Building an Indian Privacy-First Autonomous AI CLI Agent with Background Automation (SamarthyaBot)

Bishnu Prasad Sahu — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:19:20 +0000

When I started building SamarthyaBot, I wasn’t interested in making another website. Websites are easy. What fascinated me was something harder — building a real autonomous AI system that can act, not just respond.

SamarthyaBot is a privacy-first, local AI CLI agent designed to execute real OS-level actions with background automation, encrypted memory, and dynamic plugins.

This isn’t a chatbot wrapper.
It’s an AI operator.

What Makes It Different?

Most AI tools:

Run in the cloud
Only generate text
Have limited real-world execution

SamarthyaBot can:

Execute terminal commands (with permission control)
Read/write local files
Schedule background tasks (cron-style AI engine)
Send emails
Generate UPI deep-links
Take system screenshots
Run Telegram-controlled automation remotely
Load external plugins dynamically
Encrypt sensitive memory using AES-256
Switch between multiple LLM providers (Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, Groq, Ollama)

It runs even when I’m not actively using it.

🔄 Background Autonomous Engine

You can tell it:

“Check my server every 30 minutes and notify me if it goes down.”
And it will silently monitor in the background and only alert you when needed.

No babysitting required.
It feels like having a remote AI employee.

🔌 Plugin-Based Architecture

SamarthyaBot supports dynamic plugin loading.
Any developer can drop a JS file into the plugins folder, and the system auto-loads it at startup.

This turns the agent into a platform — not just a tool.

🔐 Privacy & Security First

Sensitive data like API keys, passwords, or bank details are:

Automatically masked before LLM processing
Encrypted using AES-256-CBC
Stored securely in MongoDB

High-risk actions require explicit user permission (Ask / Always / Never model).

📲 Remote Control via Telegram

One of my favorite features:

I can message the bot on Telegram from anywhere, and even if my laptop is miles away, it can:

Manage files
Run commands
Monitor systems
Execute background tasks
Send alerts

It feels like having a remote AI employee.

Github: https://github.com/mebishnusahu0595/SamarthyaBot
Npm : https://www.npmjs.com/package/samarthya-bot

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Building an Indian Privacy-First Autonomous AI CLI Agent with Background Automation (SamarthyaBot)