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Mila — open-source digital employee in Telegram

Answers your clients, keeps your promises, remembers every conversation, and tells you every morning what’s on fire.

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Terminal
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shakhruz/mila-agent/main/install/get.sh | bash

Quick start in the READMEMila is part of something bigger — read our Manifesto

You install Claude Code and sign in yourself, only on Anthropic’s page; Mila never stores your login. Customers and guests are served through an API key (OpenRouter).

Install

Run Mila on your own machine

Install with one command

≈ 5 minutes. You need: Claude Code (with a Claude subscription), Bun, a Telegram bot token from @BotFather.

Terminal
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shakhruz/mila-agent/main/install/get.sh | bash

Then mila onboard — three steps: bot token, Claude sign-in, pairing with your Telegram. Details in the README.

Questions and ideas — in GitHub Discussions.

Repository on GitHubstars: 0

Claude — by Anthropic’s rules

  • Mila runs on the ordinary, unmodified Claude Code, installed as Anthropic publishes it.
  • You sign in yourself, only on Anthropic’s page, with your own Claude plan or your own Anthropic API key. Mila never copies or stores your login or token.
  • Your plan is for your own use. Customers and guests who write to your bot are served through an API key (OpenRouter), billed to the key’s owner.
  • A partner who sets Mila up for you does not run you on the partner’s subscription, does not resell your Claude usage and does not collect logins.

Source: Claude Code — legal and compliance

Claude and Claude Code are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC. Mila is an independent open-source project, not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Anthropic.

Digital employee

Why a digital employee, not another universal agent

Universal agents can do anything — if you know exactly how to ask. Business owners don’t have that time.

You talk to her from your phone, by text or voice — like to a person on your team.

Mila comes with a job:

  • client chats
  • a card for every chat
  • promises and tasks
  • decision cards for the owner
  • a weekly rhythm: plan in the morning, results in the evening
  • mailings
  • spending limits
Open source

Why open source

01

Your Mila belongs to you, 100%.

Instructions, skills, memory, settings — one mila export archive, back on any machine with mila restore. No lock-in.

02

Trust needs daylight.

A digital employee talks to your clients. You should be able to read every rule she follows — the constitution, the send-guard, the skills.

03

Better skills, faster.

Every business teaches its Mila something. Open skills let that knowledge travel: one good skill, thousands of Milas.

04

Apache-2.0

Fork it, change it, ship it.

What’s new · Mila 1.6 (28.10.2026)

  • Takes the initiative.

    Mila doesn’t wait for instructions: she brings a solution with options and writes “if you don’t mind — I’ll do it this way”.

  • Always ready.

    Before every event she checks what’s missing.

  • Stylish.

    Before showing a deck or a page — a style council of three views.

  • Task juggler and look-back.

    She keeps the flow of requests and remembers what was forgotten by herself.

  • Clear updates.

    A plan before each update, a “did it get better?” check after 3–7 days, rollback with one button.

Code and the full changelog — github.com/shakhruz/mila-agent (v1.6.5).

Docs

One feature per page, with links to the code.

TELEGRAMMila in TelegramYour DM, groups in three modes, forum topics, buttons, voice notes, files.Read →DECISIONSDecision cardsOptions and her pick ★, buttons that work once, the choice stays in the chat history.Read →SPENDINGSpending and limitsAn estimate before every paid generation, a threshold and a monthly cap, what is left of the subscription, the exact return time at a limit.Read →PROMISESPromises and tasksA promise is a record with a deadline, “done” only with evidence, deadlines due today shown on every turn.Read →MEMORYMemory that learns from remarksA card for every chat, the owner’s tastes, a third remark becomes a rule, a memory audit.Read →LANGUAGESRussian, Uzbek, EnglishReplies in the other person’s language, three languages per chat, its own time zone and quiet hours, Uzbek voice and Cyrillic.Read →EXPORTYour Mila is yoursOne archive without passwords or keys, a sha256 manifest, a restore that never overwrites.Read →UPDATESUpdates — only when you decideA new version comes as a card and installs by your button, backup first; your files and memory are never touched.Read →CLIENT SECRETSClient secrets: every message is checkedBefore sending, a guard checks the recipient and the text: another chat’s business, keys and card numbers stay.Read →YOUR OWN SERVERYour own server: isolation and install in a dayOne script: a separate user without a password, token and journal at 600, a dry run first.Read →A TEAM OF MILASA team of Milas: they hear each other without burning the subscriptionOnly your own bots, by @name or reply, at most 20 messages an hour from one bot.Read →GUEST PATHGuest path: a trial offer by the third reply at the latestThe guest’s language, the invoice as a card, a soft no to anything illegal — and an exam that checks it after every edit.Read →CONSTITUTIONMila’s 10 laws and the code that holds themA guard before every message, evidence before “done”, spending above the threshold only by your tap. Where there is no code, the page says so.Read →WEEK RHYTHMA plan on Monday, plan-vs-fact on FridayA plan with each member of the team on Monday, the week in one slideshow post on Friday. Numbers only from files; no file — “no data”.Read →WEBMASTERThe client’s site: previews by Mila, production on the client’s wordMila builds the client’s site in her container, a server service deploys it. After the deploy, a check by numbers: 200, 360 px, forms.Read →MEDIAVideo, a podcast, infographics and flashcards from your materialFive skills: a video overview, live frames, an infographic, a mini-podcast, a flashcard deck. Facts only from the source, files as the output.Read →IMPORTMoving from OpenClaw or HermesMemory, persona and skills of your previous agent — without keys. Connected one piece at a time, together with the owner.Read →INSTALLInstall from a release, not from mainThe installer and its checksum from the latest release — check before running. How a version is released and how the install link is checked.Read →
Comparison

How Mila compares

Mila, OpenClaw, NanoClaw and Hermes Agent compared, as of 17 Oct 2026
CriterionMilaOpenClawNanoClawHermes Agent
Calls itself“An open-source digital employee for your business”“The AI that really does things”“An AI assistant that runs agents securely in their own containers”; a lightweight alternative to OpenClaw“The agent that grows with you”
Built byMILAGPTOpenClaw Foundation (Steinberger; sponsored by OpenAI)NanoCo (Gavriel Cohen)Nous Research
LicenseApache-2.0MITMITMIT
GitHub stars (17 Oct 2026)—~392k~31k~255k
CodePython, shell; Telegram plugin in TypeScript (Bun)TypeScriptTypeScriptPython
EngineClaude Code with your own Claude subscriptionown agent loop, models as pluginsClaude Agent SDK (Claude Code), other models via skillsown agent loop, any model
Telegramyes — she lives thereyesyes (via a skill)yes
Other channelsTelegram in depth instead of twenty channels on the surface; the current release v1.5.2 also has outbound email (skills/mail-outbound): a letter starts as a draft and goes out after a tap in Telegram. Social posts via Zernio with your own key. Voice through Alice and the TV screen run on Milas we host; they are not in the open codeWhatsApp, Slack, Discord, Teams, iMessage, Signal and 20+ moreWhatsApp, Slack, Discord, Teams, iMessage, Matrix, email and moreDiscord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Email, CLI
Isolationevery Mila is a separate Linux user: secrets readable only by her (0600); the installer opens no ports. Milas we host each run in their own container: that is our hosting (rootless podman, a separate uid per Mila), and its code is not in the open repository. Deploy and payment keys stay on the host; each Mila sees only her own bot token. Risky shell commands are denied by policy; a broken policy means “ask”, never “allow”sandbox off by default; tools run on the hosta container per agent group; keys via a gateway7 runtimes (local, Docker, SSH, Modal…)
Outbound checkevery message is checked before it leaves: wrong recipient, keys and tokens, another client’s name or chat title, server paths; if the check fails, nothing is sent. Live on Milas we host; being added to the self-host installerno datano datano data
Memoryremembers every conversationMarkdown: MEMORY.md, daily notes, “dreaming”CLAUDE.md and memory per groupmanages its own memory; FTS5, Honcho
Skillsopen skills; most are in Russian today, English is the first goalClawHub/add-* skillswrites its own skills; agentskills.io
Installone curl command (get.sh) — or one chat with Mila Tashkentone curl commandclone and a script; needs Dockerone curl command
Built forbusiness: a digital employee with a jobpersonal; can be shared by a teampersonal; NanoCo enterprise editionpersonal; Hermes for Businesses
Priceself-host free; a ready Mila — priced at the reviewfree; no hosted servicefree; enterprise on requestfree; Nous Portal $0–200/month, Hermes Cloud
Human decisionsdecision cards: options and her pick ★, a button works once, the choice stays in the chat historyexec ask; Team preset (send, purchase, delete)enterprise: approval workflows, auditno data
Spending limitforecast first, then the actual amount next to it; above the threshold — a cardno datano dataper-employee limit (Business)
Multiple agentsa team of Milas: they hear each other by @name; a loop guard lets through at most 20 messages an hour from one botrouting, sub-agents, new agent after approvalseveral isolated agents; “teammates” in Slacksub-agents
Promises and tasksevery promise is a record with a deadline; promises due today show up on every turn; “done” closes only with proof: a link, a file, a tool replyno datano datano data
Languagesanswers in the guest’s language: Russian, Uzbek, English; transcribes Uzbek voice notes; Uzbek Latin → Cyrillicno datano datano data
Valuesa constitution of 10 laws, read first; the secrecy law and the “no excuses” law are also enforced by the outbound checkno datano datano data
Restartsmessages wait in a journal while the session restarts; nothing is lost, reminders come back toono datano datano data
Updatesupdates with rollback: a nightly check, a backup before every install, automatic rollback if something breaksno datano datano data
Exportmila export / mila restore: one archive with a sha256 manifest, no secrets inside — if it finds one, the export stopsno datano datano data
Setup helpMila Tashkent starts your Mila in one chat; or a paid month with our team: server, security, your data — then your team runs it on its ownno hosted serviceenterprise on requestHermes Cloud (one-click hosting)

Swipe the table sideways

Data as of 17 Oct 2026. Stars and licenses: GitHub API, 17 Oct 2026. “No data” means we found no public source.

  1. Mila: github.com/shakhruz/mila-agent (README, docs/REFERENCE.md, skills/)
  2. OpenClaw: github.com/openclaw/openclaw · docs.openclaw.ai/tools/exec · docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/memory · docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/multi-agent · Wikipedia
  3. NanoClaw: github.com/nanocoai/nanoclaw · The Register · Help Net Security · Unite.AI
  4. Hermes Agent: github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent · Nous Portal prices (third-party site, 23 Sep 2026) · Hermes for Businesses
Safety

Safe by default

  • The send-guard blocks a message that would leak one conversation into another; if the guard fails, nothing is sent. Today the guard runs on Milas hosted by MILAGPT; it is being added to the self-host installer.
  • Before paid work — a forecast; afterwards, the actual amount next to it.
How to start

Three ways to start

1

Talk to Mila Tashkent

In Telegram — she starts your own Mila in one conversation.

pricing — worked out at the review

Get your Mila in one chat
2

Self-host

One curl command, then mila onboard. Free.

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Team

Who builds Mila

Shakhruz Ashot Ashirov — founder of MILAGPT30 years in commercial software, 40 years of programming Disney · Apple · AT&T
Shakhruz Ashot Ashirov founder of MILAGPT and AshotAI · 30 years in commercial software, 40 years of programming; worked with Disney, Apple, AT&T
Farangiz Sharapova — co-founder of MILAGPTSkyline Yoga
Farangiz Sharapova co-founder of MILAGPT · founder of Skyline Yoga

And a fleet of Milas working next to us every day — development, quality, content, clients.

This repository is the core they run on.

For developers

Developers, join the team

We are looking for people who build agents and want them to do real work for real businesses.

  • Write a skilla sales script, a booking flow, a report — and send a pull request.
  • Translate a skill to your languagemost are in Russian today — English is our first goal.
  • Break things and tell usevery issue is read by a person and by Mila Quality.

Good contributors join the core team of MILAGPT.

Read CONTRIBUTING.md Open an issue Write to the team · [email protected]

Mila is open source under Apache-2.0. “Mila”, “MILAGPT” and the logo are trademarks of MILAGPT.

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