What you can do with Nosis

3 use cases

• Run a local agent in your terminal with approval controls

  Install Nosis and chat with a personal agent in the terminal, limited to one workspace folder.

  • Nosis
  • Personal productivity
  • Intermediate
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  Using the Nosis repo at https://github.com/EvannZhongg/Nosis, follow its Quick start to install the TUI, then launch `nosis` from <workspace path>. Report whether ~/.nosis/ was initialized and which permission preset the session starts with. Verify that file tools are limited to <workspace path>.

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• Manage several agent sessions in a browser GUI

  Run the GUI to keep multiple sessions, attachments, memory, and scheduled tasks in one place.

  • Nosis
  • Personal productivity
  • Intermediate
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  Using the Nosis repo at https://github.com/EvannZhongg/Nosis, start `nosis-gui` and confirm the GUI loads in a browser. Create two sessions for <task name> and report the session list and the workspace file tree. Verify that a session's history is still present after you restart `nosis-gui`.

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• Build a custom frontend on the Bridge protocol

  Drive the Nosis runtime from your own program over newline-delimited JSON on stdio.

  • Nosis
  • Personal productivity
  • Advanced
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  Using the Nosis repo at https://github.com/EvannZhongg/Nosis, read docs/bridge-protocol.md and interfaces/client/README.md, then write a minimal script that launches `nosis-bridge` for <target workspace>. Output the first event the Bridge returns and the list of message types you used. Verify that the script shuts down the Bridge process cleanly.

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How to use Nosis

1. Check you have what it needs: Python 3.11 or newer; Node.js 22 or newer; uv installed.
2. Open EvannZhongg/Nosis on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. Install Python 3.11 or newer, Node.js 22 or newer, and uv, then run git clone https://github.com/EvannZhongg/Nosis.git and cd Nosis.
4. Run npm install and then npm run build inside the Nosis folder.
5. Run uv tool install --editable ".[gui]".
6. Change into your project folder and run nosis once, then quit.

These steps come from our top use case, Run a local agent in your terminal with approval controls, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

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About this repo

• Who it is forDevelopers and power users who want a local, approval-gated personal agent that keeps sessions, memory, and schedules as files on their own machine.
• Why it is hot
• LanguagePython
• Sourcegithub.com/EvannZhongg/Nosis · Back to Hot repos

Requirements

• Python 3.11 or newer
• Node.js 22 or newer
• uv installed
• An API key for the default provider, such as OPENAI_KEY

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