Agents Aea
A framework for autonomous economic agent (AEA) development
Agents Aea is an open-source ai agent by fetchai, written mainly in Python, with 241 GitHub stars and the Apache-2.0 license. Its code was last updated Jul 8, 2026.
The AEA framework allows you to create Autonomous Economic Agents:
- An AEA is an <b>Agent</b>, representing an individual, family, organisation or object (a.k.a. its "owner") in the digital world. It looks after its owner's interests and has their preferences in mind when acting on their behalf.
- AEAs are <b>Autonomous</b>; acting with no, or minimal, interference from their owners.
- AEAs have a narrow and specific focus: creating <b>Economic</b> value for their owners.
To install
- Ensure you have Python (version
3.8,3.9or3.10). - (optional) Use a virtual environment (e.g.
pipenvorpoetry). - Install:
pip install aea[all]
Please see the installation page for more details.
Documentation
The full documentation, including how to get started, can be found here.
Contributing
All contributions are very welcome! Remember, contribution is not only PRs and code, but any help with docs or helping other developers solve their issues are very appreciated!
Read below to learn how you can take part in the AEA project.
Code of Conduct
Please be sure to read and follow our Code of Conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.
Contribution Guidelines
Read our contribution guidelines to learn about our issue and PR submission processes, coding rules, and more.
Development Guidelines
Read our development guidelines to learn about the development processes and workflows when contributing to different parts of the AEA project.
Issues, Questions and Discussions
We use GitHub Issues for tracking requests and bugs, and GitHub Discussions for general questions and discussion.
License
The AEA project is licensed under Apache License 2.0.
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