BuzzBot With An Orgo Computer Project

Hey guys, I had a great call yesterday with Nick. I’ll tag him below, but thanks again for your time, man. I really appreciate it.

The conversation gave me some big insights into where Orgo fits, how I should be using it, and how much bigger the opportunity is than simply giving one AI agent access to a browser.

Funny enough, Grok Bot was released while Nick and I were on the call. As we were talking, something clicked for me.

I’m a huge supporter of open source, startups, and small businesses. The last thing I want is for people to build their entire AI operation inside one closed ecosystem where they’re permanently tied to a specific model, API, and vendor.

So I went ahead and forked Buzz, the open-source agent workspace released by Block last week, and started building a project called Ethos.

The vision is pretty simple:

Take everything Grok Bot is supposed to be, remove the model lock-in, and make it open.

Ethos will let you create your own autonomous agents, choose whichever models and agent harnesses you want, allow the agents to work together, and give each one its own persistent Orgo computer.

That means every agent can eventually have:

Its own identity and role
Its own channels and permissions
Its own model and skills
Its own memory
Its own browser, files, and applications
Its own Orgo computer
Multi-agent orchestration
Human takeover and approval controls
A complete record of what it did

And because it’s open source, we aren’t stuck waiting for one company to decide what agents should be allowed to do. We can build the features we need, connect the models and tools we want, and keep improving it together.

The project is live here:

GitHub - jbellsolutions/ethos: Open-source workspace for autonomous AI agents with replaceable models, tools, browsers, and persistent computers. · GitHub

I’d really like some help building this.

There are a lot of smart people in this group, and every one of you sees things I won’t. Go through the project.

Read the Ethos, architecture, and roadmap. Find the holes. Find the weak points. Pick it apart. Claim an issue. Suggest something better. Contribute wherever you can.

I’m only one person, and this will be far better if we build it together.

Let’s create something special, keep open source competitive, and give autonomous agents a home that isn’t controlled by one model company.

And

@Nick Vasilescu

, thanks again for the conversation and the inspiration. I think there’s something real here.

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BuzzBot With An Orgo Computer Project