OpenMausBot: open-source Grok Bot alternative that runs a team of AI bots on your own machine
Local-first chat app where every bot in the sidebar is a real Claude, Codex or Grok CLI agent with its own model, personality, memory and computer, plus 500+ connected apps through Composio, under Apache 2.0.
Why it matters
Recreates the roster-of-bots shape without the cloud subscription: it rides the agent CLIs users already pay for, and transcripts, keys and events stay on the user's own disk.
What you could build with it
A freelance developer could run a small bot roster, one bot triaging inbox threads and another drafting code changes, each with its own model and tools, without paying for a second cloud agent subscription.
Does it hold up?
Genuinely usable today with signed macOS builds and 7.5k stars, but it still depends on paid Claude, Codex or Grok CLIs underneath, and Linux support remains beta.
Built with OpenMausBot
- OpenMausBot vs Grok Bot vs Hermes Agentblog · Independent comparison of the local-first open-source bot roster against xAI's cloud Grok Bot and Nous Research's Hermes Agent.
- MausBot: open source Grok Bot, free and local, on Product Huntproducthunt · Launch post from the builders describing parallel bots, per-bot models, and GitHub, Gmail and Slack connections.
- Grok-bot projects on GitHub: OpenMausBot hot right nowgithub · Trending tracker listing OpenMausBot at 7K stars as a local-first Grok Bot alternative.
Learn more
First spotted on github: source.
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