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Chat agents for your team, with approvals and sandboxed tools. Slack, Discord, Telegram, webhooks.

95 starsTypeScript

Heypi – Like OpenClaw but for Your Team (Slack, Discord, etc.)

by hunvreus·May 29, 2026·3 points·2 comments
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Approval flows for team AI agents when most frameworks ignore enterprise safety needs.

Strengths
  • •Sandboxing options (Docker, Gondolin) prevent runaway commands from damaging production systems.
  • •Markdown-based config files (SOUL.md, AGENTS.md) make agent behavior auditable and version-controlled.
  • •Built-in audit trail and heartbeat monitoring address real compliance requirements for team tools.
Weaknesses
  • •Only 9 stars and early stability labels suggest limited production adoption so far.
  • •Competes with OpenClaw, LangChain, and numerous AI agent frameworks in a crowded space.
Target Audience

DevOps teams and engineering teams deploying AI agents in chat platforms

Similar To

OpenClaw · LangChain · Botkit

Post Description

I kind of wanted Openclaw, but for teams.

It's a Typescript framework to create chat agents for Slack, Discord, and the likes:

- Sandboxing for commands (just-bash, Docker, Gondolin), - Approval flows (e.g. any "risky" command needs approval from a certain team on Slack), - Configuration with markdown files (SOUL.md, AGENTS.md) and skills, - It's built on Pi, so you can use Pi extensions (ish), - And a lot more: web admin panel, audit trail, cron and heartbeat, support for documents (PDF, docx, etc), ...

There are a few examples in the repo, including a DevOps assistant that can help your team manage servers. I'll whip out a demo in the next few days.

If you're adventurous enough to give it a try, let me know.

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