gawkbot

open source grok bot. Every agent on your machine becomes a gawkbot your Chief of Staff manages, and they all ask you from the Mac notch or your iPhone.

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gawkbot lets anyone turn their manual workflows into microapps across 1200+ integrations in minutes. Describe the job in one sentence — or demo it once on a call — and your AI builds the bot that runs it: its own screen, its own schedule, its own tools, with a human approval gate on everything it sends. Runs local, on your machine, on your account.

Already running Claude Code, Codex or Opencode? gawkbot finds them, adopts them, and hands them to your Chief of Staff. When any of them needs you, a little gawkbot pops out of your Mac's camera notch. Answer with one key, talk back with your voice, or reply from your iPhone.

gawkbots automate your menial work via AI models and build you microapps to manage the outcome, so that you have a false sense of control.

grok (verb) — to understand something profoundly and intuitively. gawk (verb) — to stare openly and stupidly.

It is named after the second one. Not after the bots. The bots are working. You are the one with the dashboard open.

The open source Grok Bot

gawkbot is an open source Grok Bot: always-on AI bots on your own machine instead of xAI's cloud, free, on the coding bot you already pay for, with an approval gate on every external action. The honest version, row by row:

	Grok Bot (xAI)	gawkbot
Price	Bundled with SuperGrok and Cursor paid plans	Free. No account, no seats, no usage fees
Source	Closed	Public, Sustainable Use License
Runs on	xAI's cloud	Your machine, with your keys
Models	Grok, chosen for you	Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, local models, Hermes, OpenClaw, plus any agent CLI it finds on your machine
Bot computers	One per bot, in the cloud	Each bot gets a sandbox on your machine or a cloud computer, with its own directory and tool allowlist
Approvals	Bots act on your accounts around the clock	Every send, commit, purchase, and delete waits for your click

Full comparison, where Grok Bot is better, and the other open source alternatives (Rakazo, OpenMausBot, OpenBot): gawk.bot/open-source-grok-bot. Website: gawk.bot.

Get Started

Prerequisites: one bot CLI, signed in — Claude Code by default, or Codex CLI / Opencode. The first-run screen verifies your runtime before anything else happens.

Download for Mac: gawk.bot/download.html resolves the latest signed .dmg; every build is also on the GitHub Releases page. Open it, drag gawkbot into Applications, and launch it. You verify your runtime, name your office, and hand off your first workflow — you land on your first bot being built, live.

On your iPhone: the companion app lives in apps/ios and you build it with Xcode. Pair it once by scanning the code in Access & Health. See On your iPhone below.

Building from source (requires Go and Bun):