OpenCyclone releases open-source AI agent app for stock Android
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OpenCyclone has been released as a free, open-source app that turns an existing Android phone into an AI phone: it reads app screens on a hidden display and asks for approval before any irreversible action. The code is under the Apache-2.0 licence. Running it requires Android 12 or later, a computer for a one-time setup script, and an account with a model provider; users pay only their model provider, and a local model costs nothing. Supported setups include ChatGPT sign-in, OpenRouter, a pasted key, or a local model plus tools via the Model Context Protocol. The author says it was built by one person with AI coding agents on top of an existing open-source project, that it is early software handling short single-app tasks better than long cross-app ones, and that AndroidWorld, MobileWorld and its own safety benchmark results have not yet been published.
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OpenCyclone is a free, open-source app that turns an existing Android phone into an AI phone, reading app screens on a hidden display and asking for approval before any irreversible action. It requires Android 12 or later, a one-time setup script on a computer, and a model provider account, with support for ChatGPT sign-in, OpenRouter, a pasted key, or a local model plus tools via the Model Context Protocol. The author says it was built by one person with AI coding agents on top of an existing open-source project, is early software that handles short single-app tasks better than long cross-app ones, and has not yet published AndroidWorld, MobileWorld, or its own safety benchmark results.
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