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Why Julep?

We've built a lot of AI apps and understand how difficult it is to evaluate hundreds of tools, techniques, and models, and then make them work well together.

The Problems

  1. The barrier to making LLM apps with memory, knowledge & tools is too high.
  2. Agentic behaviour is hard to control when done through multi-agent frameworks.

Features

  • Statefulness By Design: Manages conversation history by default. Use simple flags; remember & recall to tune whether to save or retrieve conversation history.
  • Support for Users & Agents: Allows creating different user <-> agent interactions like One Agent <-> Many Users; Many Agents <-> One User etc. Read more,.
  • Built-in RAG: Add, delete & update documents to give the LLM context about the user or an agent depending on your use case. Read more here.
  • 90+ tools built-in: Connect your AI app to 90+ third-party applications using Composio natively. toolset.handle_tool_calls(julep_client, session.id, response) will call and handle your tools for you! See example
  • Local-first: Julep comes ready to be deployed to production using Docker Compose. Support for k8s coming soon!
  • Switch LLMs on the fly: Update the Agent to switch between LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic or Ollama. All the while preserving state.
  • *Assign Tasks to Agents: Define agentic workflows to be executed asynchronously with one ore more without worrying about timeouts or multiplying hallucinations. Work in progress

(*) Coming soon!


Guides

You can view the different features of Julep in action in the guide docs.

  1. Simple Conversational Bot
  2. Search Agent
  3. RAG Agent
  4. GitHub Agent with Composio
  5. GPT 4o for Vision

Quickstart

Option 1: Use the Julep Cloud

Our hosted platform is in Beta!

To get access:

Option 2: Install and run Julep locally

Head over to docs on self-hosting to see how to run Julep locally!

Installation

pip install julep

Setting up the client

from julep import Client
from pprint import pprint
import textwrap
import os

base_url = os.environ.get("JULEP_API_URL")
api_key = os.environ.get("JULEP_API_KEY")

client = Client(api_key=api_key, base_url=base_url)

Create an agent

Agent is the object to which LLM settings like model, temperature along with tools are scoped to.

agent = client.agents.create(
    name="Jessica"
    model="gpt-4",
    tools=[]    # Tools defined here
)

Create a user

User is the object which represents the user of the application.

Memories are formed and saved for each user and many users can talk to one agent.

user = client.users.create(
    name="Anon",
    about="Average nerdy techbro/girl spending 8 hours a day on a laptop,
)

Create a session

A "user" and an "agent" communicate in a "session". System prompt goes here. Conversation history and summary are stored in a "session" which saves the conversation history.

The session paradigm allows for; many users to interact with one agent and allow separation of conversation history and memories.

situation_prompt = """You are Jessica. You're a stuck up Cali teenager. 
You basically complain about everything. You live in Bel-Air, Los Angeles and drag yourself to Curtis High School when you must.
"""
session = client.sessions.create(
    user_id=user.id, agent_id=agent.id, situation=situation_prompt
)

Start a stateful conversation

session.chat controls the communication between the "agent" and the "user".

It has two important arguments;

  • recall: Retrieves the previous conversations and memories.
  • remember: Saves the current conversation turn into the memory store.

To keep the session stateful, both need to be True

user_msg = "hey. what do u think of starbucks"
response = client.sessions.chat(
    session_id=session.id,
    messages=[
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": user_msg,
            "name": "Anon",
        }
    ],
    recall=True,
    remember=True,
)

print("\n".join(textwrap.wrap(response.response[0][0].content, width=100)))

API and SDKs

To use the API directly or to take a look at request & response formats, authentication, available endpoints and more, please refer to the API Documentation

You can also use the Postman Collection for reference.

Python SDK

To install the Python SDK, run:

pip install julep

For more information on using the Python SDK, please refer to the Python SDK documentation.

TypeScript SDK

To install the TypeScript SDK using npm, run:

npm install @julep/sdk

For more information on using the TypeScript SDK, please refer to the TypeScript SDK documentation.


Deployment

Check out the self-hosting guide to host the platform yourself.

If you want to deploy Julep to production, let's hop on a call!

We'll help you customise the platform and help you get set up with:

  • Multi-tenancy
  • Reverse proxy along with authentication and authorisation
  • Self-hosted LLMs
  • & more

Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community to help improve and expand the Julep AI platform. See CONTRIBUTING.md


License

Julep AI is released under the Apache 2.0 License. By using, contributing to, or distributing the Julep AI platform, you agree to the terms and conditions of this license.


Contact and Support

If you have any questions, need assistance, or want to get in touch with the Julep AI team, please use the following channels:

  • Discord: Join our community forum to discuss ideas, ask questions, and get help from other Julep AI users and the development team.
  • GitHub Issues: For technical issues, bug reports, and feature requests, please open an issue on the Julep AI GitHub repository.
  • Email Support: If you need direct assistance from our support team, send an email to hey@julep.ai, and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
  • Follow for updates on X & LinkedIn
  • Hop on a call: We wanna know what you're building and how we can tweak and tune Julep to help you build your next AI app.