py-gpt

What it is

PyGPT is an open-source desktop AI assistant for Linux, Windows and macOS. It supports models from OpenAI (GPT-6 Astra, GPT-5.6, GPT-4, etc.), Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, xAI Grok, Perplexity / Sonar, DeepSeek, plus models available through HuggingFace, LlamaIndex, OpenAI-compatible APIs, and local Ollama…

The homepage listed on the repository, pygpt.net, puts it like this: PyGPT is an open-source desktop AI assistant for Windows, Linux and macOS with agents, RAG, Python tools, MCP, vision, image/video generation and Ollama.

What the README says it does

• Desktop AI assistant for Linux, Windows and macOS, written in Python.
• Runs as a local desktop application with a ChatGPT-like conversational interface.
• Work modes include Chat, Agents, Realtime + audio, Research, Completion, Image and Video generation, Computer use, Experts, Autonomous mode, and Custom agents.
• Integrated LlamaIndex RAG for files, webpages, Google/GitHub data, media, images, conversation history, and formats such as txt, pdf, csv, html, md, docx, json, epub, xlsx, and xml.
• Built-in vector-store support with automatic file, database-context, and data embedding.

From the project’s README.

Getting started

From the README:

chmod +x ./PyGPT-X.X.X-x86_64.AppImage

Where the decision sits

py-gpt calls the hosted decision API rather than running its own weights. That keeps the project small and means its behaviour moves whenever the vendor ships a new model version. It also means an API key and a network round trip sit in the path of every decision.

Models it references: Jev, Alpha.

How active it is

Created 2023-04-09, last pushed 2026-10-06, 2,012 stars and 354 forks when we read it on 2026-11-02. Everything in this category is weeks old at most, so a stale push date means something different here than it would on a mature project. Check the repository before you depend on it.