Thanks Xintong, Sean, and Chris for starting this discussion. +1 to initial Flink Agents sub project.
Look forward to its first release! Best, Jingsong On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM Xintong Song <tonysong...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi devs, > > Sean, Chris and I would like to start a discussion on FLIP-531 [1], about > introducing a new sub-project, Flink Agents. > > With the rise of agentic AI, we have identified great new opportunities for > Flink, particularly in the system-triggered agent scenarios. We believe the > future of AI agent applications is industrialized, where agents will not > only be triggered by users, but increasingly by systems as well. Flink's > event capabilities in real-time distributed event processing, state > management and exact-once consistency fault tolerance make it well-suited > as a framework for building such system-triggered agents. Furthermore, > system-triggered agents are often tightly coupled with data processing. > Flink's outstanding data processing capabilities allows seamless > integration between data and agentic processing. These capabilities > differentiate Flink from other agent frameworks with unique advantages in > the context of system-triggered agents. > > We propose this effort as a sub-project of Apache Flink, with a separate > code repository and lightweight developing process, for rapid iteration > during the early stage. > > Please note that this FLIP is focused on the high-level plans, including > motivation, positioning, goals, roadmap, and operating model of the > project. Detailed technical design is out of the scope and will be > discussed during the rapid prototyping and iterations. > > For more details, please check the FLIP [1]. Looking forward to your > feedback. > > Best, > > Xintong > > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-531%3A+Initiate+Flink+Agents+as+a+new+Sub-Peoject
