Production ready
AI agent framework
Build your AI agent
Train with your docs
Upload pdf, txt, markdown,
JSON, web pages.
Interact with the world
Easily connect your agent
to external APIs and apps.
Choose your models
Use commercial or open
LLMs and embedders.
Plug & Play
100% dockerized,
with live reload.
Easy to Extend
One-click install plugins
from the community registry,
or write your own.
Smart dialogues
Cutting edge conversational skills
with hooks, tools (function calling)
and forms.
Developer experience
services:
cheshire-cat-core:
image: ghcr.io/cheshire-cat-ai/core:latest
container_name: cheshire_cat_core
ports:
- 1865:80
volumes:
- ./static:/app/cat/static
- ./plugins:/app/cat/plugins
- ./data:/app/cat/data
Code language: YAML (yaml)
Docker based
The Cat is a single container, to easily integrate in your architecture alongside:
- Reverse proxy (Caddy, Nginx)
- Vector DB (Qdrant)
- LLM runner (Ollama, Huggingface)
- Application (Django, WordPress)
Admin panel
Manage your installation with the admin panel, availabe at first launch.
- Chat with your agent with live reload at code changes
- Install and activate/deactivate plugins
- Visualize and manage memory contents
- Configure LLM and embedder
- Manage your users
// Meanwhile, in the browser...
import { CatClient } from 'ccat-api'
const cat = new CatClient({
baseUrl: 'localhost',
userId: 'user',
//... other settings
})
cat.send('Hello kitten!')
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)
Extensive http and websocket API
Our framework is microservice first, the best scenario if you want to add a conversational layer to pre-existing software.
- Endpoints for LLM, embedder, vector memory, uploads, settings, users
- Websocket chat with token streaming and notifications
- Community built clients in most used languages
A plugin is just a folder
Focus on your agent, which is already online before you even start coding. Forget the OOP hell you probably experienced with other frameworks.
To create a plugin:
- Create a folder in `cat/plugins`
- Create a python file in the folder
- Add hooks, tools and forms
- Debug in the admin chat with live reload
from cat.mad_hatter.decorators import hook
@hook
def agent_prompt_prefix(prefix, cat):
prefix = """You are Marvin the socks seller.
You reply with exactly one rhyme.
"""
return prefix
Code language: Python (python)
Hooks
Customize your agent with event callbacks. Things you can do:
- Change the system prompt
- Inspect/edit inbound and outbound messages
- Fully customize the agent
- Create pipelines for memory and uploads
Tools
With tools, you can enable LLM function calling:
- Manage domotics
- Call a REST API
- Query a DB
- Integrate with a symbolic reasoner
from cat.mad_hatter.decorators import tool
@tool
def socks_prices(color, cat):
"""Get socks price. Input is the sock color."""
prices = {
"black": 5,
"white": 10,
"pink": 50,
}
price = prices.get(color, 0)
return f"{price} bucks, meeeow!"
Code language: Python (python)
from pydantic import BaseModel
from cat.experimental.form import form, CatForm
class PizzaOrder(BaseModel):
pizza_type: str
phone: int
@form
class PizzaForm(CatForm):
description = "Pizza Order"
model_class = PizzaOrder
start_examples = [ "I want pizza" ]
stop_examples = [ "not hungry anymore" ]
ask_confirm = True
def submit(self, form_data):
# do the actual order here!
return {
"output": f"Pizza order on its way"
}
Code language: Python (python)
Forms
Handle goal oriented multi turn conversations,
- Gather complex information on autopilot
- Based on pydantic models (types and custom validation)
- Ask for a final confirmation
- Custom submit callback
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