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GuideAI-assisted · editor-reviewedUpdated 10 hours ago · 9 min read · by Sanjeet Pal Singh

Open-source AI you can actually run

Self-hostable AI projects with real traction — what they do, where they shine, and what to watch out for.

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openclaw
TypeScript
New GitPalace389K GitHub starsOtherHealth: Actively maintained

OpenClaw 🦞 — Your assistant, on your devices, in your chats OpenClaw is an AI assistant that runs on your devices and meets you in the channels you already use. It connects models, tools, messaging channels, and optional companion apps through one Gateway, for a single operator or for a team whose members trust each other: the same gateway runs as a personal assistant on one laptop or as a shared team deployment, and configuration is the only difference. The architecture case — trusted gateway, untrusted execution, deterministic policy — is in Why OpenClaw. Websi

Pros
+Proven at scale — 389K★ on GitHub
+Actively maintained
+Ships releases (latest v2026.9.2)
Watch-out
6.2K open issues to work through
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superpowers
Shell
New GitPalace282.4K GitHub starsMITHealth: Actively maintained

Superpowers Superpowers is a complete software development methodology for your coding agents, built on top of a set of composable skills and some initial instructions that make sure your agent uses them. Table of Contents — How it works — Commercial Services — Getting Started — Claude Code — Antigravity — Codex App — Codex CLI — Cursor — Devin CLI — Factory Droid — Gemini CLI — GitHub Copilot CLI — Grok Build CLI — Kimi Code — OpenCode — Pi — Hermes Agent — The Basic Workflow — Community — What's Inside — Philosophy — Contributing — Updating — License — Visual companion telemetry How it wo

Pros
+Proven at scale — 282.4K★ on GitHub
+Actively maintained
+Ships releases (latest v6.3.0)
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hermes-agent
Python
New GitPalace242.5K GitHub starsMITHealth: Actively maintained

Hermes Agent ☤ Hermes Agent Hermes Desktop The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS, a GPU cluster, or serverless infrastructure that costs nearly nothing when idle. It's not tied to your laptop — talk to it from Telegram while it works on a cloud VM. Use any model you want — Nous Portal, OpenRou

Pros
+Proven at scale — 242.5K★ on GitHub
+Actively maintained
+Ships releases (latest v2026.8.31)
Watch-out
40.4K open issues to work through
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n8n
TypeScript
New GitPalace203.6K GitHub starsOtherHealth: Actively maintained

n8n – The Platform for AI Agents and Workflow Automation Fair-code platform to build and deploy AI agents and workflows. Combine a visual canvas with custom code, run it self-hosted or in the cloud, and connect to 1500+ integrations. AI automation you can trust with real work, from prototype to production. Key Capabilities — AI-Native Automation Platform: Build and operationalize AI workflows and multi-step agents using your own data, models, and tools — Model Flexibility, No Lock-In: Connect to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or open-source models and switch providers without changing your ar

Pros
+Proven at scale — 203.6K★ on GitHub
+Actively maintained
+Ships releases (latest n8n@2.37.10)
Watch-out
1.2K open issues to work through
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AutoGPT
Python
New GitPalace187.2K GitHub starsOtherHealth: Actively maintained

AutoGPT — AI agents that finish the work Get 10 hours back every week. Describe what you want done. AutoGPT builds the agent, runs it, and reports back. Get started · Tour · Pricing · Docs · Discord · Self-host The open-source platform for AI agents AutoGPT lets you build, deploy, and run AI agents that carry out complete workflows. Describe an outcome in plain English or shape every step in the visual builder, then run the agent on demand, on a schedule, or from a trigger. 185,000+ GitHub stars. Cited by: ------ “Next frontier of promp

Pros
+Proven at scale — 187.2K★ on GitHub
+Actively maintained
+Ships releases (latest autogpt-platform-beta-v0.7.4)
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ollama
Go
New GitPalace180.3K GitHub starsMITHealth: Actively maintained

Ollama Start building with open models. Download macOS or download manually Windows or download manually Linux Manual install instructions Docker The official Ollama Docker image ollama/ollama is available on Docker Hub. Libraries — ollama-python — ollama-js Community — Discord — 𝕏 (Twitter) — Reddit Get started You'll be prompted to run a model or connect Ollama to your existing agents or applications such as Claude Code, OpenClaw, OpenCode , Codex, Copilot, and more. Coding To launch a specific integration: Supported integrations include Claude Code, Codex, C

Pros
+Proven at scale — 180.3K★ on GitHub
+Actively maintained
+Ships releases (latest v0.33.3)
Watch-out
3.9K open issues to work through

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