Talos releases 0.20.3 stable version
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Talos has released stable version 0.20.3, an open-source self-hosted AI agent for the terminal and Telegram, under the MIT license. This stable update includes specific Telegram improvements: native command blocks for known diagnostic parameters, files, and skill names, and distinguishing between different measured result states. Running requires Python 3.11+ on Linux or macOS, plus a model connection (your own API key, or an installed and logged-in Claude or Hermes CLI); model providers and hosting costs depend on the user's own configuration. It runs under bubblewrap on Linux and sandbox-exec on macOS respectively. Users upgrading from Beta.7 or earlier with custom pip settings need to run PIP_CONFIG_FILE=/dev/null talos update once, because the old updater still inherits pip configuration.
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- Hacker News AITalos 0.20 – A self-hosted AI agent with a permission kernel
Talos is an open-source, self-hosted AI agent for terminal and Telegram on macOS and Linux (including Raspberry Pi) that uses Ollama, the Claude Code CLI, or a configured API provider, and only executes tools after a deterministic permission kernel rules on each action, with authority bound to exact arguments as a single-use 30-second token. The 0.20.3 stable release adds native Telegram command blocks for known diagnostic arguments and separate measured result states, while retaining the frozen operator contract, permissions and dependency locks. The project states its limits plainly: shell execution requires bubblewrap or sandbox-exec and refuses to run unprotected otherwise, and it is not a multi-tenant security boundary.
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