Does gbrain use paid AI services?

Can use OpenAI or Anthropic. Its settings have keys for these paid APIs. Its README says whether one is required.

Is gbrain still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change yesterday. Latest release v0.60.651.0, yesterday.

Some track record. 32k stars, 7 months old. Get it from the official repo and read what it installs.

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garrytan/gbrain

Garry's Opinionated OpenClaw/Hermes Agent Brain

Node.js

Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (MIT).
Paid AI services?: Can use OpenAI or AnthropicIts settings have keys for these paid APIs. Its README says whether one is required.
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change yesterday. Latest release v0.60.651.0, yesterday.
Can I trust it?: Some track record32k stars, 7 months old. Get it from the official repo and read what it installs.

Difficulty: Moderate
Time: about 15 min
Stars: ★ 32,460
Activity: Updated this month

GitHub didn't answer, so this is the saved copy from 1 days ago

Will it work on macOS?

Yes, it installs on your macOS

A ready-made macOS download is in the latest release.

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Heads-upBuilding it yourself? It also needs PostgreSQL and 3 settings in .env.

Download for macOS

v0.60.651.0 · 11/10/2026 ↗

gbrain-darwin-arm64

binary · Apple Silicon · 192.5 MB · 3 downloads · best match

Download

Raw binary — move it onto your PATH.

curl -LO "https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain/releases/download/v0.60.651.0/gbrain-darwin-arm64"
chmod +x "gbrain-darwin-arm64"

Install with a package manager

install script

curl -sSL https://gbrainio.terminalwire.sh | bash

Pipes a remote script into your shell. Read it before running.

npm

bun install -g github:garrytan/gbrain#stable   # the gbrain CLI only; no local brain

npm

bun install -g github:garrytan/gbrain#stable

npm

npm install -g gbrain

npm

bun add -g gbrain

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

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Parts list

1×Node.js LTS (no version pinned)runtime
1×Bun runtime
1×bun package manager
1×PostgreSQL service

3× settings in .env

DATABASE_URL
OPENAI_API_KEYsecretoptional
ANTHROPIC_API_KEYsecretoptional

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Good to know

Has AGENTS.md — instructions for coding agents. You can open Claude Code (or another agent) in the cloned folder and ask it to do the setup for you.
Nested projects: admin/package.json, native/locks/package.json, recipes/agent-voice/package.json, test/fixtures/guards/check-compile-autoload.sh/bad-help/package.json and 5 more

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License: MIT
Open issues: 799
Branch: master

package.json scripts (147)

devbun run src/cli.ts
buildbun build --compile --no-compile-autoload-bunfig --outfile bin/gbrain src/cli.ts src/core/skills/resolver/hook-worker.ts
build:allbun build --compile --no-compile-autoload-bunfig --target=bun-darwin-arm64 --outfile bin/gbrain-darwin-arm64 src/cli.ts src/core/skills/resolver/hook-worker.ts && bun build --compile --no-compile-autoload-bunfig --target=bun-linux-x64 --outfile bin/gbrain-linux-x64 src/cli.ts src/core/skills/resolver/hook-worker.ts
build:admincd admin && bun run build && cd .. && bun run scripts/build-admin-embedded.ts
build:admin-embeddedbun run scripts/build-admin-embedded.ts
build:schemabun run scripts/build-schema.ts
build:schema-migrationsbun run scripts/build-schema-migrations.ts
new:migrationbun run scripts/build-schema-migrations.ts --new
build:llmsbun run scripts/build-llms.ts
wave-security-scanbash scripts/wave-security-scan.sh
audit:contributorsbun scripts/contributor-audit.ts
build:flag-registrybun run scripts/generate-flag-registry.ts
build:operation-manifestbun run scripts/build-operation-manifest.ts
weights:minebun run scripts/mine-shard-weights.ts
build:pglite-snapshotbun run scripts/build-pglite-snapshot.ts
bench:efficiencybash scripts/bench/efficiency/run-all.sh
bench:paritybash scripts/bench/contract-parity.sh
testbash scripts/run-unit-parallel.sh
test:adminplaywright test --config admin/playwright.config.ts
eval:autocutbun test test/search/autocut-eval.test.ts
test:fullbun run verify && bash scripts/run-unit-parallel.sh && bun run test:slow && (if [ -n "$DATABASE_URL" ]; then bash scripts/run-e2e.sh; else echo '[test:full] skipped E2E (no DATABASE_URL); run docker-compose -f docker-compose.ci.yml up + bun run test:e2e to include' 1>&2; fi)
verifybash scripts/run-verify-parallel.sh
check:source-config-leakbash scripts/check-source-config-leak.sh
check:no-pii-agent-voicebash scripts/check-no-pii-in-agent-voice.sh
check:synthetic-corpus-privacybash scripts/check-synthetic-corpus-privacy.sh

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.env.testing.example

.github/workflows/actionlint.yml

.github/workflows/ci-health.yml

.github/workflows/full-ci.yml

.github/workflows/harness-check.yml

.github/workflows/heavy-tests.yml

.github/workflows/test.yml

README.md

docs/INSTALL.md

package.json

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