Message Orbit from Discord or iMessage. It runs on your hardware with full shell, files, web, and screen access — and reports back when the work is done. Owner-locked. Private. Yours.
Orbit lives on your hardware. You message it from Discord or iMessage. It gets the work done and reports back.
Full shell, files, web browsing, and screen control. Not a sandboxed API call — actual execution on your machine.
Only your Discord ID can command it. Nothing leaves hardware you own. Secrets stored in an encrypted vault.
Claude subscription, an API key, or free local via Ollama. You choose what you pay — including nothing.
One synced brain across all your machines. Switch between Mac and Windows with a chat command. Move files both ways.
Structured recall plus Helm Mind — an AI-first second brain over a synced Markdown knowledge base that rewrites itself as you talk.
Thinks in the background 24/7. Nightly upgrades gated by tests — auto-reverts on failure. When it gets stuck, it queues the fix for overnight.
You message it. It acts on your machine. It reports back.
The installer sets up Node, Claude Code, and all dependencies. Then the setup wizard walks you through Discord, your model, and 24/7 mode.
npx github:GOODMAN-PRO/helm
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GOODMAN-PRO/helm/main/install.sh | sh
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GOODMAN-PRO/helm/main/install.ps1 | iex
git clone https://github.com/GOODMAN-PRO/helm.git && cd helm && npm install
OpenClaw is the closest peer in the local AI agent space. Here's where Orbit's approach diverges.
| Capability | Orbit | OpenClaw |
|---|---|---|
| Runs on your own hardware | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open / self-hosted | ✓ MIT | ✓ |
| Chat from Discord / iMessage | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free / local models (Ollama) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Persistent memory + synced brain | ✓ Helm Mind | ~ |
| Multi-machine fleet (Mac + Windows) | ✓ | ~ |
| Clicks and types in any app | ✓ | ✓ |
| Thinks 24/7 and self-upgrades | ✓ nightly loop | — |
| One brain synced across fleet | ✓ | — |
Full comparison matrix (vs Hermes, Cursor, Manus, and more) at goodman-pro.github.io/helm
No vendor lock-in. No subscription to a third party. Power Orbit with whatever you already have.
Every cloud AI assistant you've used has a simple business model: gather your data, train on it, improve the product, sell it back to you. Your prompts, your files, your projects — all fuel for someone else's model.
Orbit changes this. It runs on hardware you own, uses a model you choose, and never sends your context to a server you don't control. Your data stays yours.