Public record for open source AI

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Openflows documents the open source AI ecosystem as a field in motion: tools lowering barriers to inference and orchestration, models circulating as shared infrastructure, governance experiments running in public, and practitioners shaping direction through sustained work.

281English entries
243Chinese entries
27Circuits
15Practitioners

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Currents

239 entries

Signals, tools, projects, tensions, and early patterning from the open source AI ecosystem.

Circuits

27 entries

Synthesized patterns that have stabilized across multiple currents.

Practitioners

15 entries

People whose sustained practice makes the field more legible.

Latest Entries

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  • AgentScope: Production-Ready Framework for Agentic LLMs
    Current Apr 19, 2026

    AgentScope is a production-ready, easy-to-use agent framework with essential abstractions for increasingly agentic LLMs, emphasizing visibility, trust, and built-in fine-tuning support.

  • AutoSkills: One-Command AI Skill Stack Manager
    Current Apr 19, 2026

    AutoSkills by midudev is a CLI tool that installs a complete AI skill stack with a single command, streamlining the setup of open-source AI agent capabilities.

  • DeepCamera: Open-Source AI Camera Skills Platform
    Current Apr 19, 2026

    Open-source AI camera skills platform enabling local VLM video analysis and agentic surveillance workflows across home security infrastructure.

  • Feynman: Open-Source Research Agent for Scientific Literature
    Current Apr 19, 2026

    Feynman is a CLI-native, open-source AI research agent focused on scientific literature synthesis, multi-agent investigation, and code auditing, supporting both local and cloud inference backends.

  • goose: Native Open Source AI Agent for Code, Workflows, and Beyond
    Current Apr 19, 2026

    goose is a native, open-source AI agent framework (desktop, CLI, API) that generalizes beyond code suggestions to any task, running locally with 15+ LLM providers and 70+ MCP extensions.

  • Rowboat: Open-Source AI Coworker with Memory
    Current Apr 19, 2026

    Rowboat is an open-source AI coworker emphasizing persistent memory for collaborative coding, with a lightweight architecture for local and cloud execution.

  • SentrySearch: Semantic Video Search with VLMs
    Current Apr 19, 2026

    SentrySearch is a tool for performing semantic search over video archives using Gemini Embedding 2 or Qwen3-VL, enabling natural language queries of video content.

  • AutoR
    Current Apr 18, 2026

    A terminal-first research harness that structures AI agent execution into reproducible, human-approved artifacts on disk.

  • WhatCanIRun
    Current Apr 18, 2026

    A CLI and web-based tool for discovering, benchmarking, and managing open-weight language models on local hardware.

  • Filesystem-Native Agent State Infrastructure
    Circuit Apr 17, 2026

    This circuit documents the pattern where agent state is managed as persistent, versioned, hierarchical file structures rather than ephemeral vector stores or chat logs.

  • EdgeClaw
    Current Apr 17, 2026

    EdgeClaw is an OpenBMB open-source agent framework designed for edge-cloud collaborative AI workflows with cost-aware routing and privacy-preserving coordination.

  • LlamaFarm
    Current Apr 17, 2026

    LlamaFarm is an open-source platform enabling local deployment of AI models, RAG pipelines, and agent workflows with hardware-accelerated inference across desktop and edge environments.

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