🤖nanobot
Ultra-lightweight, open-source, self-hosted personal AI agent framework in Python with WebUI, tools, memory, MCP, multi-agent workflows, automation, and chat apps
⭐ Very popular: 47k stars, gaining about 322 a week
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momentum
durability
bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.
since we covered it
why it's a big deal
- You can actually read and understand the entire agent loop in an afternoon, which makes it a real starting point for research and customization rather than a black box.
- Supports the same provider ecosystem (OpenRouter, Anthropic, local models via vLLM) and channel integrations (Telegram, WhatsApp) without the infrastructure overhead.
- Docker and pip install paths mean you go from zero to working agent in about two minutes, no wizard required.
under the hood
- Pure Python with a clean separation: agent/loop.py for the core LLM↔tool cycle, agent/memory.py for persistence, agent/subagent.py for background task delegation.
- Config lives in a single ~/.nanobot/config.json - one file, no YAML hierarchy, no env var maze.
- Ships built-in tools for browser automation, file operations, and shell access, with a skills loader for extending via custom tool definitions.
our take from PR#27, 2026-02-11
star history
- PR#27 16k 2026-02-11
- now 47k + 31k since first covered
curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.
understory
Quietly building: more output than attention, for now.
- output, commits & releases
- clout, star velocity
output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →
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