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Show HN: Nous – Open-Source Agent Framework with Autonomous, SWE Agents, WebUI

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Re: Show HN: Nous – Open-Source Agent Framework with Autonomous, SWE Agents, WebUI

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Post by taskforcegemini »

taskforcegemini wrote: post #10
tikkun wrote: post #4

If this isn't by Nous Research, may want to consider renaming ( https://x.com/NousResearch , https://nousresearch.com/ )

Nous is the french word for "us". haven't heard of NousResearch

but they explain it is from the greek nous which fits better for ai

Re: Show HN: Nous – Open-Source Agent Framework with Autonomous, SWE Agents, WebUI

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Post by campers »

easygenes wrote: post #5

Cool project! Just FYI your chosen name collides with Nous Research, which has been a prominent player in open weights AI the past year.

Thanks! I posted a reply to another comment about the name clash. I thought I could add another weird to differentiate, but Nous Agents doesn't really roll off the tongue. New name ideas welcome!

Re: Show HN: Nous – Open-Source Agent Framework with Autonomous, SWE Agents, WebUI

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Post by arilotter »

tikkun wrote: post #4

If this isn't by Nous Research, may want to consider renaming ( https://x.com/NousResearch , https://nousresearch.com/ )

I can confirm this is not a projected related to Nous Research in any way, just an unfortunate naming collision

Re: Show HN: Nous – Open-Source Agent Framework with Autonomous, SWE Agents, WebUI

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Post by crystal_revenge »

downrightmike wrote: post #7
crystal_revenge wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And if it is is by Nous Research we there definitely needs to be clearer branding as this is very confusing. If OP is not Nous Research (which I suspect to be the case) then a name change is a must as they're already a fairly well established company in the LLM space (surprised OP isn't aware of the name collision already). It's a bit similar to creating a new library with the "Smiling Face with Open Hands emoji"[0]…

Never heard of you

I'm not affiliated with Nous Research in anyway, but do work in the LLM space and at least in this community it's a fairly well known org. Since this project also is in that space I was just adding support for parent's observation.

Re: Show HN: Nous – Open-Source Agent Framework with Autonomous, SWE Agents, WebUI

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Post by campers »

namanyayg wrote: post #8

This looks too good. I have a B2B AI product, the features that exist in Nous easily outclass anything I could make in a reasonable timeline. Maybe I should rewrite my app using Nous...

Thanks! I've spent a lot more time on the computer than I would like over the last few months building it.

If you think you might want to feel free to get in touch

Re: Show HN: Nous – Open-Source Agent Framework with Autonomous, SWE Agents, WebUI

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Post by campers »

simonw wrote: post #16

Which definition of "agent" are you using for this project?

Good question, at first I only called the fully autonomous agents as agents, as to me that's what having agency is. I didn't like when other projects had "multi-agent" when it's just a bunch of llm calls.

Initially the coding and software dev agents were called workflows, but to make it more agenty I was ok with it being called an agent if the result of an llm call affected the control flow

Re: Show HN: Nous – Open-Source Agent Framework with Autonomous, SWE Agents, WebUI

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Post by simonw »

campers wrote: post #17
simonw wrote: post #16

Which definition of "agent" are you using for this project?

Good question, at first I only called the fully autonomous agents as agents, as to me that's what having agency is. I didn't like when other projects had "multi-agent" when it's just a bunch of llm calls. Initially the coding and software dev agents were called workflows, but to make it more agenty I was ok with it being called an agent if the result of an llm call affected the control flow

So an agent here is the combination of a system prompt and a configured set of tools, kind of like an OpenAI "GPT"?

Re: Show HN: Nous – Open-Source Agent Framework with Autonomous, SWE Agents, WebUI

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Post by dr_dshiv »

campers wrote: post #12
easygenes wrote: post #5

Cool project! Just FYI your chosen name collides with Nous Research, which has been a prominent player in open weights AI the past year.

Thanks! I posted a reply to another comment about the name clash. I thought I could add another weird to differentiate, but Nous Agents doesn't really roll off the tongue. New name ideas welcome!

Noosphere might be cool

Re: Show HN: Nous – Open-Source Agent Framework with Autonomous, SWE Agents, WebUI

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Post by KolmogorovComp »

campers wrote: post #12
easygenes wrote: post #5

Cool project! Just FYI your chosen name collides with Nous Research, which has been a prominent player in open weights AI the past year.

Thanks! I posted a reply to another comment about the name clash. I thought I could add another weird to differentiate, but Nous Agents doesn't really roll off the tongue. New name ideas welcome!

Pick a proper noun, you will soar above the plethora of startups re-using common nouns for no good reasons (eg: "plane" having nothing to do with aeronautics).
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