HAL 9000 is a revolutionary cross-platform, open-source multimodal AI agent designed to enhance your computing experience by integrating advanced AI capabilities directly on your machine. This innovative tool sees through your webcam, hears your voice, thinks using multiple LLMs like GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, and Ollama, speaks with a cloned voice, and acts using 40 OS-level tools. HAL 9000 operates seamlessly on macOS, Windows, and Linux, offering a co-work platform for Claude Code, and is free to use with zero API keys required.

Key Features

• Webcam Vision: Real-time analysis with HUD overlay, allowing HAL to observe and interpret your environment.
• Voice Interaction: Click-to-speak microphone with live waveform visualization, browser-native recording, and Whisper transcription.
• Advanced Thinking: Utilizes a multi-provider LLM with real-time token streaming, supporting parallel tool execution.
• Speech Synthesis: HAL speaks as it thinks using chunked sentence-level TTS with engines like Edge TTS and ElevenLabs.
• Action Capabilities: Execute shell commands, file operations, app control, web searches, and more with 40 integrated tools.
• Privacy Focused: No data is recorded, stored, or sent. Webcam and voice features can be toggled off, ensuring complete privacy.

Open Source and Free

HAL 9000 is fully open source under the MIT license, allowing users to fork, extend, and customize the tool to fit their needs. The free mode offers local AI capabilities with Ollama and faster-whisper, ensuring zero cost and zero API keys. For those seeking premium features, a pro version is available, unlocking additional functionalities like unlimited memory, semantic search, and custom voice cloning.