A Dot is a persistent AI agent with a QEMU virtual machine of its own, on your own PC. Its disk, files, memory, skills and browser logins outlast every task. You talk to it from a web UI, the command line, an HTTP API or Telegram, and it runs on any model on OpenRouter, with your key.

Quickstart

You need Node 24+, Go 1.25+, Git and hardware virtualization (x86-64), plus an OpenRouter key.

Windows (PowerShell):

winget install -e --id OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS; winget install -e --id GoLang.Go; winget install -e --id Git.Git
git clone https://github.com/feder-cr/invisible_dots; cd invisible_dots
npm ci; npm run build --workspace @invisible-dots/cli
node apps/cli/dist/invisible-dots.mjs setup --all
node apps/cli/dist/invisible-dots.mjs server

Linux (Ubuntu 24.04):

curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_24.x | sudo -E bash - && sudo apt-get install -y nodejs git && sudo snap install go --classic
git clone https://github.com/feder-cr/invisible_dots && cd invisible_dots
npm ci && npm run build --workspace @invisible-dots/cli
node apps/cli/dist/invisible-dots.mjs setup --all
node apps/cli/dist/invisible-dots.mjs server

setup --all installs QEMU and turns on the accelerator (KVM, or the Windows Hypervisor Platform), then builds or downloads the Dot's images; run it again after a restart and it carries on. Then open http://127.0.0.2:3000, paste your OpenRouter key and create your first Dot. Every step and its failure modes: the guide's quickstart.

What to ask a Dot

Anything that needs a computer and a person's judgement, for as long as it takes:

Open a browser identity called research, go to https://example.com and tell me the page's title and its first sentence. Leave the browser open.

Every morning, check one-way fares from Milan to Lisbon for the next two weeks, write them to ~/workspace/fares.csv and tell me the cheapest day.

Log in to the shop with the shopping identity, download this month's invoices to ~/documents, and remember where the invoices page is for next time.

What a Dot has

A computer of its own	A hardware-accelerated VM with a Linux desktop and a persistent disk. It sleeps when idle and wakes for the next message, task or automation.
A browser that is not blocked	invisible_playwright_mcp: Firefox patched in C++, the fingerprint set inside the engine. Each identity keeps its own cookies and logins.
Memory and skills	It writes its own notes and how-tos in its home folder, as Claude Code does, and reads them on the next task.
Permissions you set	Every tool belongs to a permission: allow, ask or deny. An ask waits in your Inbox, survives a restart and runs the call once.
Tasks and automations	A queue with priorities and start times, and its own recurring jobs, for which its computer is started on time.
Many ways to reach it	Web UI, command line, HTTP API with live events, Telegram, and WhatsApp as an opt-in.
Nothing lost on a crash	A restart or a kill -9 keeps every message and task you saw accepted, and a tool call cut short is never run twice.

Which one fits

	A browser API or library	A cloud sandbox for agents	invisible_dots
Where the agent's work runs	Your code drives a browser	A machine in someone's cloud	A VM on your own PC, one per agent
What stays between tasks	What your code saves	What the sandbox keeps, for its lifetime	Its disk, files, memory, skills and browser logins
The browser	Chromium, often over CDP	Whatever the sandbox ships	Firefox patched in C++, one identity per profile
Risky actions	Your code decides	Your code decides	Allow, ask or deny per permission, answered from the Inbox or a chat
What you write	Code	Code	A message or a task

Documentation

• Guide: install, the web UI, the command line, the browser, channels, configuration, updating
• Architecture: every component and why it is there
• Troubleshooting and development and tests

Related projects

The pieces of this one. A Dot's browser is invisible_playwright_mcp, on invisible_playwright and invisible_core; the engine is a fork of nanobot.

Neighbours. cua gives agents computers through its own SDK and sandboxes; E2B runs agents' code in cloud sandboxes; OpenHands is a platform for software-development agents; browser-use lets an LLM drive a Chromium browser from Python; Open Interpreter runs the code a model writes on your own machine. invisible_dots puts the agent, its computer and its browser on your PC, one VM per agent, behind permissions you set.

License

MIT, see LICENSE. Third-party components and their licenses: THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.

Disclaimer

This project is provided as-is, with no warranties. Use it at your own risk and in compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction. A Dot acts with your accounts and from your connection: respect the terms of the sites it visits and their robots.txt.

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Built by Federico Elia