{"slug": "real-bot-persistent-ai-teammates-on-your-mac-local-multi-bot-mit-byo", "title": "Real Bot: persistent AI teammates on your Mac (local multi-bot · MIT · BYO)", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "**Not affiliated with xAI or Grok.**\n\nI built [Real Bot](https://github.com/Blackman99/real-bot) for **local multi-bot teammates on your Mac** — named bots with duties, groups, `@` mentions and handoffs — that stay on your machine.\n\nAlpha, macOS only. Unsigned `.dmg` from [Releases](https://github.com/Blackman99/real-bot/releases/latest).\n\nWebsite: [https://blackman99.github.io/real-bot/](https://blackman99.github.io/real-bot/)\n\nMIT licensed. Again: **not affiliated with xAI / Grok** — independent open project.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/real-bot-persistent-ai-teammates-on-your-mac-local-multi-bot-mit-byo", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/blackman99/real-bot-persistent-ai-teammates-on-your-mac-local-multi-bot-mit-byo-2p87", "published_at": "2026-09-17 03:53:56+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-17 04:23:05.212421+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Real Bot", "Blackman99", "GitHub", "xAI", "Grok", "macOS"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/real-bot-persistent-ai-teammates-on-your-mac-local-multi-bot-mit-byo", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/real-bot-persistent-ai-teammates-on-your-mac-local-multi-bot-mit-byo.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/real-bot-persistent-ai-teammates-on-your-mac-local-multi-bot-mit-byo.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/real-bot-persistent-ai-teammates-on-your-mac-local-multi-bot-mit-byo.jsonld"}}