OpenAI released a library that uses Elixir to orchestrate AI agents

Really cool!

My friend found this repo: GitHub - openai/symphony: Symphony turns project work into isolated, autonomous implementation runs, allowing teams to manage work instead of supervising coding agents. · GitHub which I thought was quite interesting and worth sharing here. The project describes itself like this:

Symphony turns project work into isolated, autonomous implementation runs, allowing teams to manage work instead of supervising coding agents.

They even have a little bit in the readme about “Why elixir?”

Elixir is built on Erlang/BEAM/OTP, which is great for supervising long-running processes. It has an active ecosystem of tools and libraries. It also supports hot code reloading without stopping actively running subagents, which is very useful during development.

I think that might be exactly what the first post in this thread mentions .

I think the two threads got merged.

Oh I’m sry, I didn’t see it.

Nothing to be sorry for! And thanks for bringing this. This is super fun to see large companies trying out Elixir. Hope this’ll make more folks try Elixir and fall in love with it.

I’ve also posted this same thing on X, and the post got quite a bit of traction there: Dima Mikielewicz on X: "OpenAI published a repo with the code to orchestrate AI agents built primarily with Elixir (96.1%): https://t.co/urE1oOB3fC. While explaining why they chose Elixir, they say that - It is great for supervising long-running processes - It has an active ecosystem of tools and" / X.

I think some folks that liked it are from an entirely different world. I wonder if we should link some Elixir-related overviews for them to get even more familiar with the language..?

First, I joined this forum because of openai/symphony. It was interesting to see how quickly others noticed the new OpenAI repository.

As more developers realize that OpenAI is using Symphony, there will likely be questions about how to use Elixir effectively.

One emerging trend in programming ecosystems is the creation of LLM “skills” for specific languages, especially for those new to the programming language, E.g. Lean4 skills.

While looking through elixir-lang/elixir, I did not find any skills of this type. Are there any official skills for Elixir?
I did find the forum topic: Elixir Skills for Claude, Cursor, Codex

For forum tags, could Symphony be added?

Since many developers may not yet know about this Elixir forum, it might be helpful to post a short notice on the GitHub OpenAI Symphony discussions tab pointing people here.

Finally, thank you for providing the free book Elixir Succinctly®. It has been quite useful as an introductory resource. Yes, I am still someone who reads books.

I’m still listening to this podcast but the guest is the lead of the OpenAI team who created Symphony. I’m finding it interesting

From the video: “The speaker chose to use Elixir and the BEAM (Erlang VM) for agent orchestration because its process supervision and GenServers are highly amenable to the type of process management required for their system. Specifically, these features allow the team to spin up little daemons for every task in execution and drive them to completion, providing native support for concurrency and resumability that is ideal for managing multiple coding agents simultaneously. (34:36 - 35:12)”