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Covo — AI skill for Claude Code

AI community

Open-source alternative to Claude Duet: a self-hosted autonomous AI agent that runs tasks end to end — tools, approvals, routines, background tasks, MCP, Telegram.

How to install Covo

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open hmody1m/covo and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Covo does

Open-source alternative to Claude Duet: a self-hosted autonomous AI agent that runs tasks end to end — tools, approvals, routines, background tasks, MCP, Telegram. Desktop (Electron) + Android (Capacitor) + web PWA. Claude or any OpenAI-compatible model (Ollama, LM Studio, OpenRouter). MIT. Not affiliated with Anthropic.

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README

Covo

**An open-source alternative to Claude Duet** — a self-hosted autonomous AI agent that runs things end to end, briefs you every morning, works in the background, and asks you only when it matters.

Run it on your own server, your PC or your phone. Connect it to Claude with your own API key, or to any local or OpenAI-compatible model (Ollama, LM Studio, OpenRouter). Give it tools, routines and approvals, and it does the work — drafting, researching, building pages and decks, running commands on your machine — then brings you the decisions that are actually yours.

Designed and built by **[Ethos](https://github.com/hmody1m)**.

[Download](#download) · [Features](#features) · [Quick start](#quick-start) · [Docs](#docs) · [العربية](README.ar.md)

[!IMPORTANT] Covo is an independent community project. It is **not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Anthropic**. "Claude" and "Claude Duet" are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC, mentioned only to describe what this project is and that it can use the Anthropic API **with your own API key**. Covo contains no Anthropic code or assets. See [TRADEMARKS.md](TRADEMARKS.md).

![Covo on a phone](docs/screen-mobile.png) ![Covo on a computer](docs/screen-desktop.png)

**Keywords:** self-hosted AI agent · autonomous AI agent · open-source AI assistant · AI workflow automation · LLM tool calling · approval-gated automation · background AI tasks · scheduled AI routines · MCP (Model Context Protocol) · Ollama · LM Studio · OpenRouter · OpenAI-compatible API · Anthropic Claude API · Electron desktop app · Capacitor Android app · PWA · Node.js · MIT license · alternative to Claude Duet.