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Show HN: PipeCrab – a Rust voice agent that runs multiple tasks at once

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Post by aerxes » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 12:32 PM UTC

I built a framework for portable voice-agents in Rust. It addresses some problems that I had with other frameworks in the space (Pipecat, Livekit). Mainly, those frameworks are client-server models, where someone needs to host a python/node server, and then build a app with the client SDK.

Because Pipecrab agents are portable, they allow us to build self-standing applications.

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Re: Show HN: PipeCrab – a Rust voice agent that runs multiple tasks at once

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Post by aerxes » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 12:36 PM UTC

Next items on the roadmap:

* Ability for the dispatching agent to ask clarifying questions

* Telephony kit so your agent can make outbound calls and wait on hold

* Openrouter integration for offloading llm generation

I am aiming to build this into a more fully-featured voice assistant framework. Basically I am treating "tasks" as a first-class object and oriented mostly toward building a conversational frontend for Hermes (and potentially OpenClaw).

Re: Show HN: PipeCrab – a Rust voice agent that runs multiple tasks at once

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Post by ipotapov » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 8:25 AM UTC

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