Open Souls

Open Souls is an open-source framework and philosophy for building "AI souls" — agentic, embodied digital beings with personality, drive, and ego, built on top of large language models. The Soul Engine framework (distributed as the soul-engine npm package and CLI) models agency, memory, emotion, and goal-setting through WorkingMemory, cognitiveSteps, and MentalProcesses abstractions, describing itself as "NextJS + Vercel for the minds of digital beings." The project is now legacy: the opensouls.org site is parked and the hosted Soul Engine cloud service is no longer operating, but the open-source framework and npm packages remain published under the opensouls GitHub organization. Open Souls was surfaced as a portfolio company of a16z and added to the API Evangelist network.

Open Souls is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, AI Agents, LLM, Agent Framework, and AI Souls.

Open Souls’ developer surface includes CLI and 6 more developer resources.

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7.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only self hosted · MIT Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 18

Access Clarity 0.0 / 18

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 12

Contract Governance 0.0 / 11

Discoverability 4.5 / 9

Open Source Surface 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: open-souls
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  license: MIT
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Self-hosted open source · you run it yourself
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/open-souls.png
name: Open Souls
description: 'Open Souls is an open-source framework and philosophy for building "AI souls" — agentic, embodied digital beings
  with personality, drive, and ego, built on top of large language models. The Soul Engine framework (distributed as the soul-engine
  npm package and CLI) models agency, memory, emotion, and goal-setting through WorkingMemory, cognitiveSteps, and MentalProcesses
  abstractions, describing itself as "NextJS + Vercel for the minds of digital beings." The project is now legacy: the opensouls.org
  site is parked and the hosted Soul Engine cloud service is no longer operating, but the open-source framework and npm packages
  remain published under the opensouls GitHub organization. Open Souls was surfaced as a portfolio company of a16z and added
  to the API Evangelist network.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-souls/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 2
  pass: local-v1
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- AI Agents
- LLM
- Agent Framework
- AI Souls
- Open-Source
- Developer Tools
tags_raw:
- Company
- AI Agents
- LLM
- Agent Framework
- AI Souls
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
apis: []
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/opensouls/opensouls/issues
- type: License
  name: MIT
  url: https://github.com/opensouls/opensouls/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/opensouls
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/opensouls/opensouls
- type: Packages
  url: packages/open-souls-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/open-souls-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/open-souls-cli.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io

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