AutoGPT is one of the original autonomous-loop AI agents. Given a high-level goal, it decomposes it into sub-tasks, plans, and executes them in a loop until completion. The project popularized the autonomous agent pattern and is widely studied as a reference implementation. Self-hosted with Docker recommended; the project documents sandboxing for safety.
Autonomy
Unbounded
Sandbox-aware
Yes
Network access
Full
Filesystem access
Restricted write
Permissions declared
Yes
Pattern
Autonomous loop
MCP servers used
Models
gpt-4ogpt-3.5-turboclaude-3-5-sonnet