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PraisonAI: Autonomous AI Agents

Ship self-improving agents with PraisonAI. For founders needing AI workforce solutions.

From the repo · “PraisonAI 🦞 — Hire a 24/7 AI Workforce. Stop writing boilerplate and start shipping autonomous self-improving agents that research, plan, code, and execute tasks. Deployed in 5 lines of code with built-in memory, RAG, and support for 100+ LLMs.”

intermediate⏱ 30 minutes💵 Free + LLM API costs
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What it is

Create autonomous AI agents that improve themselves to automate tasks.

Real use case example

"A founder wants to automate a welcome email for new Stripe customers. They write 5 lines of code with PraisonAI to create an agent that researches customer info, plans the email, codes it, and executes it. The agent continues to improve itself, sending automated emails to new customers every hour."

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When to use it
  • •When you need to automate repetitive coding tasks without extensive manual configuration
  • •When you want to leverage the power of 100+ large language models (LLMs) for your startup's workflow
  • •When you need a 24/7 AI workforce that can learn and improve over time
Ready-to-paste prompt
Create a new agent that uses the LLaMA LLM to generate code for a simple web scraper: `agent = Agent(llm='llama', task='code_generation', prompt='Generate a Python script to scrape website data')`
Heads up: Make sure you have the necessary dependencies and a compatible Python version (3.8+) installed, as PraisonAI requires specific runtime environments to function correctly
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🔑 Needs an API key

Works after you add credentials — the setup agent will ask you for them.

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How PraisonAI: Autonomous AI Agents works
Codeflow
Free to inspect

PraisonAI: Autonomous AI Agents is a very large Python project (~870k lines across 3749 code files, plus 2057 test files). Setup is light: installs like a normal app — add your API keys. Reading the code is optional. Last commit this month, MIT license, has a test suite.

Size
Very large codebase
~870k lines · 3749 code files · days to read — use, don't read
Setup
One-command install
Installs like a normal app — add your API keys. Reading the code is optional.
Runs on
Docker
Needs API keys (.env)
Python 82%TypeScript 14%Rust 3%JavaScript 1%
Where to start reading
  1. 1
    README.md
    Start here — what it does and how to install it
  2. 2
    AGENTS.md
    The instructions the AI actually follows
  3. 3
    .env.example
    The API keys and settings you must provide
  4. 4
    src/praisonai-agents/__init__.py
    Inside src/ — the main logic begins here
  5. 5
    examples/.gitignore
    A worked example — copy this to get going
What's in each folder
src/Core code — the actual logic5387 files
examples/Examples you can copy1105 files
scripts/Helper scripts23 files
docker/Deployment / infrastructure20 files
.github/CI / automation (GitHub Actions)83 files
READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksDocker readyExamples includedMIT licenseUpdated this month
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Details
Creator
MervinPraison
Language
Python
Category
saas-starter
Published
3/19/2024

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