pi-durable-bot (Pots)

The open-source Grok Bot alternative: an AI coworker that acts on its own.

It reads every channel, email and event you give it, decides what matters, does the work on its own computer, and speaks up when it should.

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[!TIP] Setting this up with an AI agent, such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor? Have it read docs/for-agents.md first. That page explains Pots to your agent and how to set it up. In short: the agent installs it and makes the bot, you sign in to your model (and a judge such as Jev, for group chats) with pots login, and then the bot connects Slack and your other apps itself.

Grok Bot, dots and Claude Tag showed what an AI teammate can be. pi-durable-bot gives you the same kind of coworker as open source: it runs on your machine, with the model you choose, in the places your team already talks.

Open and yours

Grok Bot, OpenAI dots, Claude Duet, Claude Tag and Meta Muse are closed products. They run on someone else's computer, with someone else's model, inside the apps they chose. pi-durable-bot is MIT-licensed and runs where you put it.

	pi-durable-bot	Grok Bot (xAI)	dots (OpenAI)	Claude Duet (Anthropic)	Claude Tag (Anthropic)	Muse (Meta)
Source code	Open, MIT	Closed	Closed	Closed	Closed	Closed
Where it runs	Your server, your VM, your office box	xAI's cloud	OpenAI's cloud	Anthropic's cloud	Anthropic's cloud	Meta's cloud
Model	Any: your subscription login, 40+ providers, or a local model	Grok	OpenAI's	Claude	Claude	Meta's
Where you talk to it	Slack, Discord, Telegram, and any channel with a Chat SDK adapter	Mac and iOS apps; Slack for team bots	ChatGPT, Slack, Teams	Its own app	Slack	Web, mobile app, WhatsApp
Your data	Stays on your machine, in each bot's folder	Sent to xAI	Sent to OpenAI	Sent to Anthropic	Sent to Anthropic	Sent to Meta
Custom work	Anything. Change the code, add tools, connect your own systems	What the vendor allows	What the vendor allows	What the vendor allows	What the vendor allows	What the vendor allows

The other products as their makers described them in public, November 2026; they may have changed since. Grok Bot, dots, Claude Duet, Claude Tag and Muse are products of xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. pi-durable-bot is not affiliated with any of them.

Any model. Log in once with a subscription you already pay for, use an API key from any of the 40+ providers pi supports, point it at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (vLLM, SGLang, a proxy), or run a local model with Ollama, LM Studio or llama.cpp. The bot uses pi's own model layer, so every model pi can use, the bot can use. With a local model for the agent and the judge, nothing leaves your machine. You are not locked to one model vendor.

Any channel. The core speaks in five plain words: channel, place, thread, message, person. Platform details stay inside one adapter per platform. Slack, Discord and Telegram work today; Teams or email is one more adapter, not a rewrite. One bot can be in many channels and stays the same person everywhere.

Your business. Give it your own tools, data and workflows. It can run several bots on one machine, each with its own name, persona, responsibilities and memory. A bot can even edit its own definition, or create a new bot.

Not a bot. A coworker.

Most AI bots are a command line with a chat bubble. You @ them, they answer, they forget. A real coworker works differently:

	A chat bot	pi-durable-bot
What it sees	The message that mentions it	Everything in the places it was invited to: chats, DMs, emails, events, pages it watches
When it acts	When you @ it	When it decides it should. It can also answer when you @ it
What it remembers	This thread, maybe	One long memory across every channel, kept on disk
How it works	Calls the tools someone wired in	Writes and runs its own code on its own computer
What happens later	Nothing	It sets its own reminders and comes back
After a crash	Starts over, or sends twice	Picks up where it stopped. Never sends the same message twice (on Telegram it can, see why)

What it does

📥 Its own inbox

Every message in every place you invite it to lands in one inbox: channel messages that never mention it, edits, deletions, reactions, people joining, and its own messages. It keeps all of it in a local SQLite log and reads that log with SQL whenever it needs context. Nothing is thrown away when a conversation gets long.

🧠 Its own judgment

It is woken in three ways, the same three ways a person notices work:

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