MIT License · 100% Open Source

Your own AI agent.
Free and open source.

avacli is a single native binary that gives you an autonomous coding agent with a local web UI, shell access, file tools, and xAI Grok integration. No accounts, no cloud, no vendor lock-in.

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Everything you need, nothing you don't

One binary. No daemon, no Docker, no cloud account. Install it, add your xAI key, and start building.

Local-first

Runs on your machine or VPS. Your code and API keys never leave your environment. No cloud dependency, no telemetry.

Autonomous coding agent

Reads, writes, and searches code across your entire project. Runs shell commands and plans multi-step tasks on its own.

Powered by xAI Grok

Uses Grok models via your own xAI API key. You pay xAI directly at their published rates — zero markup, zero middlemen.

Built-in web UI

Streaming chat with reasoning display, WebIDE, file browser, and settings — all served from the binary on localhost:8080.

28 agent tools

File I/O, regex search, shell execution, web & X search, image generation, persistent memory, todos, and more — across three operating modes.

VPS deployment & node mesh

Deploy and manage Vultr cloud servers directly from the UI. Connect multiple nodes into a private P2P network and control them all from one chat.

No account required

Download, install, add your xAI key, and go. Zero registration, zero data collection, zero strings attached. MIT licensed.

Deploy, connect, and orchestrate

Spin up cloud servers and link them into a private node mesh — all from the same chat interface you use for coding.

One-click VPS deployment

Pick a plan, region, and config profile — avacli provisions a Vultr instance with your agent pre-installed. Monitor balance, bandwidth, and billing in real-time.

Private node mesh

Every connected node sees every other node. Use @node mentions in chat to send commands to specific machines, or click a node to work directly in its remote UI.

Remote UI access

Open any node’s full web interface from your local browser. It’s like sitting in front of the remote machine — edit files, run the agent, manage services — without SSH.

Auto-provisioned configs

Three deploy profiles out of the box: Agent Only (minimal avacli install), Full LAMP Stack (Apache + MariaDB + PHP + Redis + avacli), or Blank server.

Running in 60 seconds

Three steps. No account creation, no onboarding wizard, no credit card.

Install

Grab a binary from the downloads page, or build from source using the docs.

Add your xAI key

Get a free API key from console.x.ai and add it in Settings once the UI is running.

Build with AI

Launch the web UI, open it in your browser, and start building with your autonomous AI agent.

Why avacli?

We believe AI tools should be free, transparent, and self-hosted. avacli gives you the full power of an autonomous agent without sending your code to a third party. You bring your own API key, you keep your data, and you run it wherever you want — laptop, desktop, or cloud VPS. Deploy nodes, link them together, and orchestrate your entire infrastructure from one chat.