shinkai local ai agents
Basic Information
Shinkai is an open-source, cross-platform platform for building and deploying autonomous AI agents with a no-code visual builder. The repository provides a monorepo implementation that ships a Tauri-based desktop app (shinkai-desktop) plus shared libraries for messaging, state, UI components and internationalization. It supports multi-agent orchestration so teams of agents can collaborate, share context, and run multi-step workflows. The platform is crypto-native with built-in support for decentralized payments and DeFi interactions and is compatible with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) so agents can interoperate with models like Claude and Cursor. Shinkai can run locally for privacy or connect to cloud models and includes example agents such as trading bots, email assistants, data intelligence agents and DeFi portfolio managers. The repo includes scripts to download required side binaries such as the Shinkai Node and Ollama models.