GawkBot is an open-source alternative to cloud agent bots such as xAI’s Grok Bot: always-on AI bots that run on your own machine, with your own keys, and a human approval gate on everything they send. Hosted on GitHub with about 1,500 stars and actively developed in 2026, it turns the coding agents you already use into a managed team of tireless digital workers.
The idea is simple: describe a manual workflow in one sentence — or demonstrate it once — and GawkBot builds a bot that runs it, complete with its own screen, schedule, and tools, packaged as a small microapp you can manage. It works across more than 1,200 integrations. If you already run Claude Code, Codex, or Opencode, GawkBot finds those agents, adopts them, and hands coordination to a “Chief of Staff” agent that manages the fleet. When any bot needs your input, a small character pops out of your Mac’s camera notch; you can answer with one keystroke, talk back with your voice, or reply from your iPhone. Every external action — a send, a commit, a purchase, a delete — waits for your click first.
GawkBot is free — no account, no seats, no usage fees — and its source is public under the Sustainable Use License. You bring your own agent subscriptions or API keys and your own machine, which is where the bots run.
Developers and power users who already pay for a coding agent and want it doing recurring, menial work around the clock — inbox triage, reports, data chores — without handing their accounts to a closed cloud service.