Open Source AI Interaction & Interfaces Tools using GitHub Actions

A curated collection of the best free and open source chat interfaces, assistants and agents that put a usable front end on a language model, whether it runs locally or in the cloud using GitHub Actions.

OpenClaw

An open source AI assistant that runs on your own hardware and reaches you through Discord, Slack, WhatsApp and other chat channels.

Alternative to:

ChatGPT

An AI assistant that acts, not just answers

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393,232
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82,663
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17 hours ago

Hermes Agent

A self-improving agent from Nous Research that learns skills, keeps memory across sessions and reaches you on any chat platform.

Alternative to:

ChatGPT

Desktop AI agent with persistent memory across platforms

Stars
257,810

LobeChat

Open source workspace for hiring, scheduling and supervising a team of AI agents that keeps working while you are away.

Alternative to:

ChatGPT

Manage, build, and run AI agent teams around the clock

Stars
83,541

AnythingLLM

An all-in-one AI application for chatting with your own documents, running agents and serving multiple users from a private instance.

Alternative to:

ChatGPT

Chat with your documents using any LLM, fully private

Stars
67,659

Cherry Studio

A cross-platform desktop client for running many LLM providers and local models side by side, with assistants, documents and MCP support.

Alternative to:

ChatGPT

Multi-model AI desktop client with local-first privacy

Stars
53,035

LibreChat

A self-hosted chat interface that puts every model provider, agent, tool and file workflow behind one familiar conversation UI.

Alternative to:

ChatGPT

One interface for all your AI models and conversations

Stars
46,400

NanoClaw

A personal AI assistant that runs each agent in its own container and reaches you through Slack, Telegram, Discord or WhatsApp.

Alternative to:

ChatGPT

Personal AI agent for messaging apps, containerized

Stars
31,040

Jan

Desktop app for downloading and running open source LLMs locally, with optional cloud model access and an OpenAI compatible local server.

Alternative to:

ChatGPT

Run AI models locally or connect to cloud, privately

Stars
45,123

CopilotKit

SDK for developers building agent-native apps, adding chat, generative UI, shared state and human-in-the-loop across web, mobile and chat platforms.

Alternative to:

Voiceflow

Build AI copilots for your product in hours, not months

Stars
38,294

Onyx

Self-hosted AI platform that connects company data to chat, search and agents, for teams wanting an LLM interface they control.

Alternative to:

ChatGPT

Unified AI-powered enterprise search across company data

Stars
33,036

FastGPT

AI agent building platform with knowledge bases and visual workflow orchestration, for teams shipping retrieval backed assistants without writing glue code.

Alternative to:

Voiceflow

Build powerful AI knowledge bases with ease

Stars
29,927

Eigent

Desktop application that runs a customizable team of AI agents locally, aimed at people automating multi-step workflows on their own machine.

Alternative to:

OpenAI Codex

Desktop multi-agent workforce for automating real tasks

Stars
15,675

SurfSense

Open web research platform giving AI agents structured live data from social, search and commerce sources through one API.

Alternative to:

Glean

Privacy-first knowledge base with any AI model you choose

Stars
16,656

Leon

A self-hosted personal AI assistant that runs skills, tools and memory on your own machine, for people wary of cloud assistants.

Alternative to:

Amazon Alexa

Your open-source personal assistant for server automation

Stars
17,616

Inbox Zero

An AI email assistant that organizes your inbox, pre-drafts replies and unsubscribes in bulk, for anyone losing hours to email.

Alternative to:

Superhuman

AI email assistant that automates, organizes, and declutters

Stars
12,841

Typebot

A visual chatbot builder with more than 34 blocks, embeddable anywhere, for teams collecting answers in real time.

Alternative to:

Voiceflow

Create powerful chatbots without coding

Stars
10,584

Orama

A JavaScript search engine that runs wherever JavaScript does, handling full-text, vector, and hybrid queries from a schema you define.

Alternative to:

Pinecone

Full-text & vector search at the edge.

Stars
10,586

Steel

Open source browser API that runs and manages Chrome sessions for AI agents and web automation tools.

Alternative to:

Bright Data

Cloud browser sessions for AI agents and web automation

Stars
7,876

Rakazo

Self-hosted platform for persistent AI teammates with their own memory, computers and tools, reachable from web, desktop and mobile clients.

Alternative to:

Lindy

Self-hosted AI agents that do real work on your machine

Stars
6,072

5ire

A desktop AI assistant and MCP client that talks to major model providers and indexes your own documents locally.

Alternative to:

ChatGPT

Smart desktop AI assistant with powerful local knowledge features

Stars
5,374

Zola

Open-source chat front end for OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Mistral and local Ollama models, built for developers who self-host.

Alternative to:

ChatGPT

AI chat companion with versatile model support

Stars
1,537

Browser Operator

A desktop AI browser that runs multi-agent research, comparison and automation locally, using whichever model provider you configure yourself.

Alternative to:

Dia

Open-source AI browser for intelligent web automation

Stars
515

Prismical

Desktop meeting notes with transcription that runs on your own machine, for people who want a record without sending audio away.

Alternative to:

Granola

Transcribe meetings and voice notes with local AI, no bots required

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126

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Open Source AI Interaction & Interfaces Tools using GitHub Actions

A curated collection of the best free and open source chat interfaces, assistants and agents that put a usable front end on a language model, whether it runs locally or in the cloud using GitHub Actions.

OpenClaw

Hermes Agent

LobeChat

AnythingLLM

Cherry Studio

LibreChat

NanoClaw

Jan

CopilotKit

Onyx

FastGPT

Eigent

SurfSense

Leon

Inbox Zero

Typebot

Orama

Steel

Rakazo

5ire

Zola

Browser Operator

Prismical

OpenClaw

Hermes Agent

LobeChat

AnythingLLM

Cherry Studio

LibreChat

NanoClaw

Jan

CopilotKit

Onyx

FastGPT

Eigent

SurfSense

Leon

Inbox Zero

Typebot

Orama

Steel

Rakazo

5ire

Zola

Browser Operator

Prismical

Open WebUI