Run an overnight agent that finds and scores sales leads each day and delivers a report to your local dashboard without manual effort.
Automatically clip a YouTube video into short vertical social media clips with captions using the built-in Clip Hand.
Set up a research agent that monitors a topic, builds a knowledge graph, and generates cited reports on a recurring schedule.
| rightnow-ai/openfang | kitao/pyxel | asciinema/asciinema | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 17,495 | 17,466 | 17,289 |
| Language | Rust | Rust | Rust |
| Setup difficulty | easy | easy | easy |
| Complexity | 3/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Audience | developer | vibe coder | developer |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Installs as a single 32MB Rust binary, individual Hands may require API keys for the LLM or external services they use.
OpenFang is described as an open-source Agent Operating System: software for running autonomous AI agents that do work for you in the background instead of waiting for you to type a prompt. It is written in Rust and ships as a single binary of roughly 32MB, so installing and starting it is a one-line command that brings up a local dashboard. The README contrasts this with chatbot frameworks and multi-agent orchestrators that require heavier setups. The core idea is what the README calls Hands. A Hand is a pre-built capability package that bundles a configuration file (HAND.toml), a multi-step system prompt, a domain skill reference, and guardrails for approval gates. Once activated, a Hand runs on a schedule and reports results back to the dashboard. Seven Hands are bundled: Clip, which turns YouTube videos into vertical short clips with captions, Lead, which finds and scores sales prospects each day, Collector, which continuously monitors a target and builds a knowledge graph, Predictor, which makes forecasts with confidence intervals and tracks its own accuracy, Researcher, which produces cited reports across multiple sources, Twitter, which manages an X account with an approval queue, and Browser, which automates web tasks via a Playwright bridge and refuses to spend money without explicit confirmation. Someone would use OpenFang if they want agents that run on their own (for example overnight) rather than a chat interface. The stated stack is Rust, MIT-licensed, and the project is still pre-1.0 with breaking changes possible between minor versions. The full README is longer than what was provided.
OpenFang is an open-source Agent Operating System written in Rust that runs autonomous AI agents on a schedule in the background, covering tasks like video clipping, lead finding, web automation, and research reports via a local dashboard.
Mainly Rust. The stack also includes Rust.
MIT license, use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.
Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.
Mainly developer.
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