I like PocketFlow. You beat me on the # of lines of code! But does it provide parallelization, caching, orchestration, versioning, observability, lineage, multi-modal support?
As you just showed, building an agent SDK is easy, so what's interesting to me is tackling:
- Infrastructure Sprawl: Juggling separate systems for vector search, state tracking, multimodal data handling, and monitoring leads to fragmented workflows and high operational costs.
- State Management Nightmares: Reliably tracking agent memory, tool calls, and intermediate states across potentially long-running, asynchronous tasks is incredibly difficult.
- Multimodal Integration Pain: Integrating and processing images, audio, video, and documents alongside text requires specialized, often disparate, tooling.
- Observability Gaps: Understanding why an agent made a decision or failed requires visibility into its state and data lineage, which is often lacking.
And doing all of that while finding the right abstraction layer to leave all the application and business logic to the dev/users so they don't feel limited. It's difficult!
Besides, I don't know where you see a commercial offering? Everything is Apache 2.0/Open Source from A to Z.
PocketFlow is not from me, but just my current favorite ;)
I just got the feeling that the lib is tied to pixeltable, but maybe I misunderstood? Maybe that's why this is dead?
pocketflow is completely standalone and the main thing is that you vibe code what you need (works awesome so far!).
I don't want to sideline the discussion about pixelagent, but here's some more about pf:
As you just showed, building an agent SDK is easy, so what's interesting to me is tackling:
- Infrastructure Sprawl: Juggling separate systems for vector search, state tracking, multimodal data handling, and monitoring leads to fragmented workflows and high operational costs. - State Management Nightmares: Reliably tracking agent memory, tool calls, and intermediate states across potentially long-running, asynchronous tasks is incredibly difficult. - Multimodal Integration Pain: Integrating and processing images, audio, video, and documents alongside text requires specialized, often disparate, tooling. - Observability Gaps: Understanding why an agent made a decision or failed requires visibility into its state and data lineage, which is often lacking.
And doing all of that while finding the right abstraction layer to leave all the application and business logic to the dev/users so they don't feel limited. It's difficult!
Besides, I don't know where you see a commercial offering? Everything is Apache 2.0/Open Source from A to Z.