PockoBots v0.2

PockoBots v0.2 Beta

What's new

Every bot now gets a full browser of its own.
A bot used to reach for your phone whenever a task touched the web. Now every bot has an isolated Chromium browser with its own cookies, logins and storage, and that browser is the default way to do anything on a website — no screen takeover, no accessibility permission, no waiting on you. A bot can read a page as a structured list of buttons, links and fields, click and type by element, scroll, take an in-memory screenshot, and hand a login or a CAPTCHA back to you in the live browser view when it needs a human.

The browser has tabs.
A lookup no longer costs the page in front. A bot opens another tab, researches there, and comes back to the form it was half-way through — the tab in the back keeps running. You see the same tabs in the app: the strip under the address bar lists every tab, a tap brings one forward, the mark on the front tab closes it, and the plus sign opens another one.

Bring your own subscriptions.
Instead of a BYOK key only, you can now sign in to the vendor CLIs you already pay for — ChatGPT, Claude, OpenCode, Gemini, Grok and Cursor — and run your bots on those subscriptions. The app installs each CLI on the phone, opens that vendor's own sign-in, and keeps the credentials in the vendor's own storage; no key is ever imported or copied. The model list is asked of the CLI that owns it, so it is the vendor's own answer rather than a guess, and the screen says whether the list it shows came from the CLI or from the list the app ships. OpenCode's free models run without an account at all.

Usage limits, shown where you plan.
The plan limits your vendor reports are read from the vendor's CLI and shown above the model list — each window named the way a person would say it, such as a five-hour limit or a weekly limit, with how much of it is spent and when it refills. A provider that does not report its limits shows nothing at all, so an absent reading is never mistaken for a reading of zero.

Also in this build

Your logins stay logged in.
A session you sign into is now kept in the app's own storage, so a login does not vanish when the phone restarts. The browser remembers the site's sign-in and offers it back the next time a bot needs it.

The CLI you install is found again.
The vendor CLIs are installed into the app's own storage rather than the packaged runtime, so Install CLI does what it says and the app still sees the CLI after a restart. The old runtime images are cleared away as well, so they stop taking up the phone's storage.

The model list is the current one.
The Gemini picker carries the current Gemini models, and a field at the top of the model picker takes a model name of your own, for when a new one appears before anyone has listed it. Every other vendor's list is asked of that vendor's own CLI.

Textareas and dropdowns can be filled.
The browser's type helper writes into textareas, dropdowns and rich-text boxes, not only single-line inputs, and tells you why when it cannot — a missing option on a dropdown, or an element that is not on the page any more.

Tip

Installing the Mobile Use Edition:
Google Play Protect's Enhanced Fraud Protection automatically blocks browser sideloads declaring accessibility services. If your phone shows "Blocked to protect your device", simply open Google Play Store > tap your profile icon > Play Protect > tap Settings ⚙️ > toggle off "Scan apps with Play Protect" temporarily to install, or install via your phone's built-in Files app using "More details → Install anyway".

Warning

This is v0.2 beta — it may have issues.
PockoBots runs personal AI bots, local tooling, and agent runtimes directly on your Android phone. Depending on your device's battery optimization and Android version, background tasks may experience interruptions.

Which edition should you install?

• PockoBots Standard (pockobots-v0.2-debug.apk) — Recommended for general users:

  • Installs cleanly with zero security or fraud blocks from Google Play Protect.
  • Includes 100% of the local AI coding agent, Node.js, Python, Git, PRoot Linux runtime, floating overlay pill, Chrome previews, push notifications, priority ring alerts, and webhooks.

• PockoBots Mobile Use (pockobots-mobileuse-v0.2-debug.apk) — For power users:

  • Includes everything in Standard plus the Artemis Accessibility Service for on-screen third-party Android app automation.
  • Important Note: Google Play Protect's Enhanced Fraud Protection automatically blocks browser sideloads declaring accessibility services. If your phone shows "Blocked to protect your device", temporarily turn off "Scan apps with Play Protect" in the Google Play Store (Play Store > Profile > Play Protect > Settings ⚙️ > Toggle off) to install, or install via your phone's built-in Files app to tap "More details → Install anyway".

SHA-256 Checksums:

• pockobots-v0.2-debug.apk: f7546ba4a3afc9fed396c97a9b83880adc559ec9d5fd1e7a89d5292d8248197e
• pockobots-mobileuse-v0.2-debug.apk: 02aaf795b7ef9a9ce320e87792401aa11fcb76a63c1d8ee706c8811bef4d46ae

How to Install:

1. Download your preferred APK above directly to your Android device.
2. Tap the downloaded file. If prompted, tap Settings and enable Allow from this source to allow the installation.
3. Open PockoBots and allow 1–2 minutes on first launch for the included environment to unpack (requires 1–2 GB free storage).
4. Follow the in-app Setup checklist to enable Notifications and Display Over Other Apps.
5. Open Settings > Bring your own key to connect your OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible model, or open Settings > Bring your own subscription to sign in to a vendor CLI you already pay for.
6. Give a bot a name and instructions. It can code, browse, and work on the web on its own from there.

Upgrading from v0.1:

Install the new APK over the old one. Your projects, chats, settings and bot notes stay where they are. The first launch after the upgrade re-unpacks the runtime, which takes a minute.

PockoBots v0.1

PockoBots v0.1 Beta

Warning

This is v0.1 beta — it may have issues.
PockoBots runs personal AI bots, local tooling, and agent runtimes directly on your Android phone. Depending on your device's battery optimization and Android version, background tasks may experience interruptions.

Which edition should you install?

• PockoBots Standard (pockobots-v0.1-debug.apk) — Recommended for general users:

  • Installs cleanly with zero security or fraud blocks from Google Play Protect.
  • Includes 100% of the local AI coding agent, Node.js, Python, Git, PRoot Linux runtime, floating overlay pill, Chrome previews, push notifications, priority ring alerts, and webhooks.

• PockoBots Mobile Use (pockobots-mobileuse-v0.1-debug.apk) — For power users:

  • Includes everything in Standard plus the Artemis Accessibility Service for on-screen third-party Android app automation.
  • Important Note: Google Play Protect's Enhanced Fraud Protection automatically blocks browser sideloads declaring accessibility services. If your phone shows "Blocked to protect your device", temporarily turn off "Scan apps with Play Protect" in the Google Play Store (Play Store > Profile > Play Protect > Settings ⚙️ > Toggle off) to install, or use your phone's built-in Files app to tap "More details → Install anyway".

SHA-256 Checksums:

• pockobots-v0.1-debug.apk: 5dd6ebaf8e86d2bd264c525697e49b82ac9dbfbb136c97646b71a3034e41da02
• pockobots-mobileuse-v0.1-debug.apk: 83c6d0efb219a0d78ee3a730d3450aa50c6ba4ad347cded59d58581ac9a20977

How to Install:

1. Download your preferred APK above directly to your Android device.
2. Tap the downloaded file. If prompted, tap Settings and enable Allow from this source to allow the installation.
3. Open PockoBots and allow 1–2 minutes on first launch for the included environment to unpack (requires 1–2 GB free storage).
4. Follow the in-app Setup checklist to enable Notifications and Display Over Other Apps.
5. Open Settings > Bring your own key to connect your OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible model.

Pocket Agent 0.1.0 preview

Android preview of Pocket Agent: a local Termux coding agent powered by pi-agent-core, with streaming chat, file editing, Git/shell tools, managed npm development servers, configurable OpenAI/Anthropic connections, API tests, and Microsoft Dev Tunnels controls.

Install pocket-agent-debug.apk below, then follow the Termux setup instructions. The APK requires a running Termux backend; model requests use your configured provider. Android 8+ is required.

Backend integration tests, mobile/desktop browser flows, Android compilation, and Android lint pass in CI. The APK is signed with a development debug key. Physical Android device behavior and authenticated Dev Tunnels still need device testing.