Christopher introduces OpenAgents as a composable general agent, demonstrates its shared knowledge, Coder, plugin, evaluation, and payment capabilities, and previews the version 1.0 rollout.
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[00:00] Hey, I never see your agents at the gym, the OpenAgents Gym. Do your agents even lift, bro? Okay, here's OpenAgents. Listen. 288 videos and almost three years later, we can finally define what OpenAgents is. It's a composable general agent.
[00:30] So here's OpenAgents right now. If you go to OpenAgents.com, or use our terminal app, desktop or mobile app, and chat with OpenAgents, this is what you're chatting with. If you ask it about the knowledge base, we've got our whole knowledge base loaded in here. If you ask it to interact with your repos, it'll load the Coder agent. Here's the tools it has; here's the subagents it can delegate to. This is all going to be added to, first by us and then by you. Eval system. We adapted this from Claude Code, where you can define plugins and have Claude help you create evals. We love that. Yoink. We have that all in our system now.
[01:00] We got other stuff here too: policy, making, small talk, general. And here's a little bit of why this is especially cool. We've done versions of this, or tried large versions of this, in the past. But number one, the models generally are good enough, plus the type-safe System One makes this way more feasible. So here's an example of chat messages and how they're mapped to the routes, you know, easily matched through Jev. Do it with Codex. What's new in the Gym? There's so much you can hook into this. Our whole CLI, just like everything, everything, everything behind this single agent, accessible through anything. Whoa, send a thousand sats.
[01:30] Opening your wallet. Show the Test-Time Capabilities deck. So this is a deck. Let's give an example of what happens if you ask it to do something it doesn't yet have: “Turn my meeting notes into Linear tickets.” “Oh, we can't do that yet. Do you want to build it as a plugin?” Yes. “Well, what should it do? What shouldn't it do?” One ticket per action. Okay, we drafted some tests. Evals: does this look good? Looks good. Run it. Testing it out.
[02:00] If it's good, it gets added to the registry, and then all OpenAgents will have your plugin. If it has your plugin, ooh, what are these little dots going back and forth? Are those Bitcoin? Lightning micropayments, where you get paid for all paid usage of plugins that you create. Yeah.
[02:30] Now you can envision also, given that all of this is run on open protocols, it's fully extensible, it's all open source. Hey, there might be little other projects that adapt it and adopt it, like little other universes all going, and we're all speaking the same open data protocol. No blockchain garbage, just data, signed JSON over WebSockets. Very easy.
[03:00] This says October 2029 now. I think it'll be way, way, way, way bigger by that point. But you get the point. This is an extensible, open ecosystem that's going to result for the user—it should result for the user—in very simple interfaces. Like, you go to OpenAgents.com, you load the OpenAgents mobile app, you use a partner app consuming the OpenAgents API, or their self-hosted version of this API, or a subset of it they care about.
[03:30] But you're tapping into not a bunch of siloed vertical agents; you're tapping into one OpenAgents ecosystem that has all of the best plugins with reputation, identity, and payments all figured out. We won't bore you with all the details, but you can read in the two essays in our docs/essays folder of our monorepo why it now makes sense for general agents to come back.
[04:00] You heard it here first. No one else has said this. We're saying this. General agents are now possible and feasible. OpenAgents is gonna be the best one. And introducing test-time capabilities contra test-time compute. So these two things make this possible. We're gonna be rolling out release candidates of version 1.0 over the next couple of days. The ones that are alive now are gonna be at OpenAgents.com/download. We'll do a few days of bug bashing, and we should get stable version 1.0s across Windows, Mac, and Linux, iOS and Android, web and terminal, all next week. Thanks so much, and see you soon.