CyrilXBT|Sep 03, 2026 12:33
grok bot just got open sourced, and it runs locally, completely free. mit licensed.
it's called openbot, from copilotkit. every ai agent gets its own computer, its own browser, its own filesystem, its own container. no bot can read another's files or reuse another's logins.
every action gets checked against a policy before it runs, and written to an audit trail after, each refusal naming the specific rule that blocked it.
setup:
git clone https://github.com/CopilotKit/OpenBot
cd OpenBot
cp .env.example .env
npx --yes copilotkit@latest login
npx --yes copilotkit@latest project select
npx --yes copilotkit@latest license --write
drop the cpk key into .env as INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY, add your model key, then:
bun install
bash scripts/start.sh
open localhost:3010.
works with any ag-ui agent, langgraph, mastra, crewai, pydantic ai, google adk, or hand-written. code is mit, free forever. you pay your own model tokens. intelligence has a free tier and can be fully self-hosted.
worth knowing: it's alpha, actively developed, released august 17. i couldn't independently confirm the specific "3.8k stars in 2 weeks" figure, worth checking the live repo before repeating that number.
http://github.com/CopilotKit/OpenBot(CyrilXBT)
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