PilotDeck

PilotDeck is an open source 'agent operating system' from OpenBMB, ModelBest, and Tsinghua's THUNLP, AGPL-3.0. It bundles three pieces most agent frameworks leave to you: a WorkSpace abstraction that keeps projects isolated, a white-box memory layer you can view and edit, and a smart router that sends cheap tasks to cheap models. Free, with a working web UI.

Self-hosting is Docker, with TypeScript, Python, and Go components, so it's a real install, not a hobby script. The memory model is the most distinctive piece: instead of a black-box vector store you can't reason about, every entry is human-readable and auditable. The router claims around 70% cost reduction on real workloads by downgrading simple tasks to smaller models.

For solo developers building agents who currently glue together LangGraph and a router, this collapses a few components into one and gives you a UI for memory and workspaces. Small teams running production agents get cost savings worth measuring. Larger orgs should treat it as research-grade until they verify the routing decisions on their own task mix.

The catch: this is research-driven and the team is academic-plus-startup, so expect rapid changes and rough edges. The AGPL license also means anyone offering it as a service has to share modifications, which matters if you're embedding it inside a SaaS product. For internal use, it's an opinionated and ambitious starting point.