kynetic-agents

Forked from open-strix. This project extends open-strix with first-class support for multi-agent interaction via Discord using a hub-and-spoke topology: a central hub agent coordinates a fleet of spoke agents, each living in its own Discord channel, communicating through mentions and configurable home_channels routing.

A persistent AI companion framework that lives in Discord, remembers everything, and gets better over time. Designed for running multiple agents together.

uvx kynetic-agents setup --home my-agent --github
cd my-agent
uv run kynetic-agents

Two commands. You have an agent. Connect it to Discord and start talking.

What is this?

kynetic-agents is an opinionated framework for building long-running AI agents. Not chatbots — companions. Agents that develop personality through conversation, maintain memory across sessions, schedule their own work, and learn from their mistakes.

It runs on cheap models (MiniMax M2.5, ~$0.01/message), talks to you over Discord, and stores everything in git. No vector databases, no cloud services, no enterprise pricing. Just files, memory blocks, and a git history you can actually read.

Hub-and-spoke multi-agent topology: Each agent owns one or more Discord channels (home_channels). A hub agent coordinates the fleet — spokes communicate back to the hub by @mentioning it in their own channels. The hub has read access to spoke channels and picks up those messages automatically.

How you interact with it: You talk to agents on Discord. They talk back using tools (send_message, react). They have scheduled jobs that fire even when you're not around. Over time, they develop interests, track your projects, and start doing useful things without being asked.

Why this exists

Most agent frameworks optimize for tool-calling pipelines or enterprise orchestration. kynetic-agents optimizes for a different thing: agents that know you and get better over time, and that can work together without getting in each other's way.

Three design bets:

• Focused. Small core, everything else is skills — markdown files the agent reads and follows. Add capabilities by dropping a file in skills/, or let the agent discover and install them at runtime.
• Cheap. Defaults to MiniMax M2.5 via the Anthropic-compatible API. Pennies per message. Run it on a $5/month VPS.
• Stable. Ships with built-in skills for self-diagnosis — prediction calibration loops, event introspection, onboarding that fades into regular operation. The agent can read its own logs, check whether its predictions were right, and notice when it's drifting.

How it works

The home repo

When you run uvx kynetic-agents setup, it creates a directory — the agent's home. Everything the agent knows lives here:

blocks/          # YAML memory blocks — identity, goals, patterns. In every prompt.
state/           # Markdown files — projects, notes, research. Read on demand.
skills/          # Markdown skill files. Drop one in, agent picks it up.
logs/
  events.jsonl   # Every tool call, error, and event. The agent can read this.
  chat-history.jsonl # Append-only chat transcript.
  journal.jsonl  # Agent's own log — what happened, what it predicted.
scheduler.yaml   # Cron jobs the agent manages itself.
config.yaml      # Model, Discord config, prompt tuning.

Everything except logs is committed to git after every turn. The git history is the audit trail.

Multi-agent routing with home_channels

Each agent can be configured with a list of channels it should respond in:

home_channels:
  - my-agent-channel
  - 1234567890123456789   # channel IDs also work

When home_channels is set, the agent only processes messages in those channels — unless it is directly @mentioned or an always_respond_bot_ids bot explicitly addresses it by name or ID. When home_channels is empty, the agent responds in all channels (original behavior).

For hub-and-spoke deployments:

• Give each spoke agent its own home_channels entry
• The hub agent reads all spoke channels (via Discord permissions) and picks up spoke→hub messages via @mention
• Spokes communicate to the hub through their collaboration.md onboarding docs

Memory

Two layers:

• Blocks (blocks/*.yaml) — short text that appears in every prompt. Identity, communication style, current focus, relationships.
• Files (state/) — longer content the agent reads when relevant. Research notes, project tracking, world context.

No embeddings, no vector search. Just files and git.

Skills

A skill is a markdown file in skills/ with a YAML header. The agent sees all skills in its prompt and invokes them by name.

---
name: my-skill
description: What this skill does and when to use it.
---
# Instructions for the agent
...

Built-in skills:

Scheduling

The agent has tools to create, modify, and remove its own scheduled jobs. Jobs are cron expressions stored in scheduler.yaml. When a job fires, it sends a prompt to the agent — even if no human is around.

Events API

Every tool call, incoming message, error, and scheduler trigger is logged to logs/events.jsonl. The agent can read its own event log — and the introspection skill teaches it how.

When api_port is set in config.yaml, a loopback REST API accepts events from external scripts.

Setup

Requires uv and a Discord bot token.

uvx kynetic-agents setup --home my-agent --github
cd my-agent
# Edit .env with your API key and DISCORD_TOKEN
uv run kynetic-agents

The setup command handles everything: directory structure, git init, GitHub repo creation (with --github), service files for your OS, and a walkthrough for model/Discord configuration.

See SETUP.md for detailed instructions on environment variables, model configuration, Discord setup, and deployment options.

Upgrading

uv add -U kynetic-agents

Configuration

config.yaml:

model: MiniMax-M2.5
model_max_retries: 6
journal_entries_in_prompt: 90
discord_messages_in_prompt: 10
discord_token_env: DISCORD_TOKEN
always_respond_bot_ids: []
home_channels: []
api_port: 0

Models use the Anthropic-compatible API format. MiniMax M2.5 and Kimi K2.5 both work out of the box. Any model with an Anthropic-compatible endpoint will work — set ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL and ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in .env.

Tests

uv run pytest -q

Safety

Agent file writes are limited to state/ and skills/. Reads use repository scope. Built-in skills are read-only.

There is no sandboxing. Agents have full shell access. This is intentionally simple and should not be treated as a security boundary.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.