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Hexbot
Nightly early access

Your team of agents
works, remembers,
and communicates.

Hexbot bots have faces, names, and their own models. They use real tools, keep a memory of your work, and talk with you and each other in rooms, all on your own Mac or Linux machine.

Download nightly for MacSee how it works

Free and open source. Nightly builds only for now. GitHub

A Hexbot room called Studio. Ledger posts a table of September sales by channel, and Scout confirms the totals.
A real room from a nightly build, working on a made-up ceramics studio's files. Ledger read two spreadsheets and totalled September, Juniper wrote the newsletter line, and Scout rechecked the sums.

The next step after the assistant.

  1. BeforeChatbotsAnswer one question at a time, then forget you.
  2. ThenAgentsUse tools and remember you. One agent, one chat.
  3. NowHexbotA crew of agents with names, faces, and memory, working with you and with each other.

Memory that lasts

Every conversation stays until you archive it. Each bot has a soul, its own memory and a searchable history, and one About you text tells all your bots who you are. Overnight, bots dream over the day and keep what mattered.

Rooms for people and bots

Put several bots and several people in one chat. Mention a bot to bring it in, or pick a main bot that answers when nobody is named. Bots can message each other, and you can watch the whole exchange.

Runs where you say

The daemon lives on one machine and keeps working when the app is closed. Pair a phone or a second laptop with a short code on your network, over Tailscale, or through Hex Connect when you are away.

From hello to a working crew.

How it works, step by step
  1. The Hexbot bot builder with a blue round face named Scout.
    1

    Give it a face and a name

    Pick a shape, a colour, a role, and the model it runs on.

  2. Ledger asking what it should mainly be used for, with four suggested answers.
    2

    It interviews you

    A new bot asks a few questions, then writes its own soul and memory from your answers.

  3. Scout's memory settings showing its notes and the daily dreaming schedule.
    3

    It remembers

    Each bot keeps notes you can read and edit, and tidies them every night.

Real tools, on your own computer.

Every tool and connector

On your computer

  • Terminal
  • Files
  • Code execution
  • Browser
  • Computer use
  • Vision

Working together

  • Rooms
  • Message other bots
  • Delegate
  • Scheduling
  • Clarifying questions
  • To-do lists

Memory and self

  • Memory
  • Soul
  • About you
  • Search past chats
  • Skills
  • Dreaming

Connectors

  • Web search
  • Cloud browser
  • Image generation
  • Video generation
  • Voice
  • Notion

Your data stays on your hardware.

Conversations, memory, files, and provider keys live in ~/.hexbot on the machine running the daemon. Bring your own API key or a subscription you already pay for, from more than 50 model providers.

  • ApprovalsBots work inside a sandboxed workspace. Anything outside it, from internet access to a file change elsewhere, waits for you.
  • Devices you can revokeEvery paired phone and laptop appears in settings with a revoke button.
  • Delete means deleteRemoving a conversation removes its history for good.
  • Connect stays out of the wayHex Connect brokers your identity and a hostname. Chat traffic never passes through it.
  • Open sourceAGPL-3.0. Read it, fork it, run it yourself.

Join the nightly early access.

For now Hexbot ships only as nightly builds: a new one each day the code changes, and your copy updates itself. Expect rough edges, and tell us what breaks.

Download nightly for Mac
More options

Hexbot for Mac

Apple Silicon or Intel. Updates itself.

Apple Silicon (.dmg)Intel (.dmg)GitHub

Hexbot for Linux

An AppImage for any distribution, or a deb for Debian and Ubuntu. Updates itself.

AppImagedeb packageGitHub

Hexbot Client

Just the app, for a second computer that connects to the one running your bots.

Mac, Apple Silicon (.dmg)Mac, Intel (.dmg)Linux, AppImageLinux, deb packageGitHub

Earlier nightly builds