Polyant

Latest stable release. Polyant 1.2.0  was released on 2026-10-12. Read Upgrading to 1.2.0 before deploying it: the upgrade needs operator action. See the Changelog for what changed.

Polyant is an open-source, self-hosted platform for building and operating AI agents, with long-term memory, multi-channel support, technical audit and full per-instance customization. It provides a complete runtime for multi-agent systems with an OpenAI-compatible API, a NestJS engine, and a Next.js admin panel - batteries included.

The name comes from Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach - specifically the “Ant Fugue” dialogue and the character of Aunt Hillary, an ant colony understood as the archetype of emergent intelligence: individual agents, each one limited, that produce - by coordinating - a collective intelligent behaviour that exceeds the sum of its parts. It is, literally, the thesis we are pitching: fleets of specialised agents that, when orchestrated, generate performance impossible for any single agent. Poly- (classical Greek, “many”) makes the key concept explicit: coordinated multiplicity.

Many agents. One mind.

🌐 Product site: polyant.ai - you are reading the documentation, published at docs.polyant.ai.

Get started in three paths

🚀 Quickstart

Have an instance running locally in about 10 minutes. Spin up Postgres with Docker, boot the engine, create your first instance, and chat with it from the admin panel.

🧠 Architecture

Understand how Polyant works under the hood - the message pipeline, the supervisor, tool registry, memory layer, and how channels plug into instances.

⚙️ Deployment

Take it to production. Container-ready recipes for the most common targets, environment variable reference, and operational notes.

What you can build

• Customer-facing assistants on Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp, or your own web/API client via the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API
• Internal copilots with per-instance prompts, skills, and tools
• Event-driven agents (the Room) that react to webhooks and trigger workflows asynchronously
• Multi-tenant deployments where each instance has isolated config, secrets, and channel credentials

License

The self-hosted Polyant software is released under the AGPL-3.0-or-later  license. Source on GitHub  - product site at polyant.ai .