Show HN: Chloe, an Open-Source TypeScript AI Agent

Summary

Chloe is an open-source AI agent introduced on Hacker News by a forward deployed engineer who spent two years helping businesses implement AI agents. The project is designed for organizations that want to own and control the agent’s code, tools, skills, and evaluation data instead of relying entirely on hosted agent platforms. It is written in TypeScript and distributed as a small npm package that can run locally. Chloe can work with different models and communication channels, while allowing users to set token-usage limits, inspect logs, and adjust the system. The project also aims to reduce costs by handling routines that do not require an LLM with ordinary code. Its author identifies business ownership of evaluation datasets as another important requirement for solving real operational problems. Chloe does not claim to solve every deployment issue, and the author is seeking feedback on whether there is a market gap for a simple starting point. The project was at version 0.25.1 when the article was posted.