ACI.dev Goes Open Source: Building Infrastructure for AI Agents
April 22, 2025 · 10 min read
ACI.dev Goes Open Source!
Date: 22 April 2025
ACI.dev: Open Source Tool-Use Infrastructure for AI Agents
ACI.dev helps you ship reliable, production‑grade agents in minutes by connecting them to 600 + pre‑built integrations with multi‑tenant auth, granular permissions, and dynamic tool discovery. You can access everything through direct function calls (Python SDK) or a unified Model‑Context‑Protocol (MCP) server.
Our mission is simple: handle the tedious, critical infrastructure for production‑ready AI agents so you can focus on agent experiences that deliver real value.
Our Vision: The Future Superapp for AI Agents
We believe agents will soon be the main way humans interact with software. Those agents need their own “operating layer” for discovering tools, managing auth, and collaborating with other agents—an Agent‑Computer Interface.
Today ACI.dev is a developer platform; tomorrow it’s the hub where any personal agent can instantly gain capabilities by connecting once. Agents themselves will navigate ACI.dev to configure tools, obtain credentials, and coordinate with specialized agent services—always within clear security and privacy boundaries.
What Makes ACI.dev Different
- Scale Built‑In: 600 + ready‑to‑use integrations surfaced through dynamic discovery & retrieval.
- Unified Access: Use a lightweight SDK or one connection to our unified MCP server.
- Production‑Ready Auth: Built‑in OAuth flows, secrets management, and per‑user tenancy by default.
- Natural‑Language Permission Boundaries keep agents on‑task and safe while boosting tool accuracy.
- No Vendor Lock‑In: Works with any agent framework and agent architecture.
- Truly Open Source: Backend, dev portal, and entire integration library—no source‑available traps.
Common Use Cases
- Outbound Sales Agent: Automates lead generation, email outreach, and CRM updates.
- Customer Support Agent: Provides answers, manages tickets, and performs actions based on customer queries.
- Research Agent: Conducts research on specific topics and syncs results to other apps (e.g., Notion, Google Sheets).
- Personal Assistant Chatbots: Build chatbots that can search the web, manage calendars, send emails, interact with SaaS tools, etc.
Navigating a Rapidly Evolving Ecosystem
Anthropic’s MCP is racing ahead, Google’s A2A is emerging, and new protocols appear every quarter. ACI.dev takes a pragmatic approach:
- Leverage Standards: Full MCP support today; A2A support on our roadmap.
- Extend Where Needed: We layer enterprise‑grade multi‑tenancy, fine‑grained auth, and NL permissions on top.
- Future‑Proof Architecture: Open, extensible, and backward‑compatible as the spec wars shake out.
As we improve the platform, we will keep a close eye on critical aspects that improve overall agent reliability and how they can become acceptable for adoption in real world production use cases.
Addressing Real Adoption Barriers
Despite the excitement around AI agents, our conversations with enterprises reveal that widespread adoption faces two critical barriers—reliability, and accountability.
| Barrier | How ACI.dev solves it |
|---|---|
| Reliability — Wrong tool calls, malformed params. | Enhanced tool-use accuracy via dynamic discovery and natural language permission boundaries. |
| Accountability — No guardrails, no audit. | Granular authorization and audit trails (coming soon) with multi-tenant isolation. |
By focusing on these fundamental challenges, ACI.dev bridges the gap between experimental agents and production-ready systems that organizations can confidently deploy.
The Platform for AI's Next Frontier
Use ACI.dev to:
- Connect agents to 600 + integrations in minutes.
- Deploy securely in multi‑tenant enterprise environments.
- Avoid reliability pitfalls with NL permission boundaries.
- Stay framework‑ and model‑agnostic—build once, run anywhere.
Join the Movement
We’re abstracting away integrations, authentication, and security so you can spend time on what matters: building agents people love.
- ⭐ Star the repo
- 🛠️ Contribute code or integrations
- 🚀 Self‑host or try our managed instance at ACI.dev
Let's create the infrastructure layer that becomes part of the technological singularity’s event horizon.