Jido

About Jido

Jido is an open-source agent framework for Elixir, aimed at teams who want AI agents that behave like ordinary supervised production services rather than fragile prompt chains. You define an agent as a module, hand it a set of tools and a system prompt, start it under a supervisor, and call it like any other process. Because it sits on the BEAM, the failure model comes for free: when an agent crashes its supervisor restarts it with clean state, so there is no orchestrator to babysit and no manual recovery path to write. The framework's second design decision is that agents coordinate through typed Actions and Signals rather than by passing prompts to each other, which means each step of a multi-agent workflow can be unit tested and debugged independently the way normal code is. Telemetry and tracing are built in across every agent, so workflows can be traced across processes in production. Jido is explicitly incremental — you add one agent to an existing Elixir application without a rewrite or a platform migration, then add more agents, tools, and ecosystem packages only as you need them. The documented use cases include coding agents, multi-step research and synthesis, document extraction and routing, customer support, DevOps remediation, and scheduled data pipelines.

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