Cheshire Cat AI
Framework for building AI assistants with memory and plugins
Cheshire Cat AI is a framework for developing custom AI agents on top of any language model. It provides conversational memory, a plugin system, and a ready-to-use admin panel for building production assistants.
Key features
- Long-term memory
- Plugin marketplace
- Model-agnostic
- Admin dashboard
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Released under the GPL-3.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Active community (3.1k GitHub stars)
- Written in Python
Trade-offs
- Plugin docs still maturing
- Requires LLM backend
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