Posted by mikehostetler 7 hours ago
I'm the author of an Elixir Agent Framework called Jido. We reached our 2.0 release this week, shipping a production-hardened framework to build, manage and run Agents on the BEAM.
Jido now supports a host of Agentic features, including:
- Tool Calling and Agent Skills - Comprehensive multi-agent support across distributed BEAM processes with Supervision - Multiple reasoning strategies including ReAct, Chain of Thought, Tree of Thought, and more - Advanced workflow capabilities - Durability through a robust Storage and Persistence layer - Agentic Memory - MCP and Sensors to interface with external services - Deep observability and debugging capabilities, including full stack OTel
I know Agent Frameworks can be considered a bit stale, but there hasn't been a major release of a framework on the BEAM. With a growing realization that the architecture of the BEAM is a good match for Agentic workloads, the time was right to make the announcement.
My background is enterprise engineering, distributed systems and Open Source. We've got a strong and growing community of builders committed to the Jido ecosystem. We're looking forward to what gets built on top of Jido!
Come build agents with us!
Edit: for those not familiar with the BEAM ecosystem, observer shows all the running Erlang 'processes' (internal to the VM). Here are some examples screenshots on one of the first Google hits I found:
https://fly.io/docs/elixir/advanced-guides/connect-observer-...
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.
I was curious about the actual BEAM processes though, that you see via the observer application in Erlang/Elixir.
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.
(Probably complimentary but wanted to check)
https://hex.pm/packages/req_llm
ReqLLM is baked into the heart of Jido now - we don't support anything else
This agentic framework can co-exist with LangChain if that's what you're wondering.
As LLM API's evolved, I needed more and built ReqLLM which is now embedded deeply into Jido.
Sidian Sidekicks, Obsidian vault reviewer agents.
I think Jido will be prefect for us and will help us organize and streamline not just our agent interactions but make them more clear, what is happening and which agent is doing what.
And on top of that, I get excuse to include Elixir in this project.
Thanks for shipping.
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