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So...with all this openclaw stuff, I was wondering, what's the FOSS status for something to run locally? Can I get my own locally run agent to which I can ask to perform simple tasks (go and find this, download that, summarize an article) or things like this? I'm just kinda curious about all of this.

Thanks!

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[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

In that case I'd definitely recommend taking a look at pi, it's a fairly minimal and controllable starting point where you're in the driver's seat at all times and most "features" are opt-in and handled responsibly. And since it's extensible you can even use plugins like the ones here to do things like add more protections against undesired actions if you want and if that is too minimal and you eventually realize you want something a little bit more like OpenClaw you might want to look into Hermes-Agent, which has similar comprehensiveness to OpenClaw but seems to be a lot more responsibly designed. I don't have any personal experience with it but that seems to be what most of the "security-thoughtful AI keeners" (which I feel is a bit of a contradiction but people seem to be having some success with it) are using these days.