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An open source team of AI agents, in a chat app
MausBot is a free, open source app for a team of AI agents: each bot on its own model, in group chats, handing work to each other. Mac, Windows, Ubuntu.
MausBot is a free, open source (Apache 2.0) chat app for a team of AI agents. Every contact is a bot with its own model, instructions, memory and computer. Bots share group chats, hand work to each other and report back, and run automations on a schedule. It runs on macOS, Windows and Ubuntu, on the AI accounts you already have.
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The facts
| License | Apache 2.0, on GitHub |
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| Price | Free. Model usage on your own accounts; MausBot Cloud from $15 a month keeps the team working with your computer off |
| Engines | Claude Code, Codex, Grok, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini through Antigravity, Kimi, Qwen, OpenCode, Hermes, Pi and OpenAI-compatible APIs, chosen per bot |
| Working together | Group chats of several bots; a bot hands a job to another and the result comes back to the chat that asked |
| Automations | One-time, interval or weekday schedules and webhooks, created from a sentence in the chat |
| Approvals | Set a bot to Ask for approval and its shell commands and file edits wait for Allow or Deny in the chat |
| Platforms | macOS, Windows, Ubuntu; iOS and Android companions |
How it works
- Install MausBot and sign in to one engine you already use, such as Claude Code or Codex.
- Create a bot for each job: a researcher, a writer, a reviewer. Each gets its own model, instructions and folder.
- Put bots in a group chat, or let one hand work to another: the status comes back to the chat that asked.
- Give a bot an automation in a sentence, such as "every weekday at 8, summarise my inbox". It runs on its schedule.
What to know first
- New bots start with full access. Choose Ask for approval on a bot that should wait for you before it runs commands or edits files.
- On your own computer, automations run while MausBot is open. MausBot Cloud runs them with your computer off.
- MausBot does not include AI usage: each bot runs on your own Claude, ChatGPT or Grok account, or an API key, billed by that provider.
Frequently asked questions
- Is MausBot really open source?
- Yes. The app and its local server are Apache 2.0 on GitHub. You can read, build and change them.
- Can bots on different models work together?
- Yes. One bot can run Claude Code and the next Codex or Grok, in the same group chat. A bot can hand a job to another and the result comes back to the chat that asked.
- How many bots can I have?
- As many as you like. Each one is a contact in the sidebar, with its own model, instructions, memory and computer.
- Does the team keep working when my laptop is closed?
- Not on your own computer: there, automations run while MausBot is open. On MausBot Cloud, from $15 a month, your bots live on My Cloud and keep working with your computer off.
In the docs
Read more
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- Every open source AI agent app, compared
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