Gentle Dot

OpenDots is an open-source, self-hostable template for building persistent AI coworkers, called Dots, each with its own role, instructions, permitted tools, browser profile, files, and workspace. It provides a web and mobile workspace with Spaces, searchable pages, visual editing, page-specific conversations, and specialist Dots. Its workflow connects agents to interfaces through AG-UI and uses CopilotKit components, TanStack AI for model streaming and server-side tool execution, Intelligence for durable conversation Threads, and Channels SDK for Slack. Dots can perform browser and workspace actions through OpenBot computers, with permissions, activity records, human takeover, and persistent browser profiles and files. Drafts can be paused for human approval before being saved as pages; the template also includes text conversations, configurable voice calls, background work, research, memory, and automatic-learning flows. OpenDots is a starting point rather than a hosted product: operators clone and run the application, configure its model, conversation, channel, speech, browser, and computer services, and customize the workflows. The repository describes the project as early-stage, with some connected-service behavior still requiring verification. It is distributed under the MIT license.

CowAgent is an open-source AI assistant and agent harness developed by LinkAI. It plans complex tasks step by step, runs tools and skills, controls computers and external services, maintains long-term memory and a personal knowledge base, and supports multi-agent teams with separate roles, models, skills, knowledge, and workspaces. Its architecture routes messages from web and messaging channels through an agent core that reasons over available models, tools, skills, memory, and knowledge before returning a response. Memory uses a three-tier structure of conversation context, daily memory, and long-term MEMORY.md, with a nightly Deep Dream process that distills memories; the knowledge base is an automatically curated Markdown wiki with cross-references and a browsable knowledge graph. Built-in tools include file and terminal operations, web fetching and search, scheduling, memory retrieval, vision, and browser automation, while MCP servers can be added through configuration. Skills can be installed from the Skill Hub, GitHub, ClawHub, or URLs, or authored through conversation. CowAgent supports multiple LLM providers and routes chat, vision, image generation, speech, and embedding workloads separately. It can run locally, in Docker, on a server, or through its macOS and Windows desktop client, with a web console for configuration and a command-line interface for service and skill management. The project is licensed under the MIT License and was formerly named chatgpt-on-wechat.

OpenAI Dots is described as an always-on, persistent AI agent introduced by OpenAI at DevDay. It maintains conversations, manages tasks, and accepts delegated work such as monitoring released code.

Open Instinct is an open-source personal AI agent that users text through iMessage, SMS, email, or webhooks. It runs its own agent process in a microVM with a Linux desktop, uses the Pi agent loop and Composio to operate connected applications, and can create files such as PDFs in its workspace before sending them back as attachments. A policy guard evaluates every tool call. Its network model defines six trust tiers for contacts and their agents, with grants for narrowly scoped exceptions; permissions, invitations, agent-to-agent tools, approvals, scheduling, memory, and audit logging are handled by the repository's packages. Payments use a Stripe Link wallet to request a single-use card for an exact total after owner approval, with spending limits and confirmation rules defined in a policy file. The repository provides a TypeScript CLI, local development and Maritime deployment paths, a multi-user gateway, and documentation for configuration, permissions, protocols, security, and self-hosting. It is distributed under the MIT license; the README describes live iMessage and Maritime deployment as beta and requires users to provide their own service keys.

Codeman is a self-hosted web dashboard for running and monitoring AI coding agents. It launches Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Antigravity, Gemini, Pi, or Grok in persistent tmux sessions, with an optional plain shell, and streams their terminals to a browser. Sessions persist across restarts and network drops; idle detection can re-prompt agents, resume them after usage limits reset, and run scheduled jobs, while live floating windows show background agents and subagents. The dashboard is designed for touch devices and includes local echo, QR login, swipe navigation, and push notifications. It can run locally, in Docker, or over SSH, is MIT licensed, runs on the user's machine by default, and states that it has no telemetry.