# Rome

Rome is a self-hosted agentic operating system where human and agent collaborate over time, agents build their own harnesses and workflows under guidance, and proven capabilities carry forward into later sessions, offered as an open-source alternative to Grok Bot and Meta's Muse.

Rome is described as a guardrailed environment for persistent agents, in which agents design their own standard operating procedures and orchestrate workflows under a human's ongoing direction, and capabilities that work are kept rather than rebuilt in every conversation. It supports persistent agents, scheduled tasks and custom apps, positioning itself as an open-source alternative to Grok Bot and Meta's Muse.

It can run through a hosted preview called Rome Cloud, or self-hosted with a single script that checks for Docker, pulls the published image and starts Rome, bound to the local machine by default until a user explicitly opens it up. State is kept in named Docker volumes so re-running the startup script upgrades the container without losing data, and telemetry export is off unless a user explicitly configures an OpenTelemetry endpoint.

Running it from source requires Node.js 24 or later, Corepack, pnpm and Docker Compose, and it is written in TypeScript.

Website: https://romeos.cc