Agency – Unifying human, AI, and other computing systems, in Python
Hello hackernews! I'm excited to share a new open source python library I just released for creating AI agent-integrated systems. The name is `agency`. It differs from other agent libraries, most importantly in that it's intended to address a distinct part of the overall problem, that of agent integration. It is not an agent toolchain like LangChain and others. `agency` is a framework intended for safely integrating agents with computing systems and humans in a way that all parties can easily understand and communicate with each other. I've spent a lot of time on the readme which contains a…
Agency – Unifying human, AI, and other computing systems, in Python launched on June 14, 2023 with 106 votes, #497 of 4,655 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Agency is an open source Python library for integrating AI agents, human users, and computing systems so they can safely communicate and understand each other. Unlike agent toolkits such as LangChain, Agency focuses specifically on the integration layer rather than agent creation. It provides a framework for managing access control and interactions between multiple agent types, operating systems, and web applications where users can participate as individual agents.
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A fast and minimal framework for building agentic systems - operand/agency
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hello hackernews! I'm excited to share a new open source python library I just released for creating AI agent-integrated systems. The name is `agency`. It differs from other agent libraries, most importantly in that it's intended to address a distinct part of the overall problem, that of agent integration. It is not…
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