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    "why": "It takes Grok Bot's idea that several agents belong in a messaging app rather than one assistant box, and rebuilds it open and local-first on the CLIs you already have. Each bot keeps its own personality, model, computer and connected apps, and each channel its own working folder; shell commands and file edits appear as Allow/Deny cards in the chat, and transcripts and keys stay in ~/.openmausbot. Releases ship a signed and notarized macOS .dmg, a Windows x64 installer and an Ubuntu 24.04 .deb.",
    "take": "It treats several agents as a team chat rather than one assistant, and does it on your own machine without a new cloud account.",
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        "text": "pnpm dev:server    # harness server → 127.0.0.1:8799"
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        "text": "# Packaged: .dmg / OpenMausBot-setup.exe / .deb from GitHub Releases, or npm install -g openmausbot then openmausbot"
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      "Licence Apache-2.0, except the enterprise/ folder, which is source-available under its own licence (delete it for the pure open-source edition). The app is free, but bots use the claude, codex or grok CLI subscriptions you are already signed into; running from source needs Node 24+ and pnpm.",
      "macOS (Apple silicon and Intel) ships a signed and notarized .dmg, the Windows x64 installer is not yet code-signed so SmartScreen warns, and Ubuntu 24.04 is beta (bot control of the local computer is disabled on Wayland).",
      "Cloud computers (Box, paid after trial), connected apps (Composio) and voice (ElevenLabs) are optional third-party services; the README calls the project 'early but real'."
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    "This file was produced by the same build, from the same data, as the tesign.com item page. The text is editorial; the numbers are stored observations.",
    "null in the JSON means not observed — never zero. The Markdown writes [unconfirmed] for it.",
    "Star total = the value last checked on GitHub (stars_checked_at) + increases observed via GH Archive since. The 24h · 7d · 30d gains are GH Archive hourly events summed to the reference time (as_of). No score of ours.",
    "Reconstructed from archive data, not a live discovery.",
    "A summary, not legal advice."
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