Say, you want to spawn your own AutoGPT and you get the error Warning: The file 'AutoGpt.json' does not exist. Local memory would not be saved to a file
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[ec2-user@ip-172-31-19-40 Auto-GPT]$ python3 -m autogpt
Warning: The file 'AutoGpt.json' does not exist. Local memory would not be saved to a file.
Welcome to Auto-GPT! Enter the name of your AI and its role below. Entering nothing will load defaults.
Name your AI: For example, 'Entrepreneur-GPT'
AI Name:
This one will be fixed easily.
Hit CTRL+C
to close the AutoGPT program. Then run the following command in your Linux shell to create the file AutoGpt.json
in your local environment.
echo "" > AutoGpt.json
If you’re using Windows, you can simply open your editor and store an empty file as AutoGPT.json
.
Finally, run AutoGPT again by typing python -m autogpt
or python3 -m autogpt
. VoilΓ .
The error will now have disappeared! πΌβ₯οΈ

If you still get the error, try running the following command to figure out more information in AutoGPT debugging mode:
python -m autogpt --debug
You may also want to check out the following interesting tutorial:
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