Show HN: AgentKit – JavaScript Alternative to OpenAI Agents SDK with Native MCP

📰 Hacker News · tonyhb

Hi HN! I’m Tony, co-founder of Inngest. I wanted to share AgentKit, our Typescript multi-agent library we’ve been cooking and testing with some early users in prod for months. Although OpenAI’s Agents SDK has been launched since, we think an Agent framework should offer more deterministic and flexible routing, work with multiple model providers, embrace MCP (for rich tooling), and support the unstoppable and growing community of TypeScript AI developers by enabling a smooth transition to production use cases. This is why we are building AgentKit, and we’re really excited about it for a few reasons: Firstly, it’s simple. We embrace KISS principles brought by Anthropic and HuggingFace by allowing you to gradually add autonomy to your AgentKit program using primitives: - Agents: LLM calls that can be combined with prompts, tools, and MCP native support. - Networks: a simple way to get Agents to collaborate with a shared State, including handoff. - State: combines conversation history with

Published 20 Mar 2025
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