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Deputies, an open source background agent

Deputies, an open source background agent

by spalas·May 22, 2026·3 points·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●●SolidShip ItSolve My Problem

Self-hosted alternative to Stripe Minions for teams avoiding cloud-only agents.

Strengths
  • •Explicit architecture modes allow scaling from monolith to multi-service deployment.
  • •Sandbox isolation with Daytona or Docker prevents agents from touching production resources.
  • •Review workflow includes browser-based IDE diff viewer for inspecting agent output.
Weaknesses
  • •Relies on Flue framework which adds an extra dependency layer to manage.
  • •Coming soon features like RBAC and evals are critical for team adoption but missing.
Target Audience

Engineering teams wanting self-hosted AI automation

Similar To

OpenSWE · Minions · Inspect

Post Description

Inspired by Ramp's inspect, Stripe's Minions, and open source versions like open-inspect & open-swe, I decided to build my version of a background agent!

It is built on https://flueframework.com/ with deployability as a core feature (aka it can deploy on a server in your closet or to an EKS cluster in AWS). These types of systems are most valuable when you can deploy them into your existing infrastructure where they can safely access resources you wouldn't want to expose otherwise.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

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