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Agent Zero

1A 2personal, 3general-purpose 4autonomous 5agent 6framework

the six Ws · specification

W1 Who

Open-source project by Jan Frdel and community.

W2 What

A general-purpose agent that uses the computer as its tool.

W3 Where

Self-hosted, running tasks in a Docker container.

W4 When

When you want a hackable, general personal agent.

W5 Why

Transparent and fully customizable, not a fixed framework.

W6 With

Docker and a frontier LLM API key.

W7 Watch

Community-maintained; open-source (MIT). The agent executes code and shell commands, so run it in the provided Docker sandbox and scope credentials.

AutonomousGeneral-purposePython

for agents & scripts

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