Open Interpreter

Open Interpreter

Open Interpreter is a general code-execution host that runs Python, shell, and JavaScript on your machine. It runs as a process in its own Daintree terminal panel with full PTY emulation, like every other built-in agent.

Install & Authenticate

pipx install open-interpreter
# or: uv tool install open-interpreter / pip install open-interpreter

pipx install open-interpreter
# or: uv tool install open-interpreter / pip install open-interpreter

pipx install open-interpreter
# or: uv tool install open-interpreter / pip install open-interpreter

Requires Python 3.10 or newer. Authentication reads from OPENAI_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, or GOOGLE_API_KEY, or from a profile config at ~/.config/open-interpreter/profiles/default.yaml (Linux), ~/Library/Application Support/open-interpreter/profiles/default.yaml (macOS), or the equivalent AppData path on Windows. Run interpreter once with no key set and it prompts you for one.

Resuming Sessions

Open Interpreter's resume is rolling, and in its case that means Daintree passes no flag at all: resuming relaunches the bare interpreter command and whatever conversation history Open Interpreter carries in its own profile is what you get back. Practically, there is nothing to choose from — no session list, no ID, no way to reopen a specific earlier conversation, and no clean-shutdown requirement either, because nothing is captured on exit. Daintree sends Ctrl+D to close a session.

The panel itself is preserved independently: scrollback is serialized to disk and replayed on restart, so the transcript of the previous run is still readable even when the agent doesn't restore it. See Session Management.

Launch flags, custom presets and display titles are covered in Agent Presets. What the working, waiting and exited badges on a running agent mean is covered in Agent States.