#99th of 12 in Assistants
Moltis
Persistent personal agent server in one Rust binary with sandboxed execution
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- Stars
- 2.9k
- License
- MIT
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
- Last release
- Sep 2026
- Language
- Rust
Overview
Moltis is a single Rust binary that serves a web UI (port 13131), Telegram, Signal, Discord, Slack, Teams, Matrix, WhatsApp and Nostr from one gateway, and runs every command in a Docker, Podman or WASM sandbox. It keeps memory in SQLite with full-text and vector search, supports MCP (stdio and HTTP/SSE), ACP, cron, CalDAV and email, 8 TTS and 7 STT providers, and password, passkey and API-key auth.
Who it is for: Solo self-hosters wanting a hardened always-on agent on a Mac mini or Pi
Strengths
- Every command runs in a Docker, Podman, Apple Container or WASM sandbox
- Passkey (WebAuthn), password and API-key auth; vault encrypted with XChaCha20-Poly1305
- Signed releases with Sigstore attestations and GPG; verifiable with gh attestation
- Langfuse, OTLP and Prometheus instrumentation built in
Weaknesses
- Docker deployment mounts the host Docker socket into the container
- Serves HTTPS with its own certificate; browsers need TLS trust setup
- Source build needs just and Node.js for Tailwind on top of Rust 1.91+
- Constrained devices need a custom build with --no-default-features --features lightweight
What it needs
- no GPU
- Docker + Compose
- Needs Docker, Podman or Apple Container (sandbox)
- Models: OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, local models
- port 13131
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