🐷 Pigbot — Personal AI Assistant

Pigbot is a personal AI assistant you run on your own devices.
It answers you on the channels you already use (WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Google Chat, Signal, iMessage, Microsoft Teams, etc.), plus extension channels like BlueBubbles, Matrix, Zalo, and Zalo Personal. It can speak and listen on macOS/iOS/Android, and can render a live Canvas you control. The Gateway is just the control plane — the product is the assistant.

If you want a personal, single-user assistant that feels local, fast, and always-on, this is it.

Models (selection + auth)

- Models config + CLI
- Auth profile rotation (OAuth vs API keys) + fallbacks

Install (recommended)

Runtime: Node ≥22.

``bash
npm install -g pigbot@latest


or: pnpm add -g pigbot@latest

pigbot onboard --install-daemon
`

The wizard installs the Gateway daemon (launchd/systemd user service) so it stays running.

Quick start (TL;DR)

Runtime: Node ≥22.

`bash
pigbot onboard --install-daemon

pigbot gateway --port 18789 --verbose

Send a message

pigbot message send --to +1234567890 --message "Hello from Pigbot"

Talk to the assistant (optionally deliver back to any connected channel: WhatsApp/Telegram/Slack/Discord/Google Chat/Signal/iMessage/BlueBubbles/Microsoft Teams/Matrix/Zalo/Zalo Personal)

pigbot agent --message "Ship checklist" --thinking high
`

From source (development)

Prefer pnpm for builds from source. Bun is optional for running TypeScript directly.

`bash
git clone https://github.com/mochiyaki/pigbot.git
cd pigbot

pnpm install
pnpm ui:build # auto-installs UI deps on first run
pnpm build

pnpm pigbot onboard --install-daemon

Dev loop (auto-reload on TS changes)


pnpm gateway:watch
`

How it works (short)

`
WhatsApp/Telegram/Slack/Discord/Signal/iMessage/GoogleChat/MicrosoftTeams...
│
▼
┌───────────────────────────────┐
│ Gateway │
│ (control plane) │
│ ws://127.0.0.1:18789 │
└──────────────┬────────────────┘
│
├─ Pi agent (RPC)
├─ CLI (pigbot …)
├─ WebChat UI
├─ macOS app
└─ iOS / Android nodes
`

Chat commands

Send these in WhatsApp/Telegram/Slack/Google Chat/Microsoft Teams/WebChat (group commands are owner-only):

- /status — compact session status (model + tokens, cost when available)
- /new or /reset — reset the session
- /compact — compact session context (summary)
- /think — off|minimal|low|medium|high|xhigh (GPT-5.2 + Codex models only)
- /verbose on|off
- /usage off|tokens|full — per-response usage footer
- /restart — restart the gateway (owner-only in groups)
- /activation mention|always — group activation toggle (groups only)

Apps (optional)

The Gateway alone delivers a great experience. All apps are optional and add extra features.

If you plan to build/run companion apps, follow the platform runbooks below.

$3

- Menu bar control for the Gateway and health.
- Voice Wake + push-to-talk overlay.
- WebChat + debug tools.
- Remote gateway control over SSH.

Note: signed builds required for macOS permissions to stick across rebuilds (see docs/mac/permissions.md).

$3

- Pairs as a node via the Bridge.
- Voice trigger forwarding + Canvas surface.
- Controlled via pigbot nodes ….

$3

- Pairs via the same Bridge + pairing flow as iOS.
- Exposes Canvas, Camera, and Screen capture commands.

Configuration

Minimal ~/.pigbot/pigbot.json (model + defaults):

`json5
{
agent: {
model: "anthropic/claude-opus-4-5"
}
}
`

Security model (important)

- Default: tools run on the host for the main session, so the agent has full access when it’s just you.
- Group/channel safety: set agents.defaults.sandbox.mode: "non-main" to run non‑main sessions (groups/channels) inside per‑session Docker sandboxes; bash then runs in Docker for those sessions.
- Sandbox defaults: allowlist bash, process, read, write, edit, sessions_list, sessions_history, sessions_send, sessions_spawn; denylist browser, canvas, nodes, cron, discord, gateway.

$3

- Link the device: pnpm pigbot channels login (stores creds in ~/.pigbot/credentials).
- Allowlist who can talk to the assistant via channels.whatsapp.allowFrom.
- If channels.whatsapp.groups is set, it becomes a group allowlist; include "*" to allow all.

$3

- Set TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN or channels.telegram.botToken (env wins).
- Optional: set channels.telegram.groups (with channels.telegram.groups."".requireMention); when set, it is a group allowlist (include "" to allow all). Also channels.telegram.allowFrom or channels.telegram.webhookUrl as needed.

`json5
{
channels: {
telegram: {
botToken: "123456:ABCDEF"
}
}
}
`

$3

- Set SLACK_BOT_TOKEN + SLACK_APP_TOKEN (or channels.slack.botToken + channels.slack.appToken).

$3

- Set DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN or channels.discord.token (env wins).
- Optional: set commands.native, commands.text, or commands.useAccessGroups, plus channels.discord.dm.allowFrom, channels.discord.guilds, or channels.discord.mediaMaxMb as needed.

`json5
{
channels: {
discord: {
token: "1234abcd"
}
}
}
`

$3

- Requires signal-cli and a channels.signal config section.

$3

- macOS only; Messages must be signed in.
- If channels.imessage.groups is set, it becomes a group allowlist; include "*" to allow all.

$3

- Configure a Teams app + Bot Framework, then add a msteams config section.
- Allowlist who can talk via msteams.allowFrom; group access via msteams.groupAllowFrom or msteams.groupPolicy: "open".

Browser control (optional):

`json5
{
browser: {
enabled: true,
controlUrl: "http://127.0.0.1:18791",
color: "#FF4500"
}
}
``

Acknowledgment

Codebase is forked from Clawdbot and/or Moltbot (MIT License)

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License