Minimalist Agent provides a bare-bones framework for building AI agents in Python. It leverages LangChain’s agent classes and OpenAI’s API to perform multi-step reasoning, dynamically select tools, and execute functions. You can clone the repository, configure your OpenAI API key, define custom tools or endpoints, and run the CLI script to interact with the agent. The design emphasizes clarity and extensibility, making it easy to study, modify, and extend core agent behaviors for experimentation or teaching.

Flat AI is a minimal-dependency Python framework from MindsDB designed to embed AI capabilities into products quickly. It supports chat, document retrieval and QA, text summarization, and more through a consistent interface. Developers can connect to OpenAI, Hugging Face, Anthropic, and other LLMs, as well as popular vector stores, without managing infrastructure. Flat AI handles prompt templating, batching, caching, error handling, multi-tenancy, and monitoring out of the box, enabling scalable, secure deployment of AI features in web apps, analytics tools, and automation workflows.