Your own team of AI agents, living as contacts in a local chat app
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If you have ever written fifty lines of Baileys socket and reconnect code to answer one command, ManyBot reduces that to a four-line plugin.
ManyBot is a TypeScript and JavaScript framework built on Baileys. The core handles authentication, reconnection and message routing, and every feature, from a ping command to an AI integration, lives in its own plugin. A failing plugin is caught by the core so the rest of the bot keeps running, and plugins can be updated without a restart. The ManyPlug CLI scaffolds plugins and checks their dependencies. It installs from npm, needs Node 24, and is GPL-3.0. The site and community are mainly in Portuguese, and Baileys is an unofficial WhatsApp connection, so accounts carry some ban risk.
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