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Real Bot: persistent AI teammates on your Mac (local multi-bot · MIT · BYO)

A developer released Real Bot, an MIT-licensed, macOS-only alpha tool that runs persistent, locally hosted AI teammates with named bots, assigned duties, group chats, @ mentions and handoffs. The unsigned .dmg build is distributed via GitHub Releases, and the project states it is not affiliated with xAI or Grok.

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Not affiliated with xAI or Grok.

I built Real Bot for local multi-bot teammates on your Mac — named bots with duties, groups, @ mentions and handoffs — that stay on your machine.

Alpha, macOS only. Unsigned `.dmg` from [Releases](https://github.com/Blackman99/real-bot/releases/latest).

Website: [https://blackman99.github.io/real-bot/](https://blackman99.github.io/real-bot/)

MIT licensed. Again: not affiliated with xAI / Grok — independent open project.

source & further reading
dev.to — original article Hermes Agent Use Cases: 5 Free Things You Can Set Up Today (2026) How to Set Up an Agent Operating System in 2026: The Open-Source Stack That Unifies Chat, Voice, Tasks, and Memory Choosing a Multimodal AI API in 2026: Match the Platform to the Workload
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