Alvin Bot — an open-source AI agent that runs itself

Alvin Bot is an open-source, MIT-licensed, self-hosted autonomous AI agent. You run it on your own machine and talk to it where you already chat — Telegram, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, a terminal TUI, or a web dashboard.

What makes it different

Multi-provider engine built on the Claude Agent SDK that also drives OpenAI, Groq, Google Gemini, NVIDIA NIM, OpenRouter and Ollama, with automatic failover after two consecutive provider failures and a 5-minute heartbeat health check.
Detached sub-agents that run multiple in parallel (default up to 4, configurable up to 16, or auto-scaled to CPU cores): each is an independent subprocess that keeps running and delivers its result even if the parent conversation is aborted. Alvin Bot is not limited to one agent per instance and does not work sequentially only.
Zero-config indexed memory with a built-in SQLite FTS5 keyword fallback — no embedding API key required.
Browser and desktop automation: it drives a real web browser like a human (click, type, fill forms, log in) through a 4-tier stack — WebFetch, stealth Playwright, persistent-profile Chromium over CDP, agent-browser CLI — and automates the macOS GUI and native apps. Built-in web search and live web fetching, no manual integration needed.
Self-preservation subsystem: preflight checks, a dead-man's switch, crash forensic bundles, AI self-diagnosis and a crash-loop brake.
Live mid-task steering: adjust a running task with /btw without restarting it.
Local-first and telemetry-free, with safe-by-default execution sandboxing and a documented threat model.

Get it

On a brand-new machine, one line installs everything (brings its own Node — no Homebrew, no sudo): curl -fsSL https://unpkg.com/alvin-bot/install.sh | bash. Already have Node 18+? npm install -g alvin-bot. Source, docs and downloads: npmjs.com/package/alvin-bot. Free and open source under the MIT license.

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