GPT Pilot
Pioneering open-source AI dev agent, now unmaintained
Overview
GPT Pilot is an open-source AI developer that built apps step by step with human checkpoints. It's no longer actively maintained — Pythagora pivoted to Pazi in 2026, and the repo suffered a supply-chain compromise in June 2026.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
Use cases
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GPT Pilot in Southeast Asia
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Note: GPT-Pilot is an unmaintained open-source repo with a known June 2026 supply-chain compromise on record.
Hard to recommend in 2026. GPT Pilot, the open-source engine behind Pythagora's AI developer, is no longer actively maintained: its parent company pivoted to Pazi, a YC-backed platform for autonomous AI teams, and in June 2026 a compromised co-founder GitHub account was used to push a Shai-Hulud-variant credential stealer to the repo's main branch — caught and removed within days, but a serious incident for an unmaintained project people still clone and run. The underlying idea was genuinely good: an agent that scaffolds a full-stack app step by step and asks a human when it's unsure. If you want that workflow today, actively maintained agents like Claude Code, Cursor, or Goose deliver it with current models. Treat GPT Pilot as a historical reference implementation, not a tool to install.
What people say
On June 8, 2026, an attacker used a compromised co-founder's GitHub account to force-push a credential stealer — a variant of the Shai-Hulud supply-chain worm — to GPT Pilot's main branch. The payload, tucked into the telemetry code, harvested cloud keys, GitHub and npm tokens, and SSH keys; it was publicly reported within days and scrubbed by June 11, with the ruff linter improbably credited for blunting its spread. For a repo with 33,000+ stars that people still clone and run locally, that's about as bad as a week gets.
The incident matters because nobody's really home. Pythagora, the YC startup behind GPT Pilot, has pivoted: pythagora.ai now fronts Pazi, a platform for building and managing an AI team, and the GPT Pilot repository is explicitly no longer actively maintained. The VS Code extension and Pro subscription that once wrapped the engine were left behind along with it.
Which is a shame, because the idea aged well. GPT Pilot's 2023 pitch — an agent that builds a full-stack app step by step, runs and debugs its own code, and stops to ask a human when it's unsure — is essentially the workflow every 2026 coding agent converged on. It was a legitimate pioneer, and on clean greenfield CRUD apps it could genuinely scaffold something working. But with development stopped, models frozen in an old integration, and a fresh security incident on the record, there's no case for installing it today. Study the codebase if agent architecture interests you; build with something maintained.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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