA Nemotron and supports multiple inference backends including cloud APIs, local NIM deployments, and vLLM. Through its command-line interface, developers can deploy, monitor, and manage AI assistants running inside isolated sandboxes. By combining sandbox orchestration, agent management, and AI model integration, NemoClaw provides a secure foundation for building and operating autonomous AI assistants. -
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Witsy
Witsy: desktop AI assistant
Witsy is a tool designed to assist in the development and deployment of machine learning models, providing a streamlined workflow for data scientists and engineers. -
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OpenAssistant
Chat-based assistant that understands tasks
OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so. In the same way that Stable Diffusion helped the world make art and images in new ways, we want to improve the world by providing amazing conversational AI. We are in the early stages of development, working from established research in applying RLHF to large language models. Open Assistant is a project organized by LAION and individuals around the world interested in bringing this technology to everyone. The code and models are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. Open Assistant will be free to use and modify. There will be versions which will be runnable on consumer hardware. You do not need to run the project locally unless you are contributing to the development process. The website link above will take you to the public website where you can use the data collection app. -
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GPT Computer Assistant
gpt-4o for windows, macos and linux
This is an alternative work for providing ChatGPT MacOS app to Windows and Linux. In this way, this is a fresh and stable work. You can easily install as a Python library for this time but we will prepare a pipeline for providing native install scripts (.exe). -
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Leon
Leon is your open-source personal assistant
Leon is an open-source personal AI assistant platform that lets users run a conversational agent locally or on their own servers, providing an alternative to cloud-hosted assistants with a focus on privacy, extensibility, and modular components. It’s designed to process natural language queries and perform tasks such as information retrieval, task automation, scheduling, and custom workflows defined by the user. The architecture emphasizes modularity: you can plug in different language models, intent recognizers, or action handlers to tailor Leon for specific domains like productivity, home automation, or developer tooling. Because it runs independently of third-party cloud services, Leon gives users full control over their data and system behavior, which is especially important for privacy-conscious users and organizations. -
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PyGPT
Open source personal AI Assistant for Linux, Windows and Mac
PyGPT is a desktop application that allows you to talk to OpenAI's LLM models such as GPT4 and GPT3 using your own computer and OpenAI API. It allows you to talk in chat mode and in completion mode, as well as generate images using DALL-E 2. PyGPT also adds access to the Internet for GPT via Google Custom Search API and Wikipedia API and includes voice synthesis using Microsoft Azure Text-to-Speech API. Moreover, the application has implemented context memory support, context storage, history of contexts, which can be restored at any time and e.g. continue the conversation from point in history, and also has a convenient and intuitive system of presets that allows you to quickly and pleasantly create and manage your prompts. Plugins support is also available.
