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
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
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
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
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
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:
- —
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
- —
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