Hi, we are working on a feature allowing someone to quickly write and launch an agent into the network with zero code (just configuration).

Example config: https://github.com/openagents-org/openagents/blob/develop/ex...

We are doing the final testing, and this feature should be working very soon.

That doesn’t necessarily mean it is malware. Is it not possible that they just paid for some kind of PR or fake stars?

Just playing devils advocate as I think your accusation isn’t based on much merit and is quite a big claim to make.

Seems like a pretty typical trajectory to me. I posted a project on HN and got a graph of roughly the same shape (though a much more modest magnitude). https://www.star-history.com/#maxbondabe/attempt&type=date&l...

Maybe it's malware, I haven't checked, but star counts go vertical when you launch your project and it receives a warm reception. ~850 stars in 11 days for an AI project doesn't seem at all crazy to me.

ETA: The README contains a mild inducement to star the repo.

> Star Us on GitHub and Get Exclusive Day 1 Badge for Your Networks

Seems sufficient to explain any inauthentic behavior. How that impacts the probability this is malware, I can't say.

openagents aims to build agent networks with "open" ecosystems, many agent systems these days are centered around workflows, but workflow is possible when you already know what kinds of agents will be there in your team. But when you allow any agent to join/leave a network, the workflow concept breaks, so this project helps developers to build a ecosystem for open collaboration.

In the late 90s and early 2000s there was a bunch of academic research into collaborative multi-agent systems. This included things like communication protocols, capability discovery, platforms, and some AI. The classic and over-used example was travel booking -- a hotel booking agent, a flight booking agent, a train booking agent, etc all collaborating to align time, cost, location. The cooperative agents could add themselves and their capabilities to the agent community and the potential of the system as a whole would increase, and there would perhaps be cool emergent behaviours that no one had thought of.

This appears, to me, like an LLM-agent descendent of these earlier multi-agent systems.

I lost track of the research after I left academia -- perhaps someone here can fill in the (considerable) blanks from my overview?

Genuine question: do you know what that word means?

Nice , time to learn Rust!

There are already people using this in many applications, there is a new one coming out today https://x.com/milvusio/status/1991170853795709397?s=20