Agent directory

Every agent we track, profiled

Structured, per-field-verified profiles of the AI agents you can run on your own server. Agents marked are one-click installs on AgentOcean. For the full side-by-side matrix, see AI agent VPS hosting.

OpenClaw

Self-hosted personal AI assistant that acts across the messaging channels you already use (WhatsApp/Telegram/Slack/Signal) with shell, browser, file and automation tools.

License:
MIT
Self-host:
Moderate
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Hermes Agent

Self-improving open-source AI agent with persistent memory and learning loops that creates skills from experience; terminal interface plus messaging gateway (Telegram/Discord/Slack/WhatsApp/Signal).

License:
MIT
Self-host:
Easy
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Claude Code

Anthropic's agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and runs tasks, edits and git workflows via natural language. Claude models only.

License:
Proprietary
Self-host:
Easy
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Codex

OpenAI's lightweight open-source coding agent that runs in your terminal and executes code locally, using OpenAI models.

License:
Apache-2.0
Self-host:
Easy
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OpenHands

Self-hostable open-source platform that runs autonomous coding agents end-to-end across local/remote/cloud backends; web UI plus CLI, works with any LLM.

License:
MIT
Self-host:
Moderate
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LangChain

Open-source framework/SDK for building LLM applications and agents from chainable components with broad provider and tool integrations. Not an end-user CLI agent.

License:
MIT
Self-host:
Full profile

Aider

Veteran terminal-based open-source AI pair-programming tool; connects to almost any LLM and edits code directly in your local git repo.

License:
Apache-2.0
Self-host:
Easy
Full profile

Cline

Open-source agentic coding assistant for IDE and terminal that edits code, runs commands, and plans autonomously with human approval; broad model support including local.

License:
Apache-2.0
Self-host:
Easy
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goose

Open-source extensible AI agent that installs, executes, edits and tests with any LLM, rather than only suggesting code.

License:
Apache-2.0
Self-host:
Easy
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Pi

AI agent toolkit combining a unified multi-provider LLM API, an agent loop, a terminal UI library and a coding-agent CLI.

License:
MIT
Self-host:
Easy
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OpenCode

Open-source terminal-first coding agent, distributed through most major package managers, with a permission prompt before running shell commands.

License:
MIT
Self-host:
Easy
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Grok Build

Terminal coding agent harness and TUI from xAI - fullscreen and mouse-interactive, with a headless mode for scripting and CI.

License:
Apache-2.0
Self-host:
Easy
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Cursor CLI

Closed-source terminal agent from the makers of the Cursor editor, launched in January 2026 with handoff between local and cloud execution.

License:
Proprietary
Self-host:
Full profile

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