# gptme

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

## Facts
- **Category:** [Coding Agents](https://agentsearchengine.app/category/coding-agents)
- **Type:** Agent
- **Pricing:** Open source
- **GitHub stars:** 4,420
- **Language:** Python
- **License:** MIT
- **Last repo activity:** today (Sep 23, 2026)
- **Official site:** https://gptme.org/docs/
- **Source code:** https://github.com/gptme/gptme
- **Listing on Agent Search Engine:** https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/gptme
- **Data verified:** September 2026

## Best for
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.

## Install

```
pipx install gptme
```

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