CowAgent
Open-source super AI assistant & Agent Harness. Plans tasks, runs tools and skills, self-evolves with memory and knowledge. Multi-model, multi-channel. Lightweight, extensible, one-line install.
An always-on personal assistant that controls your computer and chat platforms.
About CowAgent
CowAgent is an open-source super AI assistant that proactively plans tasks, controls your computer and external services, creates and runs Skills, builds a personal knowledge base and long-term memory, and grows alongside you through self-evolution — a reference implementation of Agent Harness engineering.
CowAgent is lightweight, easy to deploy, and built to extend. Plug in any major LLM provider and run it 24/7 on a personal computer or server, across the web and all major IM platforms.
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CowAgent is an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 47k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.
CowAgent vs. the alternatives
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| CowAgentthis listing | 47k | Python | MIT | Open source |
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| deer-flow | 83k | Python | MIT | Open source |
| anything-llm | 67k | JavaScript | MIT | Open source |
