gptme
gptme is a personal AI assistant that runs in your terminal, with tools to use the shell, run code, edit files, browse the web and use vision. The README describes it as a great coding agent that is general-purpose enough to help with other tasks, and as an unconstrained local alternative to ChatGPT with Code Interpreter and Cursor Agent: not limited by missing software, internet access, timeouts or, with local models, privacy concerns.
Features listed include code execution with shell and Python tools, incremental edits with a patch tool, web browsing through Playwright, vision for images and screenshots, self-correction because tool output is fed back to the assistant, a lessons system that injects contextual guidance when relevant, several LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, or local llama.cpp), a web UI and REST API server, a computer-use tool for GUI applications, support for long-running persistent agents through an agent template, and smaller niceties such as piping context through stdin, pre-commit integration and local text-to-speech. The README notes its demos are from 2023 and out of date. GitHub shows no licence.
Features
Why choose it
Trade-offs
Maintenance check
- Last commit
- 2026-10-26
- Commits, last 90 days
- 100+
- Releases, last 90 days
- 25
- Latest release
- v0.35.2.dev20261022 (2026-10-22)
- Open issues
- 20
- Recent issues with at least one comment
- 5/6
Oldest week on the left; the latest four weeks are orange. Source: GitHub commit activity.
Status rule: archived on GitHub = Archived; last commit within 90 days = Active; 91 to 365 days = Slowing; older = Stale. All figures come from the GitHub API on the date shown.
Most discussed open issues
- #4504 Context discovery silently drops Git-quoted tracked filenames2 comments · 2026-10-26
- #4490 Thinking tags inside a save block silently prevent tool execution1 comments · 2026-10-24
- #4407 Track: unify ai-review artifact schema with core ReviewArtifact1 comments · 2026-10-17
- #4458 Linux AppImage updater downloads a deleted release asset (v0.35.1 feed returns 404)0 comments · 2026-10-20
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