Application
Coding
gptme
1Personal 2terminal 3AI 4assistant 5with 6tools
the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
Maintained by Erik Bjareholt and contributors under the gptme organization.
W2
What
A terminal assistant that runs shell commands, edits files, and browses to complete tasks.
W3
Where
Runs locally as a Python CLI directly on your machine's shell.
W4
When
Reach for it when you want a lightweight, scriptable local agent instead of an IDE.
W5
Why
Minimal, hackable, and provider-agnostic with direct shell and file access.
W6
With
An LLM API key (OpenAI, Anthropic, or local models) and Python.
W7
Watch
Small open-source team; executes arbitrary shell commands and edits files on the host with no sandbox by default, so review actions. MIT licensed, mature.