TL;DR. Today's AI agents can call tools. The scaffolding for actually running a job — visible progress, real isolation, continuity across devices — is still missing. After hitting the same three pain points enough times, I'm rebuilding the agent platform from scratch. Open source. Self-hostable. Pre-alpha. Build in public, every week. Star github.com/tianshu-ai if you want the v0.1 demo when it lands — or scroll down and tell me which of the three pains hit you the hardest.
The 3-minute video version
If you'd rather read, the rest of the post says the same thing — with a few more concrete examples and three architecture sketches the video skips.
I've been using AI agents for a while
For a year or so I've been using a handful of agent-shaped tools — to do research, run code, automate boring stuff. Different products, similar shape: a chat box, a tool-using model behind it, sometimes a sandbox.
