Why I built this: I wanted a personal agent that actually does things - book the table, buy the ticket, watch for the drop - without handing a company my passwords, my inbox, and my card. Every hosted option asks for exactly that. Nell inverts it: self-hosted, your keys stay on your machine, and anything that spends money, sends a message, or touches a credential waits for your explicit yes. That gate is enforced in code, not by hoping the model behaves. License: source-available (FSL). Free forever to self-host at any scale, every version converts to Apache-2.0 two years after release. The one restriction is reselling it as a competing hosted service. Repo: https://github.com/iabdulwasey/Nell If you self-host it, the most useful thing you can send back is where it breaks. Open an issue with the ugliest failure you can produce - that list is the roadmap to stable.

Nell (Open Source Instinct)

A personal AI agent you text to get things done

A personal AI agent you text to get things done