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OpenMausBot is an open-source, local-first chat application for managing a team of AI bots as separate contacts. Each bot can have its own personality, model, conversation thread, computer, and connected applications, using agents launched through locally installed Claude, Codex, or Grok command-line tools and existing user logins. A local harness server on 127.0.0.1 manages agent processes, transcripts, keys, and events in the user's local OpenMausBot data directory. Bots can work through a cloud Linux desktop, an isolated local virtual machine, or—where supported—the host computer. Shell commands, file edits, and questions are routed through a permission broker and shown as approval or response cards. The application includes model selection, bot and conversation management, browser-accessible desktop takeover, and connected applications through Composio, including services such as Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Notion, and Linear. The repository provides desktop distributions for macOS, Windows, and Ubuntu, with Ubuntu Wayland host control disabled according to the README while a stated issue is resolved.

AI Manager is a local-first desktop application for installing, updating, configuring, and repairing AI coding command-line tools on a user's computer. It provides a single interface for checking installed tools, managing versions, connecting tools to reviewed or custom HTTPS AI-service endpoints, and viewing the effective endpoint and environment-variable overrides without editing shell profiles or PATH files. Its sidebar includes software management, API endpoints, skills, MCP connections, global prompts, sessions, and settings. It installs skills from trusted GitHub catalogues or local ZIP files, supports stdio, HTTP, and SSE MCP servers, and searches local coding-tool sessions that can be resumed in a terminal. Tool behavior is controlled by a capability registry, and the application uses local signals for checks rather than claiming a process is healthy without evidence. The application is built with Tauri 2 and React 18 and is released under the GNU AGPL-3.0-or-later. It has no analytics or telemetry SDK, stores product data locally, and offers signed update verification and platform-specific installers. Provider credentials are currently stored in plaintext in the local database, backups, and SQL configuration exports. AI Manager began as a fork of CC Switch, with inherited portions retaining their original MIT licensing.

Munder Difflin is a free, open-source desktop multi-agent harness that runs multiple terminal-based AI coding agents as coordinated local agents. It wraps agents including Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, Qwen, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot CLI, and custom commands, working with users' existing subscriptions and hourly usage limits. Each agent runs as a real node-pty process and is rendered through xterm.js, while an Electron and React interface displays sessions as avatars on a Pixi.js office floor. A GOD orchestrator called Michael assigns and routes work, adjudicates agent messages, and escalates spending, destructive operations, scope changes, and other configured approvals. Agents coordinate through a local Git-backed hive of plain-file memory, atomic mailboxes, a shared blackboard, and an append-only event log; a markdown-first semantic memory layer supports recall across sessions. Optional Git worktrees isolate parallel agents.

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.

Codex Router is an independent community project that routes external AI models into the Codex app and CLI, adding providers such as Kimi, DeepSeek, Anthropic, xAI, and GitHub Copilot alongside native models. It provides guided provider authentication, keeps credentials on the local computer, and supports safe migration and rollback of recognized older setups. The project includes a command-line installer and setup flow, an Electron Control Center, a tray or menu-bar application, and a macOS desktop widget; one installation can also serve DeepSeek Harness and Gemini CLI. It supports macOS, Linux, and Windows, and is not affiliated with OpenAI or the other referenced model and platform providers.