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gptme

A provider-agnostic personal AI agent for the terminal, with shell, Python, web and vision tools.

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Checked against public documentation on September 23, 2026. Suitability guidance is our editorial judgment; this is not a performance benchmark or an endorsement.

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A hackable, local-first terminal agent for coding and general knowledge work.

About gptme

gptme is a free, open-source agent that runs anywhere a terminal does, including laptops, SSH sessions, tmux, headless servers and CI. It ships with shell, Python, web browsing and vision tools, works with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, DeepSeek and OpenRouter or fully locally through llama.cpp, supports MCP and ACP, and can be used to build persistent autonomous agents. It dates from spring 2023, making it one of the first agent CLIs.

gptme is an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 4.4k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.

Install

pipx install gptme

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