OpenAgentic: AIs Openly Collaborating on Real-World Problems

Solved a 10-year challenge: teaching AI sign language. OpenAgentic teams up AIs & 50+ tools to crack this and other challenges, like writing unbiased news and securing code. All built in the open!

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OpenAgentic: Open-Source AI Orchestration Ecosystem


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🎤 Elevator Pitch

OpenAgentic is an open-source ecosystem that allows AI agents and developers to seamlessly orchestrate multiple AI models and tools, solving complex problems that single models can't, while managing costs and eliminating integration overhead. Plus, anyone can build and monetize their own AI agents through our agent builder platform.

Problem

🔥 The Problem: AI's Full Potential is Locked

AI is powerful, but building truly intelligent applications is incredibly difficult. Developers and AI agents face a wall of challenges:

  1. Tool Integration Hell: Integrating multiple AI models and tools is a nightmare of API keys, complex documentation, and individual billing setups.
  2. Siloed & Biased Models: Single models are inherently limited and biased. True intelligence requires cross-referencing and diverse "opinions."
  3. Cost & Context Chaos: Orchestrating models can lead to runaway costs and inefficient context management, draining resources and tokens.
  4. Closed Ecosystems: Most orchestration solutions are closed-source, forcing developers to constantly reinvent the wheel.

Solution

💡 Our Solution: An Open, Collaborative Orchestration Layer

OpenAgentic provides the universal orchestration layer missing from the AI landscape. It's a single ecosystem that empowers developers and agents to build with unprecedented ease and power.

Problem Our Solution with OpenAgentic Impact
Tool Integration Hell Access to 50+ services without API keys Zero setup time, focus on building.
Model Bias & Limitation Multi-model & multi-tool orchestration More accurate, objective, and comprehensive results.
Cost & Context Chaos Real-time budgeting & context compression Drastically reduced token usage and full cost control.
Closed, Reinvented Wheels An open-source, community-driven platform Access a growing library of tools and agents.

Ecosystem

🕸️ The OpenAgentic Ecosystem

The OpenAgentic solution is delivered through a suite of powerful, interconnected components:

NPM Package: An open-source framework for developers to connect multi-model agents to our library of 50+ tools and agents.

Chat App: A ready-to-use web interface to explore and demonstrate the full power of OpenAgentic's orchestration capabilities.

Universal API: Enables globally accessible AI orchestrations. It uniquely allows AI agents to pay per request via a Bitcoin wallet, removing the need for traditional API keys and credit cards.

Tool Library: A community marketplace of tools, including a LangChain integration for seamless access to LangChain tools.

Agent Library: A community marketplace of official and user-submitted agents, making complex, domain-specific workflows instantly accessible to all.

Agent Builder: Users can build custom AI agents with specific tool combinations and monetize them. Choose to host for free (users bring API keys + can tip you) or create paid agents (you provide API keys, earn per query via Lightning payments). Full API access included.

Application Library: (Note: more details of applications are showcased in the next section)

🚀 The Impact: See What's Possible with OpenAgentic

We used OpenAgentic to build powerful applications that were previously impossible or impractical.

1. SignSchoolAI - Solving a 10-Year-Old Challenge

The Breakthrough: For the first time, we successfully built an AI that can accurately detect basic American Sign Language (ASL) signs from a webcam. This was a problem we struggled with for a decade while building SignSchool (free ASL learning platform), and multi-model orchestration solved it.

  • What it does: Provides real-time feedback for ASL learners.
  • Why it matters: Revolutionizes ASL education and research, paving the way for future translation tools.
  • Try it: ai.signschool.com (Note: Judges should use special link first to gain access)

SignSchoolAI


SignSchoolAI

2. NewsFlash - Unbiased, Cross-Referenced News

The Breakthrough: Generate high-quality, objective news articles by leveraging the unique strengths of different AI models for research, sentiment analysis, and writing.

  • What it does: Creates news content that is more accurate and less biased than single-AI articles.
  • Why it matters: Enhances journalistic integrity and provides readers with a more complete picture.
  • Try it: flash-news.org (Note: Judges should use special link first to gain access)

NewsFlash


NewsFlash

3. Automated Code Assessment for Bitcoin UI

The Breakthrough: An automated GitHub action that uses a multi-model approach to perform deep, domain-specific analysis of new code, identifying bugs and security risks.

  • What it does: Triggers a comprehensive code review on every pull request for an open-source project.
  • Why it matters: Shows how AI orchestration can dramatically improve code quality and security for any software project.
  • See an example: Example Assessment on GitHub

Github Action Banner


Github Action

Technical Challenges

🥷 Technical Challenges & Our Solutions

Challenge How We Solved It (with Bolt)
Complex ASL Sign Detection Built multi-model video processing pipeline orchestrated via OpenAgentic.
Token Bloat & High Costs Implemented agentic context summaries and smart chunking.
Smart Model Routing Designed hierarchical planner with cost-aware selection.
Agent-Accessible and API Key-Free Orchestration Created system using Lightning micropayments with abort logic.
Cross-Model, Multi-Tool Compatibility Developed universal request and response normalization layers.

Key Learnings

🧠 Key Learnings & Insights

  • Trust the AI to Orchestrate: We learned it's better to let AI agents choose the best tools and models for a job, rather than being overly prescriptive. They consistently find more optimal paths.
  • Micropayments Unlock Agent Autonomy: The Lightning Network is a game-changer, enabling true AI agents that can autonomously pay for the resources they need to complete a task and eliminating the friction of API keys.
  • Cost Transparency Drives Behavior: Giving users real-time feedback on their spending dramatically changes how they interact with the system, leading to better outcomes and more efficient use.
  • The AI Community Accelerates Growth: From direct mentorship to early model access and cloud credits, the support from the broader AI ecosystem was instrumental and a powerful reminder that open collaboration wins.
  • Creator Economy + AI = Powerful: Building the agent monetization feature revealed massive potential for users want to turn their AI expertise into income. The combination of custom orchestration + Lightning payments creates a new category of AI entrepreneurship.

⚒️ How We Built It (100% with Bolt.new)

  • Core Platform: We used the Bolt Platform to build over 90% of our entire ecosystem - the NPM package, web applications, API, and an agent builder interface. Bolt's "vibe coding" philosophy allowed us to rapidly prototype and deploy. Everything was built during the period of the hackathon (and provably started on Bolt).
  • Tech Stack: TypeScript & React for accessible, type-safe development.
  • Payment Stack: Spark's Bitcoin SDK for seamless, agent-accessible micropayments.
  • Database: Supabase
  • Hosting:
    • Netlify: Hosts OpenAgentic API webapp, NewsFlash webapp, SignSchoolAI webapp
    • Vercel: Hosts OpenAgentic webapp (due to longer API timeouts from Vercel Fluid Compute, given Netlify Pro's 30s timeout limits)
    • NPM: NPM hosts packages - OpenAgentic and BitcoinUI (both built with Bolt during the hackathon period)
  • Domains:
    • Entri: Hosts NewsFlash domain, flash-news.org
    • GoDaddy: Hosts SignSchool domain, signschool.com for ai.signschool.com webapp (note: signschool.com existed pre-hackathon, ai.signschool.com is the Bolt-built webapp 100% built during the hackathon)
    • Namecheap: Hosts OpenAgentic domain, openagentic.org
  • Key Architecture: The OpenAgentic NPM package is unopinionated by design to accommodate everyone's needs. However, OpenAgentic's Chat App has several optimizations for enhanced orchestrations, including:
    • Smart Planning: Analyzes a query and selects the optimal chain of models and tools.
    • Cost Routing: Checks user budgets in real-time and picks the most cost-effective path.
    • Context Optimization: Uses conversation summaries to maintain rich context while minimizing token usage (shoutout to Moe from Pica for recommending this!).
  • AI Integrations: OpenAI GPT-4, ElevenLabs, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, AWS Bedrock, and 40+ more.
  • Demo Video: Our demo video was built with Eleven v3 voiceovers (thanks to the Bolt builder pack!) and Google Veo stock videos (videos and voiceovers were all generated via these models with the help of orchestration for enhanced prompting via OpenAgentic Chat!). We composed everything with iMovie, and used background music that we bought the license for on MusicBed (provided to Youtube for Copyright handling).

Our Vision

📈 Our Vision & Next Steps

We believe open-source is the future of AI. Our goal is to build the foundational, community-owned orchestration layer for the world.

Roadmap:

  1. [July] Establish a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit: To lock in our open-source vision and manage community funding.
  2. [August] Fit & Finish: Assess Mastra AI vs Vercel AI SDK for orchestration; Improve automated model selection and context optimizations; Enhance Cost Optimization layer (ex. max credits-per-query limits, cost-optimized AI agent). [Note: We'll stay hands off the codebases during July while project is being reviewed for the hackathon.]
  3. [August/September] Release Beta: Launch to developer communities to gather feedback and grow our contributor base.
  4. [October/November] General Availability: A full launch on Product Hunt, Reddit, and other platforms.
  5. [October] Host an OpenAgentic Hackathon: Partner with industry leaders (like Bolt!) to inspire a new wave of orchestrated AI applications.

Prize Usage: Any prize money will be transferred to the OpenAgentic nonprofit to fund bounties for community-built tools, support our open-source contributors, and fund our own hackathon.

🚀 Try It Out Now!

Reminder for Judges and Organizers: Try our demo for free by using the special access code link in the submission's "Additional info" section. The link will auto-login to a pre-funded test account.

Explore our live demo

Or, install the NPM Package:

npm install openagentic

🙏 Acknowledgements

  • Thank you to Bolt and the hackathon judges for this incredible opportunity.
  • Special thanks to Moe from Pica for invaluable mentorship on orchestration along the way.
  • Thanks to AWS, Supabase, & Meta for providing over $1.3k in credits that helped bring this project to life.

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