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GH · GITHUB// 31d agoOPENSOURCE RELEASE
AstrBot brings agents to chat apps
AstrBot is an open-source framework for building and deploying LLM-powered chatbots inside messaging platforms like Telegram, Slack, Discord, QQ, and enterprise IM tools. It pairs multi-platform connectors with plugin support, MCP, multimodal features, and self-hosted deployment paths, making it more infrastructure than a simple bot template.
// ANALYSIS
AstrBot is interesting because it treats messaging apps as the runtime for agent products, not just another notification surface.
- –It supports a wide spread of channels and model backends, which lowers the friction for teams that need one bot layer across multiple IM ecosystems
- –The project bundles agent features like MCP, knowledge bases, web UI, and sandboxed tool execution instead of leaving developers to stitch them together
- –With 20k+ GitHub stars and active releases, it looks more like a fast-moving open-source platform than a niche chatbot repo
- –Its self-hosted and plugin-heavy design should appeal to developers who want more control than closed hosted bot builders provide
// TAGS
astrbotagentchatbotmcpopen-sourceself-hosted
DISCOVERED
31d ago
2026-03-11
PUBLISHED
31d ago
2026-03-11
RELEVANCE
8/ 10