🌐 OmniDaemon
Universal Event-Driven Runtime Engine for AI Agents
Run any AI agent. Any framework. One event-driven control plane. Created by Abiola Adeshina • From the team behind OmniCoreAgent🌊 Why OmniDaemon Exists: The “Single Process” Trap
Most AI frameworks run everything in a single Python process. One crash kills your entire system.
The Problem
Frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen are great for building agent logic, but they run as a single process.- ❌ One agent crashes? The entire process dies.
- ❌ Memory leak? Affects all agents in the process.
- ❌ No fault isolation Each agent shares the same memory space.
The OmniDaemon Solution: Process Isolation
OmniDaemon runs each agent in its own isolated process (like containers), managed by a Supervisor.- ✅ Fault Isolation: If Agent A crashes, Agent B keeps running.
- ✅ Auto-Recovery: Supervisors automatically restart crashed agents.
- ✅ Resource Safety: Clean memory/CPU boundaries per agent.
- ✅ Production-Ready: Run Python agents (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, custom) with process isolation.
Each agent runs in its own “container” (process) but shares the underlying host resources (CPU, memory). One pod crash doesn’t affect others, and the orchestrator (Supervisor) handles lifecycle management.
👉 See the deep dive: OmniDaemon vs Other Frameworks
📚 Event-Driven Architectures: A Primer
In the early days, software systems were monoliths. Everything lived in a single, tightly integrated codebase. While simple to build, monoliths became a nightmare as they grew. Scaling was a blunt instrument: you had to scale the entire application, even if only one part needed it. This inefficiency led to bloated systems and brittle architectures that couldn’t handle growth. Microservices changed this. By breaking applications into smaller, independently deployable components, teams could scale and update specific parts without touching the whole system. But this created a new challenge: how do all these smaller services communicate effectively? If we connect services through direct RPC or API calls, we create a giant mess of interdependencies. If one service goes down, it impacts all nodes along the connected path. EDA solved the problem. Instead of tightly coupled, synchronous communication, EDA enables components to communicate asynchronously through events. Services don’t wait on each other — they react to what’s happening in real-time. This approach made systems more resilient and adaptable, allowing them to handle the complexity of modern workflows. It wasn’t just a technical breakthrough; it was a survival strategy for systems under pressure.⚠️ The Rise and Fall of Early Social Giants
The rise and fall of early social networks like Friendster underscore the importance of scalable architecture. Friendster captured massive user bases early on, but their systems couldn’t handle the demand. Performance issues drove users away, and the platform ultimately failed. On the flip side, Facebook thrived not just because of its features but because it invested in scalable infrastructure. It didn’t crumble under the weight of success — it rose to dominate. Today, we risk seeing a similar story play out with AI agents. Like early social networks, agents will experience rapid growth and adoption. Building agents isn’t enough. The real question is whether your architecture can handle the complexity of distributed data, tool integrations, and multi-agent collaboration. Without the right foundation, your agent stack could fall apart just like the early casualties of social media.🚀 The Future is Event-Driven Agents
The future of AI isn’t just about building smarter agents — it’s about creating systems that can evolve and scale as the technology advances. With the AI stack and underlying models changing rapidly, rigid designs quickly become barriers to innovation. To keep pace, we need architectures that prioritize flexibility, adaptability, and seamless integration. EDA is the foundation for this future, enabling agents to thrive in dynamic environments while remaining resilient and scalable.🤝 Agents as Microservices with Informational Dependencies
Agents are similar to microservices: they’re autonomous, decoupled, and capable of handling tasks independently. But agents go further. While microservices typically process discrete operations, agents rely on shared, context-rich information to reason, make decisions, and collaborate. This creates unique demands for managing dependencies and ensuring real-time data flows. For instance, an agent might pull customer data from a CRM, analyze live analytics, and use external tools — all while sharing updates with other agents. These interactions require a system where agents can work independently but still exchange critical information fluidly. EDA solves this challenge by acting as a “central nervous system” for data. It allows agents to broadcast events asynchronously, ensuring that information flows dynamically without creating rigid dependencies. This decoupling lets agents operate autonomously while integrating seamlessly into broader workflows and systems.🔓 Decoupling While Keeping Context Intact
Building flexible systems doesn’t mean sacrificing context. Traditional, tightly coupled designs often bind workflows to specific pipelines or technologies, forcing teams to navigate bottlenecks and dependencies. Changes in one part of the stack ripple through the system, slowing innovation and scaling efforts. EDA eliminates these constraints. By decoupling workflows and enabling asynchronous communication, EDA allows different parts of the stack — agents, data sources, tools, and application layers — to function independently. Take today’s AI stack, for example. MLOps teams manage pipelines like RAG, data scientists select models, and application developers build the interface and backend. A tightly coupled design forces all these teams into unnecessary interdependencies, slowing delivery and making it harder to adapt as new tools and techniques emerge. In contrast, an event-driven system ensures that workflows stay loosely coupled, allowing each team to innovate independently. Application layers don’t need to understand the AI’s internals — they simply consume results when needed. This decoupling also ensures AI insights don’t remain siloed. Outputs from agents can seamlessly integrate into CRMs, CDPs, analytics tools, and more, creating a unified, adaptable ecosystem.⚡ Scaling Agents with Event-Driven Architecture
EDA is the backbone of this transition to agentic systems. Its ability to decouple workflows while enabling real-time communication ensures that agents can operate efficiently at scale. Platforms like Kafka exemplify the advantages of EDA in an agent-driven system:- Horizontal Scalability: Distributed design supports the addition of new agents or consumers without bottlenecks, ensuring the system grows effortlessly.
- Low Latency: Real-time event processing enables agents to respond instantly to changes, ensuring fast and reliable workflows.
- Loose Coupling: By communicating through topics rather than direct dependencies, agents remain independent and scalable.
- Event Persistence: Durable message storage guarantees that no data is lost in transit, which is critical for high-reliability workflows.
🎯 Event-Driven Agents Will Define the Future of AI
The AI landscape is evolving rapidly, and architectures must evolve with it. And businesses are ready. A Forum Ventures survey found that 48% of senior IT leaders are prepared to integrate AI agents into operations, with 33% saying they’re very prepared. This shows a clear demand for systems that can scale and handle complexity. EDA is the key to building agent systems that are flexible, resilient, and scalable. It decouples components, enables real-time workflows, and ensures agents can integrate seamlessly into broader ecosystems. Those who adopt EDA won’t just survive — they’ll gain a competitive edge in this new wave of AI innovation. The rest? They risk being left behind, casualties of their own inability to scale.🎯 What is OmniDaemon?
“Kubernetes for AI Agents” - A universal runtime that makes AI agents autonomous, observable, and scalable.OmniDaemon transforms AI from static reasoning engines into event-driven, self-operating entities that integrate seamlessly across clouds, data streams, and enterprise environments.
In 5 Seconds
- 🤖 Run AI agents in the background (not chatbots, not APIs)
- 📨 Event-driven (agents react to events, not HTTP requests)
- 🔌 Use any AI framework (OmniCore Agent, Google ADK, LangChain, or custom)
- 🚀 Production-ready (retries, DLQ, metrics, scaling built-in)
🌊 Why Event-Driven AI? The Evolution Story
The AI Evolution: Three Waves
AI has progressed through distinct waves, each unlocking new possibilities but also introducing critical limitations.Wave 1: Predictive Models (Traditional ML)
The first wave focused on narrowly defined, domain-specific tasks.- ❌ Domain-specific and rigid
- ❌ Required ML expertise for each use case
- ❌ Difficult to repurpose
- ❌ Lacked scalability
Wave 2: Generative Models (LLMs)
Generative AI revolutionized capabilities by training on vast, diverse datasets.- ❌ Fixed in time (no dynamic information)
- ❌ Expensive to fine-tune
- ❌ No access to private/domain data
- ❌ Generic responses without context
“Recommend an insurance policy tailored to my health history, location, and financial goals.”The LLM can’t deliver accurate recommendations because it lacks access to your personal data. Without it, responses are either generic or wrong. Solution: Compound AI (RAG) Retrieval-Augmented Generation bridges the gap:
- Retrieve user’s health and financial data from database
- Add data to context during prompt assembly
- LLM generates accurate, personalized response
Wave 3: Agentic AI (Current)
The future of AI lies with autonomous agents — systems that think, adapt, and act independently.- ✅ Dynamic workflows (figure out next steps on the fly)
- ✅ Context-driven (adapt to the situation)
- ✅ Autonomous (no pre-defined paths needed)
- ✅ Tool use (access external systems)
- ✅ Memory (learn from past interactions)
“Agents are the new apps.” — Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot CTO
“We’ve reached the upper limits of what LLMs can do. The future lies with autonomous agents.” — Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO (The Wall Street Journal, “Future of Everything” podcast)Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s Orion are reportedly hitting limits despite larger training datasets. The next breakthrough isn’t bigger models — it’s agentic systems.
🏗️ Why Agents Need Event-Driven Architecture
The Infrastructure Problem
AI agents aren’t just an AI problem — they’re a distributed systems problem. Agents need:- 📊 Access to data from multiple sources
- 🔧 Ability to use tools and external systems
- 🤝 Communication with other agents
- 🌐 Outputs available to multiple services
- ⚡ Real-time responsiveness
- 📈 Horizontal scalability
The Tight Coupling Problem
You could connect agents via APIs and RPC, but that creates:The Event-Driven Solution
Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) solves this through loose coupling:Agents as Microservices
Like microservices, agents are:- Autonomous - Operate independently
- Decoupled - Don’t depend on each other
- Scalable - Add more instances for load
- Context-rich - Need shared information to reason
- Tool-enabled - Interact with external systems
- Collaborative - Share insights with other agents
- Adaptive - Modify behavior based on events
🚀 What OmniDaemon Provides
Traditional AI (Request-Driven)
OmniDaemon (Event-Driven)
Core Features
| Feature | What It Means |
|---|---|
| 🤖 Run Any AI Agent | OmniCore Agent, Google ADK, LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, LlamaIndex, or custom |
| 📨 Event-Driven | Agents listen to topics, not HTTP endpoints |
| 🔄 Auto Retries | Failed tasks retry automatically (configurable) |
| 💀 Dead Letter Queue | Failed messages go to DLQ for analysis |
| 📊 Real-time Metrics | Tasks received, processed, failed, timing |
| 🎛️ Full Control | Beautiful CLI + HTTP API for management |
| ⚖️ Horizontal Scaling | Run multiple agent instances for load balancing |
| 🔌 Pluggable | Swap backends via environment variables (no code changes!) |
Pluggable Architecture
The Simple Truth: You provide the URL, OmniDaemon handles EVERYTHING else!🎯 When to Use OmniDaemon
OmniDaemon is a distributed, event-driven runtime for AI agents and automation. It works seamlessly alongside HTTP, WebSockets, and SSE — and often powers the internal logic behind them.✅ Perfect For
- Background AI Agents Autonomous agents reacting to events, triggers, or system signals.
- Event-Driven Workflows Multi-step pipelines coordinated through events.
- Distributed Multi-Agent Systems Sub-agents running across different servers, runtimes, or toolsets.
- Async & Long-Running AI Tasks Workloads that shouldn’t block a client request (analysis, ingestion, evaluation).
- Enterprise AI Ops Durable, observable, scalable systems with retries, logs, and monitoring baked in.
- Hybrid Real-Time + Background Work Use SSE/WebSockets for live streaming, while OmniDaemon handles internal agent events and orchestration.
❌ Overkill For (Simpler Alternatives Exist)
- Simple HTTP APIs — FastAPI/Flask are more straightforward.
- Pure Real-Time Chat Only — WebSockets/SSE alone give lower direct latency.
- Strict Synchronous Request→Response — REST/RPC is simpler when no async logic is involved.
- Single-Shot Scripts — A basic Python script is sufficient.
🆚 Compared to Alternatives
| Tool | Use Case | vs OmniDaemon |
|---|---|---|
| Celery | Task queues | ❌ Not AI-first, complex setup, no agent abstraction |
| AWS Lambda | Serverless functions | ❌ Cold starts, time limits, vendor lock-in |
| Temporal | Workflow engine | ❌ Heavy, complex, not AI-optimized |
| Airflow | DAG orchestration | ❌ Batch-oriented, not real-time events |
| OmniDaemon | AI Agent Runtime | ✅ AI-first, event-driven, any framework, production-ready |
🏗️ Architecture
Key Components
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Event Bus (Pluggable) - Message broker for event distribution
- Currently: Redis Streams
- Coming: Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS
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Storage (Pluggable) - Persistent layer for agents, results, metrics
- Currently: Redis, JSON
- Coming: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, S3
- Agent Runner - Orchestrates agent execution and lifecycle
- CLI - Beautiful command-line interface (powered by Rich)
- API - RESTful HTTP API (powered by FastAPI)
- SDK - Python SDK for agent integration
🏭 Production Mode: Agent Supervisors
Refactoring from “Simple Mode” to “Production Mode” is easy.
When to use Supervisors?
- Simple Mode (
sdk.register_agent): Great for lightweight tasks, development, and simple logic. Runs in the main process. - Supervisor Mode (
create_supervisor_from_directory): REQUIRED for production AI agents. Runs in a separate process with auto-restart, crash protection, and full isolation.
How to implement
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Structure your agent:
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Use the Supervisor in
agent_runner.py:
📚 See full examples:
🚀 Quick Start
Get OmniDaemon running in 5 minutes with production-ready process isolation:my_first_agent/agent.py):
my_first_agent/__init__.py):
agent_runner.py):
📚 What’s Next?
For New Users
- Getting Started - Understand core concepts
- Quick Start Tutorial - Build your first agent in 10 minutes
- Complete Examples - Real-world agent implementations
For Developers
- How-To Guides - Solve specific problems
- Common Patterns - Production-ready recipes
- API Reference - Complete SDK documentation
For Architects
- Architecture & Design - Deep dive into system design
- Enterprise - Use cases and deployment guide
🌟 Learn More
- Read the README - Comprehensive overview
- Explore Examples - Working code
- Join Community - Get help and contribute