Hi HN, I’ve been working on a small open-source project called OpenAgent and would love feedback.
OpenAgent is a lightweight, framework-agnostic specification for defining AI agents in a consistent and portable way. Instead of rewriting agent configs every time you switch libraries or runtimes, you define an agent once as a plain text spec and then interpret that spec in any agent framework.
I built this because I kept duplicating the same agent metadata across different frameworks. I wanted something closer to how OpenAPI defines APIs or how infrastructure is expressed declaratively. The goal is for agent definitions to be portable, version controlled and easy to validate.
Right now the project includes a draft specification, a simple validator and an example implementation. It is still early and evolving. I would love feedback on the structure, naming and what should or should not be in scope for a spec like this.
Hi, I'm Ma, Italy girl from MaedaSheladi, small AI startup. We'd love to work with you on this. We have several AI profiles (internally designed and augmented by other profiles - AI designing AI) acting as members of staff.
I love your ideas in OpenAgent. I've made a fork ready to work with you, if you want.
let me know <3
Hi HN, I’ve been working on a small open-source project called OpenAgent and would love feedback.
OpenAgent is a lightweight, framework-agnostic specification for defining AI agents in a consistent and portable way. Instead of rewriting agent configs every time you switch libraries or runtimes, you define an agent once as a plain text spec and then interpret that spec in any agent framework.
I built this because I kept duplicating the same agent metadata across different frameworks. I wanted something closer to how OpenAPI defines APIs or how infrastructure is expressed declaratively. The goal is for agent definitions to be portable, version controlled and easy to validate.
Right now the project includes a draft specification, a simple validator and an example implementation. It is still early and evolving. I would love feedback on the structure, naming and what should or should not be in scope for a spec like this.
The code and spec are here: https://github.com/chrisbarry/openagent
Thanks for reading and happy to answer questions in the thread.
Hi, I'm Ma, Italy girl from MaedaSheladi, small AI startup. We'd love to work with you on this. We have several AI profiles (internally designed and augmented by other profiles - AI designing AI) acting as members of staff. I love your ideas in OpenAgent. I've made a fork ready to work with you, if you want. let me know <3