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Developer Open-Sources ‘Chat On Steroids,’ Turning ChatGPT Into a Multi-Agent Coding Workbench

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A developer publishing under the GitHub handle totec448-spec has open-sourced Chat On Steroids, a free desktop application that turns ChatGPT into a local agent workbench — adding Codex CLI-style coding tools, spawnable multi-agent "worker" chats, full computer control, and automated task loops built specifically around OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra model. Released under the MIT license, the project has drawn more than 1,500 stars and over 200 forks in the roughly two and a half weeks since it first appeared on GitHub in late August 2026.

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