Dumb question: why would I use this instead of airflow with some custom built agent bits?
Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications
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Re: Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications
#122How does this compare to https://strandsagents.com/ ? I'm interested in tools in this space, right now I'm not attached to one, but Bedrock + Serverless on Agent Core feels like the "easy guided path" though I don't like the platform lock-in
Strands is more opinionated and higher-level, also not vendor neutral.
Re: Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was looking at their docs and Burr has agent cookbooks to get started with this, and it can handle multi-machine workflows. Is this not what you were looking for? I am not sure how it integrates and uses skills etc, but it seems like it should work to me. https://burr.apache.org/docs/examples/agents/
Thank you. I want something like that, but that uses codex/claude code as agents (through their corresponding subscriptions), instead of having to create ad-hoc agents + api keys
You can absolutely do that by using subprocess.run, or use the codex sdk
Re: Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications
#124On a tangent, can anyone recommend good coding agent orchestration tools or platform? Something to launch, manage and monitor codex or claude agents in multiple machines Ideally self-hostable/open source I know claude code has a lot of that internally built in already, but it’s claude-only
I had a similar need to yours, so if you're looking for a job launcher for multi-agents, I'd like to recommend "Prompt-Combo", it's freeware.
Re: Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
100% agreed, the "this is what an agent looks like to write" is the wrong pitch for a new agent framework. The better pitch would be, "this is how easy observability, guardrails, monitoring, deployment, evals, versioning, A/B testing are with our framework." What the agent code looks like is somewhat incidental.
This this this! Anyone have something they genuinely like for all of this? For now I'm rolling my own, but I can't believe I won't find a better OSS alternative soon...
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