Grux AI
A free, open-source AI agent that lives on your Mac
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A free, open-source AI agent that lives on your Mac
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Grux is an open-source, native macOS agent. It handles your mail, calendar, meetings and files, and runs a shell where every command is snapshotted first, so there is always an undo. Bring your own API key, or point it at a local model through Ollama and use no key at all. No Grux account, no server, no telemetry. New in 3.2: Grux Local, a model trained for Grux's work, one click at first run, sized to your Mac's memory. MIT, Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later.
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Grux AI
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Grux is an open-source, native macOS agent. It handles your mail, calendar, meetings and files, and runs a shell where every command is snapshotted first, so there is always an undo. Bring your own API key, or point it at a local model through Ollama and use no key at all. No Grux account, no server, no telemetry. New in 3.2: Grux Local, a model trained for Grux's work, one click at first run, sized to your Mac's memory. MIT, Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later.
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We first launched Grux here in August; 3.2, with Grux Local, is the version worth showing you, so we are back.
Most AI agents are a cloud service wearing a desktop app. You hand your mail, your files and your keys to someone else's server and trust it to behave. Grux is the other kind.
Grux runs on your Mac. It reads the window you are working in, handles your mail, calendar, meetings and files, and runs a shell where every command is snapshotted first, so there is always an undo. Bring your own API key, or point it at a local model through Ollama and use no key at all.
The part we care about most is that you never have to take our word for any of it:
There is no Grux server. Nothing is proxied. Your key lives in the macOS Keychain and goes only to the provider it belongs to. The one call Grux makes on its own is a once-a-day check for a new version against GitHub's public releases page, and you can turn that off.
Everything the agent reads from your disk is written to a plain-text log, including the times it refused, so you can read exactly what it touched.
It is open source and MIT. You can read every line, and the two riskiest jobs (keeping your secrets out of a prompt, and not following a hostile link) are pulled into a small Swift library you can read on its own.
The scope is honest: Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later, Ollama has to be installed for the local path (Grux links you to it, it does not install it for you), and a couple of features still need an API key. Over 4,900 tests run on the release branch, and the security library Grux is built on publishes six advisories about its own past releases instead of quietly deleting them.
Grux is a DotcomJack project, built in Detroit, shipping since 2015 across about a dozen products. Free and MIT. Tell us what breaks on your Mac: jack@dotcomjack.com