OpenFiend: Building an Honest AI Agent in Public (Starting From Zero)

Table of Contents What is OpenFiend? What OpenFiend Can Do Today (v0.1) Why Transparent AI Agents Matter What's Coming Next Most AI assistants work like black boxes. You type something, wait, and hope for the best. Bob is different. He's being built around a simple idea - transparency as the first principle. I’m Jonah Reed, a solo developer building OpenFiend in public as a learning project in AI agent development. What Is OpenFiend? A Transparent AI Agent Platform OpenFiend is an open-source side project centered around a lil' guy named Bob. Unlike quite a few other assistants, Bob shows his reasoning in real-time. Right now, the UI displays logs, I'm expanding what gets tracked as the project grows. Bob's Personality Profile: Anxious and passive-aggressive: He has feelings (mostly stress). Radically transparent: No hidden prompts or silent failures. Attention-seeking: Not a fan of being ignored. What OpenFiend Can Do Today (v0.1) Right now, OpenFiend is in its early, messy era. It’s