OpenHuman

The age of super intelligence is here. OpenHuman is your Personal AI super intelligence. Private, Simple and extremely powerful.

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"The Tet. What a brilliant machine" — Morgan Freeman as he reminisces about alien superintelligence in the movie Oblivion

Early Beta — Under active development. Expect rough edges.

To install or get started, either download from the website over at tinyhumans.ai/openhuman or run

# For MacOS/Linux
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tinyhumansai/openhuman/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

# For Windows
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tinyhumansai/openhuman/main/scripts/install.ps1 | iex

What is OpenHuman?

OpenHuman is an open-source agentic assistant that is designed to integrate with you in your daily life. Here's what makes OpenHuman special:

• Simple, UI-first — A clean desktop experience and short onboarding paths so you can go from install to a working agent in a few clicks, without a config-first setup. You don't need a terminal to run OpenHuman.

• One subscription, many providers — You only need one account to get access to many agentic APIs (AI Models, Search, Webhooks/Tunnels and other 3rd party APIs etc..), simplifying the experience to get a powerful agent going.

• Rich Skills — Plug into Gmail, Slack, Notion, and the rest of your stack via rich, feature-backed skills. Connections are typically one click through setup wizards instead of wiring APIs by hand. Workflow data is kept on device, encrypted locally, and treated as yours: encryption and sensitive context stay on your machine. Webhooks give instant feedback into the agent when external systems or skills emit events, so the loop stays tight without constant polling.

• Local knowledge base — Built from your data and your activity. How you work across tools, sessions, and connected services—so the agent gets rich, workflow-aware context, not a one-off chat transcript. Everything is stored on your machine and compounding over time without becoming a cloud dossier. Channels, skills and ongoing conversations feed the same loop so day-to-day context does not reset every session.

• Local AI model — The Rust core exposes local AI paths (and the desktop bundle can ship local/bundled runners where applicable) for the workloads above—vision snippets, speech helpers, summarization, tooling—so sensitive steps can stay off the cloud when you choose.

• Deep desktop integrations — OpenHuman is a native desktop assistant, not a web-only chat: memory-aware keyboard autocomplete, voice (STT listening and TTS replies), screen intelligence that understands what is on screen and feeds your local context, plus windowing and OS-level permissions—so the agent meets you on the machine, not trapped in a browser tab.

Architecture: docs/ARCHITECTURE.md. Contributor orientation: CONTRIBUTING.md.

OpenHuman vs other agents

High-level comparison (products evolve—verify against each vendor). OpenHuman is built to minimize vendor sprawl, keep workflow knowledge on-device, and ship deep desktop features—not only chat.

	Claude Code/Cowork	OpenClaw	Hermes Agent	OpenHuman
Open-source: Is the codebase open to review?	🚫 Proprietary client	✅ MIT License	✅ MIT License	✅ GNU License
Simple: Is it simple to get started?	✅ Simple Desktop App + CLI	⚠️ Terminal first and often complex	⚠️ Terminal first and often complex	✅ Simple, Clean UI/UX. Get started within minutes
Cost: How expensive is to run?	⚠️ Subscription + add-on tool/API costs	⚠️ Tied to models & hosting you choose	⚠️ Tied to models & hosting you choose	✅ Cost optimized with the option to run many things locally for free
Memory & Knowledge Base (KB): Does the agent know you and your world?	✅ Built-in memory; mostly chat/session scoped	⚠️ Has a local memory but often needs plugins for richer behavior	✅ Self-learning / task loops (typical)	🚀 Local KB + Self-learning from your activity & data (GMail, Notion etc... via skills) & prompts
API spagetti: How complex is it to hook mulitple features together?	🚫 Claude bill + often extra keys for MCP/tools	🚫 BYOK / multi-vendor common	🚫 Multiple providers common	✅ One account get access to many bundled platform APIs
Extensibility: Can you add rich features into it?	✅ MCP (different model than sandboxed skills)	✅ Plugin Architecture (SKILL.md)	✅ Plugin Architecture (SKILL.md)	🚀 Rich Skills with ability to have realtime updates, local DB & more
Desktop integrations: Can it integrate into your desktop completely?	⚠️ Desktop app & access to folders	⚠️ Often lighter native surface	⚠️ Often lighter native surface	✅ STT, TTS, screen intelligence, memory-aware autocomplete and a whole lot more

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