Show HN: KaibanJS – JavaScript Framework for Building Multi-Agent Systems

[darielnoel]

Hey HN,

A couple of friends and I spent the last three months working on KaibanJS, an open-source framework for building AI multi-agent systems.

Honestly, we’re not 100% sure it’s fully ready for launch. But we’d love to get your feedback on it.

The idea came from us trying to find a native JS solution for working with AI agents, and we couldn’t find anything that really fit well with the JS ecosystem… stuff like React, Next, State management, etc. So, we decided to build it ourselves.

Because KaibanJS runs in the browser, we also built a cool UI—a Kanban board, kinda like Trello, that lets you visualize your agents as they work. It's much better than having to look at AI agent logs in the console ;)

KaibanJS is designed to make working with agents easier for JS devs, without dealing with all the low-level stuff, but it’s flexible enough to handle more complex setups if needed. (We even use LangChain behind the scenes for some of the orchestration.)

We’re excited to hear what you think, and any feedback would be super helpful.

Thanks in advance

[pixelmania]

How does KaibanJS compare to something like langchain or langgraph. Are they trying to solve similar problems?

[darielnoel]

I will say Langchain is more for orchestrating LLM, so it’s not really about agents or agents coordination like KaibanJS. (We do use Langchain behind the scenes for some of that). LangGraph while focused on agents, is super low level. you can do complex stuff, but the learning curve is bit high. I also think it could take better advantage of the JS ecosystem (like state management and deeper React/Node.js integration). But this is my personal opinion.

[pixelmania]

So KaibanJS sounds like it’s more focused on making things easier for JS devs who want to work with agents, right?

[darielnoel]

yep, that’s the idea. make it easier for JS devs to work with agents without needing to get into all the low level stuff. but leaving doors open to do more deep ones.

[pixelmania]

ok ok , good luck with it. Seems like an interesting project. I’ll keep an eye on it

[darielnoel]

Any questions or feedback. Please let me know :)

[danng87]

Another javascript framework… Do we really need more of these?

[darielnoel]

but for multi-agent systems, and AI in general Javascript options are pretty limited. And finding one that integrates easily with react, next, node, handles state management, etc? that's been tricky

[danng87]

Multi agent systems in javascript? javascript is the last thing I’d use for anything serious like AI

[darielnoel]

haha, I get the skeptcism but JS is everywhere in web dev. lot of devs want to stay in the JS ecosystem.

[eMPee584]

True, true. No thanks, I'd rather like the zombie apocalypse in that case.

[pixelmania]

Javaccripts been evolving fast, and there is a huge community behind it

[danng87]

Big community or not it still sounds like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. But whatever good luck!!!

[darielnoel]

JS was not built for half the things it’s doing today. But it does it :)

[darielnoel]

Yep. Javascript is everywhere and with tools improving constantly.