by HKUDS
Lightweight, open-source AI agent for your tools, chats, and workflows.
# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobotLast scanned: 4/15/2026
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}nanobot is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by HKUDS. Lightweight, open-source AI agent for your tools, chats, and workflows. It has 45,230 GitHub stars.
Yes. nanobot passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.
Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobot" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).
nanobot is primarily written in Python. It is open-source under HKUDS on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.
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🐈 nanobot is an open-source, ultra-lightweight personal AI agent you can truly own. It keeps the agent core small and readable while giving you the practical pieces for real long-running work: WebUI, chat channels, tools, memory, MCP, model routing, automation, and deployment.
| You want to... | Go to |
|---|---|
| Install nanobot with no terminal/config background | Start Without Technical Background |
| Install quickly and get one CLI reply | Install and Quick Start |
| Open the bundled browser UI | WebUI |
| Connect Telegram, Discord, WeChat, Slack, Email, Mattermost, or another chat app | Chat Apps |
| Configure providers, fallback models, Langfuse, MCP, web tools, or security | Docs and Configuration |
| Understand or extend the internals | Architecture and Development |
nanobot is a self-hosted personal AI agent runtime. It can:
v0.2.2 - Durability Release
Highlights:
/dream, macOS installer fixes.For older updates, see the release archive or GitHub releases.
[!IMPORTANT] If you want the newest features and experiments, install from source.
If you want the most stable day-to-day experience, install from PyPI or with
uv.
Pick one install method:
Prerequisites: Python 3.11 or newer. Git is only needed for a source install; Node.js/Bun are only needed if you are developing the WebUI itself.
If terminals, API keys, or config files are new to you, use the guided zero-background walkthrough in Start Without Technical Background instead of this compact README path.
One-command setup
macOS / Linux:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HKUDS/nanobot/main/scripts/install.sh | sh
Windows PowerShell:
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HKUDS/nanobot/main/scripts/install.ps1 | iex
The default command installs or upgrades nanobot-ai from PyPI, then starts nanobot onboard --wizard. It avoids system-wide pip installs by using an active virtual environment, uv, pipx, or a managed venv under ~/.nanobot/venv. If Quick Start finishes, skip the manual initialize/configure steps below and go straight to Open the WebUI.
To preview the plan without changing your environment, pass --dry-run; combine it with --dev when you want to preview the main-branch install.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HKUDS/nanobot/main/scripts/install.sh | sh -s -- --dry-run
& ([scriptblock]::Create((irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HKUDS/nanobot/main/scripts/install.ps1))) --dry-run
To install the current main branch instead, pass --dev:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HKUDS/nanobot/main/scripts/install.sh | sh -s -- --dev
& ([scriptblock]::Create((irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HKUDS/nanobot/main/scripts/install.ps1))) --dev
If you prefer to inspect the script first, open scripts/install.sh or scripts/install.ps1.
Install with uv
uv tool install nanobot-ai
Install from PyPI with pip
python -m pip install nanobot-ai
If pip reports externally-managed-environment on macOS or Linux, use the one-command installer, uv tool install nanobot-ai, pipx install nanobot-ai, or install inside a virtual environment.
Install from source
git clone https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobot.git
cd nanobot
python -m pip install -e .
Verify the install:
nanobot --version
1. Initialize
Skip this step if the one-command setup already started the wizard and Quick Start finished there.
nanobot onboard
Use nanobot onboard --wizard if you prefer an interactive setup.
2. Configure (~/.nanobot/config.json)
Skip this step if you already configured provider and model settings in the wizard.
nanobot onboard creates ~/.nanobot/config.json and ~/.nanobot/workspace/. Configure these two parts in the config file. Add or merge the following blocks into the existing file instead of replacing the whole file.
The example below uses a generic OpenAI-compatible custom provider so the compact path does not recommend one hosted service. Provider examples are recipes, not rankings or