Open source · MIT & Apache-2.0

Run coding agents on hardware you control.

Autopilot is the agent. Hotcell is the sandbox it runs in. Our local coding model is the next layer. Source code and API keys stay on your machines.

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The Directionally Local stack, bottom to top: your hardware, operating system, Hotcell, Autopilot, local coding model
    43,500+npm installs across our packages
    400+models Autopilot can run
    2open-source products, MIT and Apache-2.0

    Source: npm registry, October 2026, including downloads under Autopilot's former package name.

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    Install in one line.

    Both products are open source. Autopilot needs Node.js 20 or later, Hotcell needs Node.js 22 or later.

    Autopilot

    Coding agent
    npm i -g autopilot-ai
    npx autopilot-ai
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    Hotcell

    Agent sandboxes
    npm i -g hotcell
    pip install hotcell
    npmPyPIGitHubhotcell.sh

    Autopilot · coding agent

    A coding agent you can point at any model, including your own.

    A terminal coding agent and programmable SDK. Run any of 400+ models through OpenRouter, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint you host.

    • Plan, edit and auto modesRead-only research, approve each change, or full autonomy.
    • Subagents in HotcellParallel investigations in isolated sandboxes.
    • Local memorySQLite and embeddings, stored on your machine.
    • Headless SDKcreateAgentSession and JSONL RPC.
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    Hotcell · agent sandboxes
    
      
    Sandboxes for AI agents, on your own hardware.
    
      
    As many isolated sandboxes as a machine can hold. Agents get short-lived tokens. Your real keys stay on the host.
    
      
      
        
    • Key-swapping gatewayMetered, spend-capped and revocable per sandbox.
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    • Containers or microVMsDocker, Firecracker, or Apple Virtualization.
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    • Admission controlLive CPU, memory and cost per sandbox. No over-subscribing.
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    • Default-deny egressKernel-enforced on Linux and microVMs.
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    How a run works
    
      
    Your API keys never enter a sandbox.
    
      
    Autopilot sends research to subagents. Each runs in its own Hotcell sandbox with a short-lived token. The gateway on your machine swaps that token for the real key on the way out.
    
      
      
        
    • Revocable per sandboxKill one token without touching the others.
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    • Metered and cappedSpend limits per sandbox and per run.
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    Research · in training
    
      
    A coding model small enough to run where your code lives.
    
      
    We are pretraining a specialized coding model for Autopilot's tool-calling loop. The goal is a model a team runs on one machine, so no source code goes to a third-party API.
    
    
    
    
    
      
    Status
    Pretraining
    
      
    Target hardware
    Laptop / 1× GPU
    
      
    Specialized for
    Agentic coding, tool calls
    
      
    Ships inside
    Autopilot + Hotcell
    
    
    
  
    

    


    
  
    
    
    
      
    Enterprise
    
      
    Deploy the whole stack inside your company.
    
      
    The core is open source. Companies that need coding agents on their own infrastructure work with us on a commercial deployment.
    
    
    
    
    
      
    
        
    Open source
    
        
    FreeMIT / Apache-2.0
    
        
    • Autopilot CLI and SDK
    • Hotcell on a single host
    • Community support on GitHub
    
      
    
      
    
        
    Directionally Local for Teams
    
        
    Early accessAnnual license
    
        
      
          
    • Hotcell fleet across many hosts, with SSO and audit logs
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    • Central key vault, team spend caps and per-user policies
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    • On-prem or private-cloud install, including air-gapped
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    • Local coding model when released
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    • Deployment support and an SLA
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    Run agents on your own infrastructure.
    
      
    Tell us about your team and where your code lives. We respond within 48 hours.