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👋 I'm AstrBot

Introduction

AstrBot is an open-source, all-in-one Agentic assistant for personal and group chats. It can be deployed across dozens of mainstream instant messaging platforms, such as QQ, Telegram, WeCom, Lark, DingTalk, and Slack. It also includes a lightweight built-in ChatUI (similar to OpenWebUI), providing reliable and extensible conversational AI infrastructure for individuals, developers, and teams. Whether you are building a personal AI companion, an intelligent customer service assistant, an automation bot, or an enterprise knowledge base, AstrBot helps you build AI applications directly inside your IM workflows.

Documentation Overview

This documentation is divided into the following sections:

• Deployment: multiple ways to quickly deploy AstrBot on local machines or cloud servers.
• Messaging Platform Integration: integration guides for 18+ mainstream instant messaging platforms.
• AI Provider Integration: connect to model providers, use AstrBot's built-in Agent Runner, or integrate third-party Agent Runner services such as Dify, Coze, Alibaba Bailian, and DeerFlow.
• Usage Guides: practical guides for features such as plugins, tool calling, knowledge base, MCP, Skills, and Agent sandbox.

Quick Start

• Deploy AstrBot: Read the Deployment Guide to quickly deploy AstrBot on your local machine or cloud server.
• Connect to IM platforms: Follow the instructions to connect AstrBot to your preferred IM platforms such as Discord, Telegram, Slack, etc.
• Configure AI models: AstrBot supports various AI models. See Connecting Model Services

Notice

1. AstrBot is a non-profit project under the AstrBotDevs organization, maintained by open-source contributors worldwide, and protected by the AGPL-v3 license. If you modify AstrBot and use it to provide commercial network services, you must open-source your modifications. For details, contact community@astrbot.app.
2. Before using this project, please read the End User License Agreement (EULA): End User License Agreement. If you do not agree to any terms of the agreement, do not use this project.