mikehostetler

Wrote a guide just for you! ;-)

https://jido.run/docs/getting-started/new-to-elixir

Not sure if this will surprise you - but I 100% agree with this. I went through the journey that many others did - implementing the loop, then trying to make it useful, realizing the limitations, etc.

I came to similar conclusions - what does valuable agentic software look like? It's not OpenClaw (yet)

The game theory then, in my opinion, is to focus on the knowable frontier - implement tools we can trust - and continue working and sharing that work.

I am holding onto the optimistic case - valuable use cases beyond coding agents will emerge.

Thank you!!!

I don't have a good answer - I've seen a lot of agent deployments but the space is evolving quickly and it's difficult to meaningfully discuss patterns.

This will be solved - and I hope that Jido can be a meaningful participant in that wider conversation.

Lots of output validation support!

Actions can enforce an output schema: https://hexdocs.pm/jido_action/schemas-validation.html#outpu...

Agents can as well - but it can be implemented a few different ways.

My strongest opinion with Jido is that agents must be architecturally correct WITHOUT LLM's before they can be correct WITH LLM's

Jido core has zero LLM support for this reason.

There's nearing 40+ years of "Agent" research in CompSci, LLM's came along and we threw out all of it. I didn't like that so I spent time researching this history to do my best at considering it with Jido.

That said, I love LLM's - but they belong in the Jido AI package.

Yep - BEAM has great support for audio workloads - would love to chat

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There’s a growing community showcase and I have a list of private/commercial references as well depending on your goals

Amazing!

The original version where I laid down the overall patterns was all hand coded. This was mid 2024.

I used Claude to learn & refine the patterns, but it couldn’t write this level of OTP code at that time.

As models got better, I used them to find bugs and simplify - but the bones are roughly the same from that original design.

It’s great to see OpenAI embracing Elixir - symphony is a direct implementation of the types of things Jido can do!

Thanks!!!

The core of Jido will run on a Raspberry Pi - we've even had people look at running Agents inside the BEAM where the BEAM is deployed on bare metal (embedded)

The future is going to be wild

See my other comment, but Jido 1.0 used (Elixir) Langchain

As LLM API's evolved, I needed more and built ReqLLM which is now embedded deeply into Jido.

Awesome!!! Gave you a star ...

Seems so, to my eternal shame ...

Fantastic!!! Appreciate any feedback

Yay!!!

Thank you!

Agree on operational boundaries - it took a long time to land where we did with the 2.0 release

Too much to say about this in a comment, but take a look at the "Concepts: Executor" section - it digs into the model here

This is now my personal shame for the next two weeks ... good problems, but ya - wow - I was unprepared

<3

Thank you! Fixing ...

Jido originally used Langchain for LLM calls - but it wasn't a fit so I built an entire LLM client package to work with Jido called ReqLLM

https://hex.pm/packages/req_llm

ReqLLM is baked into the heart of Jido now - we don't support anything else

By using Signals and Plugins, all data between agents can be encrypted. I've seen a Jido implementation doing this already.

It's use-case specific though - security is a much bigger topic then just "agents in containers"

The point of Jido isn't to solve this directly - it's to give you the tools to solve it for your needs.

I'll put something together!

We have a full dashboard called `jido_studio` that will be available soon that helps visualize it.

Teaser screenshot is here: https://x.com/mikehostetler/status/2025970863237972319

Agents, when wrapped with an AgentRuntime, are typically a single GenServer process. There are some exceptions if you need a larger topology.

This doesn't look like it was written by a human

AGI?

nice, private or OSS? Elixir needs a better notification engine badly

really cool project! well done

This is the type of comment that keeps me coming back to HN

Well done sir