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Running Open Interpreter on Windows

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A lightweight coding agent for open models like Deepseek, Kimi, and Qwen

Open Interpreter

A coding agent for low-cost models.

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Note

This is the new Rust version of Open Interpreter. Looking for the original Python project? It lives on as a community-maintained fork at endolith/open-interpreter.

Installation

macOS and Linux:

curl -fsSL https://www.openinterpreter.com/install | sh
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Windows:

irm https://www.openinterpreter.com/install.ps1 | iex
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Then type i or interpreter in your terminal to start a session.

Harness Emulation

Open Interpreter is a fork of OpenAI's Codex, with a focus on emulating the agent harness that gets the best performance out of low-cost models.

Use /harness to switch the active harness:

> /harness

native
claude-code
claude-code-bare
kimi-cli
qwen-code
deepseek-tui
swe-agent
minimal

Read more in the harness docs and model provider docs.

Computer Use

Open Interpreter ships with a QA skill that lets any model operate and test interfaces. It can drive web apps in a real browser with agent-browser, or operate…




1. Create a virtual env

mkdir openInterpreter
cd openInterpreter
python -m venv venv openinterpreter_env
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2. Activate venv

./openinterpreter_env/Script/activate
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3. Install open-interpreter

pip install open-interpreter
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4. Run Open Interpreter

The following command is to use gpt3.5 turbo.

interpreter --fast

Welcome to Open Interpreter.

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

▌ OpenAI API key not found

To use GPT-4 (recommended) please provide an OpenAI API key.

To use Code-Llama (free but less capable) press enter.

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Pyromancer666

On Windows 10, I got step 2 to work as:

openInterpreter> \openinterpreter_env\Scripts\activate