{"repo":"pompeii-labs/nero-oss","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/pompeii-labs/nero-oss","clone":"git clone https://github.com/pompeii-labs/nero-oss.git","description":"The first AI agent with *agency*","language":"TypeScript","stars":43,"topics":["ai-assistant","llm","mcp","open-source","self-hosted","typescript"],"license":"MIT","category":"ai-agents","readme_excerpt":"Nero A self-hosted AI companion that lives on your hardware. --- Nero is a single-user AI companion you run yourself. No account, no cloud tenant, no per-seat billing. It runs as a small stack on a machine you own (a Mac Mini, a home server, a spare box) and you reach it from the web, your phone, and voice. One agent, one memory, one presence, across every surface. It is closer to Jarvis than to a chatbot: something that is around , that you talk to by voice or text, that can act on the world, work on things in the background, and show up on whatever screen you are near. Quick start The installer drops the nero binary in your PATH . nero start pulls the images, provisions TLS, and brings the stack up at http://localhost (and https://localhost for voice). Put your OPENROUTER API KEY in /.nero/.env so Nero can think, then nero restart . Update anytime with nero update . Needs Docker. That is the only host dependency. Why Most \"AI agents\" are a chat box in front of someone else's server. Nero is the opposite bet: - You own it. It runs on your hardware, against your files, with your keys. Your conversations and memory live in a local database you can back up and move. Nothing is someone else's tenant. - It is one being, not one interface. The same agent, memory, and context are shared across voice, text, and every display you put it on. There is no separate app per surface. You talk to Nero; the surface is just where you happened to be. - It is present. Nero is a single orb that ","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/pompeii-labs","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/pompeii-labs/nero-oss/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}