Transcription: OpenAgents Episode 103 - Planning AutoDev Agents

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[00:00] Christopher David: All right, this plug-ins UI seems to be working fine, so we've got these four pieces of our road map done and launched in beta

[00:07] Christopher David: What we're still missing are like truly compelling agents for which people are going to pay real money

[00:15] Christopher David: That's kind of a prerequisite for there to be meaningful money coming in so even though next on a road map

[00:21] Christopher David: We want to make it easier for you to like share your agents

[00:25] Christopher David: The agent still are not very good so

[00:28] Christopher David: While we have this plug-ins UI that allows developers to kind of build in any direction and like add all sorts of different API integrations and get creative with that

[00:38] Christopher David: We are going to be really focusing in one direction

[00:42] Christopher David: kind of at the company level and also putting some bounties behind specific plug-ins that we want to see to enable this use case of

[00:49] Christopher David: Coding agents

[00:51] Christopher David: Drop in remote workers that can start automating some of these white color jobs

[00:57] Christopher David: Among other things. Okay, so we're going to start with this

[01:02] Christopher David: Guy call auto dev now we did a little bit of work back in the day around

[01:09] Christopher David: episode 20 of this series planning a GitHub agent

[01:14] Christopher David: We called it theory we did a little bit of work kind of making PRs and comments and planning and writing some code. It was pretty cool

[01:22] Christopher David: These days some of that stuff there are like start-ups that focus explicitly on

[01:32] Christopher David: Stuff like code base indexing piece. We're not going to build this ourselves. We're just going to use

[01:37] Christopher David: Grip tile

[01:39] Christopher David: We've got an integration with them that seems to be working pretty well as well as you know right now our

[01:46] Christopher David: Agent chat uses this kind of rag that we implemented

[01:50] Christopher David: But we're going to be experimenting with this service that again just purpose build purpose focus

[01:56] Christopher David: laser focus on rag

[01:58] Christopher David: so

[02:01] Christopher David: Here's what this will look like on the back end. We're going to have these two kind of platform primitives

[02:05] Christopher David: The other main things that are going to be needed for a good

[02:09] Christopher David: Auto dev agent we use Grip tile for code base indexing. We use raggy for rag

[02:14] Christopher David: We've got our ex-ism plugins on top of that for all sorts of other custom functionality for example some person wrote a plugin that lets you

[02:22] Christopher David: Take a screenshot of a

[02:24] Christopher David: web page very easily the NAPI and they wrote a plugin for that. So that's one thing that like extends

[02:32] Christopher David: Functionality relevant to a coding agent, but it doesn't require involvement from our dev team. That's pretty cool

[02:38] Christopher David: We got to kind of take what we have now and change it a little bit of like the task structure to fit this new UI you actual the front end

[02:48] Christopher David: And this is just going to be driven kind of largely taken from what deven and the various like open dev and project have

[02:56] Christopher David: By way of their interface. We're doing all this open source

[03:01] Christopher David: Of course, but we'll learn from what the big closed source companies are doing

[03:08] Christopher David: As we have to this point with open AI so the front end on the left is the thread list kind of like we have right now

[03:13] Christopher David: It opens agents.com and then the message list that's kind of like the equivalent of what we have now

[03:19] Christopher David: At open agents.com you get the the threads called at the message list

[03:24] Christopher David: Hello, son it

[03:26] Christopher David: And then we'll be adding this agent workspace, which has like shell browser editor planner

[03:32] Christopher David: Well, add that stuff as needed. Okay, so this is what we're building next. We're going to build this out in the next

[03:40] Christopher David: You know five or ten videos will see how fast we can build this. We're going to probably do some touring of the available

[03:49] Christopher David: Open source kind of deven clones. There's one called open deven. That's got a bunch of

[03:54] Christopher David: You know UI that might be worth studying and

[03:57] Christopher David: Yeah, there's a bunch of cool projects like this that you know you got to clone down and do Docker

[04:03] Christopher David: And we're just going to start pulling this into like a actual beautiful interface and sharing the revenue that comes in with our users

[04:13] Christopher David: Okay, Auto dev. Let's do it. See you soon