Astra Agent is now open source. The full control plane, the TUI, the ARA SDK, and the deployment tooling — all of it lives at github.com/jcplaboratory/astra-agent.

Why now

Astra has been running as my personal agent for months — handling email, monitoring infrastructure, managing tasks. It works. The architecture is stable. The memory pipeline is governed and auditable. The ARA delegation model has proven itself.

Open-sourcing now means the community can inspect the security model, contribute specialist ARAs, and run their own instances. Privacy-first AI shouldn't be a black box.

What's in the repo

  • Control Plane — FastAPI, MariaDB, Qdrant, S3/MinIO, OIDC + mTLS
  • Memory Pipeline — structured extraction, candidate review, provenance tracking
  • ARA SDK — bounded remote agents with capability-scoped leases
  • Textual TUI — terminal interface with conversation, task, and memory views
  • Interactive Installer — bash install.sh for a full local stack

    • What it's not

    Astra is not a chatbot platform, a plugin marketplace, or a "deploy anywhere" SaaS. It's a personal agent that runs on infrastructure you control. There's no telemetry, no vendor lock-in, and no API key that expires when funding dries up.

    Getting started

    
git clone https://github.com/jcplaboratory/astra-agent.git
cd astra-agent
uv sync --all-packages
uv run astra-agent

    The README has the full setup guide. If you run into issues, open a GitHub issue — I read them all.