I’m looking for something more like an traditional Free and Open Source project with an active community, different use-cases…
I tried googling it. But there’s just way to many results these days. And they’re mostly(?) cooked up by some AI agent and tend to get abandoned randomly after a few weeks. Or they have broad claims in a shiny README.md and then I install something and in reality it sucks and doesn’t even do half of it. Or they’re made by lunatics like Peter Steinberger who default to giving their agents root permissions on everything. That’s why I try to avoid that category of projects.
I know I can code everything myself with Python, but it’d be great to have some workflows and integrations laid out for me, memory, RAG, a sandboxed Linux shell, cron, webhooks… So I can just go ahead and connect it to my local LLM and use it for various things. React to my my messages, look up information, read new pull-requests from a repository or RSS feed, write something to a homepage, pipe something into TTS or Ace-Step do a radio show or whatever. Make a small group of agents or my own tools…
Idk, something roughly alike n8n just proper open-source? Is there anything out there you other people use?
I’m asking in the LocalLlama community since I try to run it locally. And I need some amount of customizability so I can create some clever workflows. Something like OpenCode also doesn’t really help if it wastes a million tokens on some mundane task and it’s not really designed to fit with my limited amount of compute resources. Or if it’s super hard to customize it to do so.
There are a few lists like this one: https://github.com/alvinreal/awesome-opensource-ai
Not sure what your needs are. There is a large variety of agentic frameworks listed. From things like LangChain to build your own to HermesAgent or Openclaw variants that are supposed to be more “secure”.
Personally I’m testing Agent Zero which runs in a docker container and is meant to be an orchestrator of multiple subagents.
Thanks. Maybe Agent Zero is a bit too close to the “usual” security model for my liking. Seems they also tell me to run it isolated and not connect it to private data and production systems… But that’s kind of what I want. I’d like it to screen my email inbox or move the remaining spam mails to the spam folder. But I thought there maybe was some sane approach where a human programmed the email adapter of it. And I can just configure the agent to stick to read permissions only, so it’d be fine.
Thanks for the other link. From reading the list, I think crewAI and smolagents are closest to what I want. I mean I don’t have an exact use case. I just figured since everyone and their grandma supposedly has AI agents these days. And AI is supposed to my life better, I’d try it. Idk. Let it sift trough my email inbox. Some online RSS feeds and the changelogs of some open-source projects I follow and alert me if there’s something interesting. Or if there’s something going on in a pull request I was part of… Maybe it can help with some other things. Or be a FAQ bot for all the knowledge I stored on my computer… Or generate a cat picture and send it to me via chat at lunchtime to brighten up my day. Connect to my Home Assistant and ping me before I leave the house if the train is delayed, it’s icy conditions on the road. That’s roughly what could be my needs.
But I want something more grounded than OpenClaw. It’s probably easy to build in some permission system and come up with separate agents for tasks, so the email agent can’t blackmail me with information from my knowledgebase, or delete the inbox. And sure I could use LangChain. That’d do it. But I’ve tried, and that’s just a lot of work. I’ll end up coding all the workflows myself. Figure out the prompts or steal them from another project. Reinvent how planning and subdividing tasks works… Copy lots of boilerplate code to start a vector database and then do RAG. Memory, skills. I’ll have to write all the email, chat, RSS, webcrawler integrations myself. A scheduler, background tasks. Then code an entire UI because what they have is more for testing and very straightforward chatbots. And it just escalates to a 100h+ Python project. For what I think must have been written several times already?!
Totally reletable, I actually want the same functions. I will stick to something more conservative at the moment to test and also because it is relevant for my work.
AgentZero has builtin connectors to Email, Telegram and WhatsApp. You can install plugins for Matrix or Discord. Not sure about the security model as I do not use these currently.
However, it also has a secrets store that replaces secrets in tool calls locally. I use it for SSH access to another machine.
The a0 connector can be used to link it to your PC locally for projects that require file acces, etc.