BabyAGI
https://github.com/yoheinakajima/babyagi
Yohei Nakajima's iconic spring-2023 task-list agent loop (original now in babyagi_archive); the repo now hosts an experimental self-building 'functionz' function framework.
Active · Verified 2026-10-26 · fresh as of 2026-10-26 · 22 cited facts, 1 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Task-loop agent (origin) repo fix
- Tier
- T2
- Latest release
- no GitHub releases repo fix
- Pricing
- free (OSS) repo fix
- Funding
- searched not found fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-26 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- open-source repo fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 0.11 (12-mo avg 0.74) · 1 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
Optimised for: searched not found
Anti-fit: searched not found
Pros & cons
Pros
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Cons
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Claims & capabilities
Founding artefact of the agent-loop pattern.
Technical surface
- API surface
- searched not found
- Backend storage
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Deployment
- Self-hosted only — library
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- searched not found
- A2A
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- OpenTelemetry
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Sources (21 cited facts, 1 third-party)
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- What it is Task-loop agent (origin) repo
- What it does & what's distinct Yohei Nakajima's iconic spring-2023 task-list agent loop (original now in babyagi_archiv… repo
- Claims / benefits Founding artefact of the agent-loop pattern. repo
- Created 2023 repo
- Latest release no GitHub releases repo
- License MIT repo
- GitHub yoheinakajima/babyagi — ~22.3k stars, last commit unknown (not archived) repo
- Pricing free (OSS) repo
- Deployment Self-hosted only — library repo
- Founders / pedigree Yohei Nakajima (Untapped Capital); founded 2023-04 as proof-of-concept. repo
- Code/weights release Active — last commit 2026-01 · 22,261★ repo
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- commit-trajectory [{"ym":"2024-09","cum":5},{"ym":"2024-10","cum":12},{"ym":"2024-11","cum":13},{"ym":"202… repo
- download-trajectory [{"ym":"2025-11","monthly":204,"cum":204},{"ym":"2025-12","monthly":471,"cum":675},{"ym"… registry
- architecture-deployment-locus local repo
- licensing-bucket open-source repo
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform repo
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":2.02,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":0.74,"openrank_current":0.11,"partici… third-party
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