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Build anything locally.

Glowby helps you build production-ready software with coding agents. It is an open source coding agent workflow for real projects. It is built primarily for Glowbom projects, but the workflow can also work with other project structures.

• Make software projects and prototypes production-ready with coding agents
• Run on local projects with ChatGPT login, API keys, or OpenCode config

We believe that you should own your code and data. Every line of code Glowby generates lives on your machine, in standard project files you can open with any editor. No vendor lock-in.

Install the Glowby CLI:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/glowbom/glowby/main/scripts/install.sh | sudo sh

For Windows, we recommend using WSL and running the install command inside Ubuntu.

Then clone the repo and enter it:

git clone https://github.com/glowbom/glowby.git
cd glowby

Glowby needs these tools available on your PATH:

• Go
• Bun
• OpenCode

Run the built-in environment check and launch Glowby:

glowby doctor
glowby code

Run those commands from the Glowby repo root, where backend/ and web/ live side by side.

glowby code now hardens the local stack by default:

• Glowby services bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) instead of all interfaces
• the backend API requires a per-run bearer token
• the OpenCode bridge runs with OPENCODE_SERVER_PASSWORD

To view the generated credentials for the current session, start Glowby with glowby code --show-local-auth.

If you launch the stack manually, set equivalent env vars yourself:

export GLOWBY_BIND_HOST=127.0.0.1
export GLOWBY_SERVER_TOKEN="$(openssl rand -hex 32)"
export OPENCODE_SERVER_PASSWORD="$(openssl rand -hex 32)"

Then run the backend with those env vars, and start the web app with:

export VITE_GLOWBY_SERVER_TOKEN="$GLOWBY_SERVER_TOKEN"

1. Open http://localhost:4572
2. Load a local project
3. Choose how you want to run the agent:
   • ChatGPT login
   • API keys
   • OpenCode config
4. Start a refine run

You can build with Glowby for free. Run local AI models on your own computer or connect to free cloud models. If you want access to premium models, you can connect a paid account or your own API keys, but you do not need to.

If glowby doctor reports missing tools, install them first and confirm they are available on your PATH:

go version
bun --version
opencode --version

If any command is not found, restart your terminal first. If it still does not work, add the tool's install location to your PATH or reinstall it using the tool's recommended installer.

On macOS, a common fix is to add the tool's bin directory to your shell profile (usually ~/.zshrc) and then reload it:

# Common PATH fixes on macOS
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/go/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'export BUN_INSTALL="$HOME/.bun"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'export PATH="$BUN_INSTALL/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

# Add the directory that contains the opencode binary
echo 'export PATH="/path/to/opencode/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

source ~/.zshrc

If you use Bash instead of zsh, update ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc instead.

If you prefer to launch the stack without the CLI, run the backend and web app separately:

cd backend
go run .

The backend runs on http://localhost:4569.

cd web
bun install
bun run dev

The web app runs on http://localhost:4572.

This repo includes a ready-to-use Glowbom default project in project/.

You can use project/ as your main starting template without logging in to Glowbom.com or downloading a project export first. Just copy the folder, rename it if you want, and start customizing it locally.

The bundled project includes:

• project/prototype/ - reference design and assets
• project/apple/ - Apple app project
• project/android/ - Android app project
• project/web/ - web app project
• project/glowbom.json - project manifest

If you only need some targets, remove the platform folders you do not want:

• Delete project/apple/ if you do not need Apple platforms
• Delete project/android/ if you do not need Android
• Delete project/web/ if you do not need web
• Keep all of them if you want to build every platform in sync from one Glowbom project

• backend/ - Go backend
• project/ - bundled default Glowbom project template
• web/ - React + Vite web app
• legacy/ - older Glowby code kept for reference