⚠️ Project Update Notice

The current version of Agience is being succeeded by a new platform that represents a complete redesign and reimplementation of the core ideas.

Development has moved to a new repository that will eventually become open-source.
Once it’s public, this repository will be updated with a redirect and migration details.

For now, this project remains available for archival and reference purposes, but active development has stopped.

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Agience: AI Agents Powered by You

Agience is an open-source intelligent agent platform that enables anyone to easily build, deploy, and manage intelligent agents capable of automating tasks, processing complex information, and facilitating communication between devices and systems with scalability and reliability.

Highlights

• Distributed Architecture: Agience hosts can be deployed anywhere, ensuring data residency compliance for applications across personal, business, industrial, and enterprise levels of any size and scope.

• Modular Agents: Scalable, autonomous agents encapsulate their functions and data with the flexibility to move seamlessly between hosts.

• Agent Agnostic: Agience is designed to support any type of agent, with initial compatibility for Semantic Kernel and plans to expand to all agent frameworks.

• Open-Source: Released under the AGPL-3.0 license, Agience allows anyone to use, modify, and distribute the software. Build anything using Agience, with modifications to the framework shared for the collective benefit.

Architecture

Agience is a distributed intelligent agent platform consisting of a network of authorities that provide essential services to their respective communities. These services include identity management, message brokering, streaming, databases, and management APIs, all supporting secure, coordinated interactions across a network of hosts, agents, and topics, each governed by its respective authority.

A host, deployed on devices or systems, offers computational resources and manages the flow of information between agents and topics under the guidance of its authority. Agents, acting as digital representatives of individuals, perform tasks and exchange information through topics while respecting the boundaries established by their authority.

Each authority governs the permissions and interactions of its agents, hosts, and topics, with JWT-based authorization managed by an identity provider (IDP). Authorities can establish trusted relationships, allowing agents from different authorities to interact across boundaries when authorized. This structure ensures that agents operate securely within defined scopes and adhere to permissions across the Agience ecosystem.

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Get Started

Agience is designed to be accessible to everyone, from developers and hobbyists to businesses and enterprises. You can explore the platform through the Preview Instance or set up a Development Instance to start building and deploying agents.

Get Started

The startup guide is currently being rewritten. Stay tuned.

How to Contribute

We welcome contributes and feedback from our community! Please feel free to:

• Submit issues for suggestions, bugs, or questions.
• Create pull requests for proposed changes or improvements.
• Join discussions on Discord.
• Spread the word about Agience to help grow the community.
• Share your projects to let us know how you're using or planning to use Agience.
• Provide feedback on the platform and how we can improve it.
• Suggest features and ideas for new improvements.
• Engage with the community by joining discussions and sharing your knowledge.