openfang

Why we included this project

OpenFang is an agent runtime written in Rust that compiles to a single binary, and its core idea is that agents keep working on their own instead of waiting for a prompt. You can schedule them to run around the clock, and the bundled Hands cover practical jobs out of the box: a lead generator, a researcher that produces cited reports, a YouTube-to-shorts pipeline, and a browser agent that can fill forms and work through multi-step web tasks. Each Hand ships with its own manifest, system prompt, and guardrails, so sensitive actions like purchases require explicit approval before they go through. Building your own agents means defining a HAND.toml and publishing it, which keeps the system extensible without a heavy Python dependency stack. The project is pre-1.0, and the maintainers are honest that minor versions can introduce breaking changes, so production use means pinning to a specific commit. For teams that want an always-on agent runtime, it is a concrete, well-documented option.