What is GoGogot?

GoGogot is a lightweight, self-hosted AI agent written in Go (~8,800 lines) that lives on your server and communicates via Telegram. It provides 34 built-in tools including shell command execution, file operations, web search and fetching, persistent memory and skills, identity management, task scheduling, and conversation recall. The agent runs as a single ~15 MB binary using ~10 MB RAM at idle, deployed via Docker or Docker Compose. It supports Anthropic, OpenAI, and OpenRouter models with your own API keys. All data (conversations, memory, skills, identity files) stays on your mounted volumes as plain files. The agent polls Telegram for messages and makes outbound calls to LLM providers — it opens no inbound ports. Authentication is via a single Telegram owner ID. It is MIT licensed and has no paid tiers.

Should you self-host GoGogot?

GoGogot scores 42/100 on selfhost.directory (how scoring works) and ranks #79 of 120 in AI Assistant. It has 263 GitHub stars.

It shipped 11 stable releases in the past year. The latest, v0.1.1, came out on 28 October 2026. New versions land roughly every 1 days.

Setup is moderate: expect some configuration beyond a single command. An official Docker image is available. It is MIT-licensed and written mostly in Go.

Its closest alternative on selfhost.directory is hermes-agent (89/100, 257 885 stars). It scores higher overall, so compare the two before you pick. See GoGogot vs hermes-agent side by side.

Features

Context Compaction
Conversation recallUses LLM to select relevant past chats, not vector embeddings
Extensible Architecture
File operations
Identity Management
Multi-Model Support
No inbound ports
Persistent memory
Shell command execution
Skills System
Task Scheduling
Telegram Interface
Web search and fetchweb_search requires BRAVE_API_KEY