AutoGPT

AutoGPT began as the 2023 experiment that kicked off the autonomous agent wave and has since grown into a full platform for building, deploying, and running agents that break goals into subtasks and execute complete workflows. The current product spans four surfaces: AutoPilot for chat-based agent creation, a visual Build editor where drag-and-drop blocks compose workflows, an Agents dashboard for monitoring, and a Marketplace of prebuilt community agents, with runs triggered on demand, on schedules, or by events. Self-hosting is free and requires Docker, your own infrastructure, and model API keys, with install scripts for macOS, Linux, and Windows, while a managed paid cloud at platform.agpt.co bundles model access and more than 45 integrations. Licensing is split: the platform code uses Polyform Shield 1.0.0, free for personal and internal business use but not resellable as a competing hosted service, while the classic components remain MIT. At roughly 185.7k stars it is among the most-starred AI repositories on GitHub, with documentation at docs.agpt.co.