Does artemis use paid AI services?

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

Is artemis still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change 1 months ago.

New, little track record. 17k stars, 3 months old, by an organization. Look at the code and the owner before running it.

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How to set up artemis (google/artemis) · gitmanual

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google/artemis

ARTEMIS turns natural-language instructions into reliable Android automation. It automates end-to-end workflows, captures logs, and integrates seamlessly with AI coding assistants such as Antigravity, Codex, and Claude Code. It also achieves 99%+ success rate on AndroidWorld Benchmark.

Python#ai-agents#android#google#test-automation

Difficulty: Moderate
Time: about 15 min
Stars: ★ 16,866
Activity: Updated 1 months ago
License: Apache-2.0
Open issues: 186
Got it running: Be the first
Looked up: 3 h ago

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Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (Apache-2.0).
Paid AI services?: Can use Google Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic or xAIIts settings have keys for these paid APIs. Its README says whether one is required.
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change 1 months ago.
Can I trust it?: New, little track record17k stars, 3 months old, by an organization. Look at the code and the owner before running it.

Start here

Launch script in the repo

The maintainers included start.sh. Run it from the cloned folder after reading it.

bash start.sh

Also: scripts/install_deps.sh, start.bat, scripts/install_deps.ps1

Will it work on my device?

Yes, as a library on macOS

It's a library: you add it to your own project (uv add "artemis-client @ git+https://github.com/google/artemis.git#subdirectory=packages/artemis-client"), there's no app to open.

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Use it in your own project

This is a library: you add it to your code rather than opening an app.

Add to your Python project

uv add "artemis-client @ git+https://github.com/google/artemis.git#subdirectory=packages/artemis-client"

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

Did you get it running?

No reports for macOS yet.

Still stuck? Ask an AI

Opens a chat with this manual already filled in, for macOS. It uses your own account; gitmanual sends nothing.

Ask Claude Ask ChatGPT

Parts list

1×Python >=3.12runtime
1×uv package manager

13× settings in .env

GEMINI_API_KEYsecret
GOOGLE_API_KEYsecret
OPENAI_API_KEYsecret
ANTHROPIC_API_KEYsecret
OPEN_ROUTER_API_KEYsecret
XAI_API_KEYsecret
OCR_API_KEYsecretoptional
ADB_HOSToptional
ADB_PORToptional
ARTEMIS_KEEP_DEVICE_AWAKEoptional
ARTEMIS_HIERARCHY_BACKENDoptional
ARTEMIS_HELPER_AUTO_INSTALLoptional
ARTEMIS_DEFAULT_PROFILE

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Good to know

Dockerfile available (base image: node:22-bookworm-slim).
Makefile has a make install target — it may automate most of these steps.
Nested projects: apps/showcase_ui/package.json, packages/artemis-client/pyproject.toml, playground/backend_manager/requirements.txt

Files we read (8)

.env.example

.github/workflows/ci.yml

CONTRIBUTING.md

Dockerfile

Makefile

README.md

pyproject.toml

setup.py

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