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CopilotKit opens OpenMuse, a self-hosted personal agent with browser and terminal, and it has picked up 1,509 stars in eight days
CopilotKit released OpenMuse, an MIT-licensed personal-agent template with a persistent Chromium browser and a Linux terminal that a user can take over, and the repository has 1,509 stars eight days after its first commit.
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Why it mattersA team that wants to ship a Meta Muse-style agent no longer has to write the mobile app, the takeover console, the task worker and the AG-UI glue, so the build starts at the parts that make it different rather than at the plumbing.
A closed personal-agent product from Meta is not the only way to see what one looks like from the inside. CopilotKit released OpenMuse on 15 September 2026, an MIT-licensed template for a personal agent with a persistent Chromium profile, an optional Linux terminal, and a phone and web front end built on CopilotKit React Native. The repository on GitHub reports 1,509 stars and 161 forks measured on 23 September, eight days after its first commit.
The README describes OpenMuse as a personal-agent application "with an agent computer, visible work, and rich results" that runs its own server, task worker and browser worker. CopilotKit marks it as alpha and points at a verification document that lists which capabilities are working today and which still need configuration.
What the template actually gives you
CopilotKit says OpenMuse ships an agent computer that "combines persistent Chromium and an optional Linux workspace". The agent browses public pages, runs commands inside its own container, works with files, and moves PDFs between the computer and the app. The mobile and web interfaces let a user open the same browser session the agent is using and take control from it.
The feature table in the repository lists a durable task worker with pause, resume, cancel, retry and receipts, a delegated-task queue in the chat, editable memories, Google OAuth adapters for Gmail and Calendar, a document flow that fills a form from PDF and returns the filled copy for review, and a CSV-based spending summary. CopilotKit says "SQL leases recover interrupted work", and marks health, bank, social connectors, device push, voice and automatic payments as roadmap.
The dependencies that decide whether it will fit
The stack CopilotKit prescribes is Node 24 LTS, pnpm 11.19.0, and the CopilotKit AG-UI event protocol on the wire. Rich thread persistence needs a "server-only project key" from CopilotKit Intelligence, and the live Google account features need real OAuth credentials. Everything else the template runs on its own machine, under the MIT license.
Reveneau's read: a small team that wanted to build an agent with a takeover browser, a persistent shell and a mobile app was, before this week, spending most of the first sprint on the parts that never differentiate a product. OpenMuse is a working starting point where the browser, task worker, telemetry and mobile front end are already written and named. The judgment left is which of the capabilities the README lists as "verified" and which as "future work" match the product being scoped, and whether the CopilotKit and AG-UI dependencies belong in that architecture in the first place. A star count is not usage, so treat the 1,509 as public interest in the shape of the template, not a signal that anyone has yet shipped a product on it.
Source
CopilotKit, openmuse repository README, star count and repository timestamps read from the GitHub REST API on 23 September 2026.
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