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jcz2020/par

jcz2020/par is an MIT-licensed open-source OCaml 5 programmable agent runtime (PAR) that handles the agent plumbing - ReAct loop, tool dispatch, multi-provider LLM calls, persistence, event bus, middleware - so application developers can focus on the agent's logic instead of the infrastructure; written in OCaml for type safety and structured concurrency, accessible from three surfaces: the OCaml S

Score7.8
Popularity102.0
Risklow
TierSilver
Score breakdown
Usefulness8.2
Novelty7.9
Momentum9.7
Maturity7.8
Open-source/build7.4
Evidence7.2
Workflow potential8.9
Setup ease6.5

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Why it matters

Useful for OCaml developers building production LLM applications who want a first-class agent runtime with a typed interface; for Python backend engineers who want type-safe agent infrastructure without rewriting their stack in OCaml (pip install par-runtime); for CLI-first users who want a single par ask "question" command without writing any code; for teams building shell-tool agents who want co

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