# microsoft/amplifier

Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/amplifier
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/amplifier
Language: Shell
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T10:27:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 62/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 25
- inputs: {"age_days": 358, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3117, forks 260 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:44.174016+00:00)

## What it is
Amplifier is a modular, extensible AI-powered development assistant delivered as a command-line tool from Microsoft. It provides chat and agent capabilities backed by pluggable modules and capability bundles, with support for multiple LLM providers like Anthropic, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Ollama.

## Use cases
- run an AI coding assistant from the terminal
- chat with an LLM in the command line
- build custom AI agents with a modular framework
- switch between LLM providers like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Ollama
- add capability bundles of specialized agents
- experiment with an open modular AI assistant platform

## When to choose
- you want a hackable, modular AI CLI assistant you can extend with custom modules and bundles
- you want to experiment with an open research project for AI-assisted development
- you need multi-provider LLM support (Anthropic, OpenAI, Azure, Ollama) in a terminal tool
- you work on macOS, Linux, or WSL and want a quick-install AI assistant

## When to avoid
- you need a production-ready tool with mature safety systems and stability guarantees
- you rely on native Windows shells rather than WSL
- you want a polished, officially supported product rather than an early-preview research demonstrator
- your workflow cannot tolerate significant breaking changes between versions

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: experimental
- function: cli, agent-framework, llm-inference, chatbot, developer-tools, plugin-system
- domain: developer-tools, artificial-intelligence, large-language-models
- platform: windows, cli, python
- tags: ai-coding-assistant, modular-architecture, llm-cli, early-preview, research-project, extensible-agents, command-line, ai-agents, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- microsoft/amplifier (main) score 62

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:44.174016+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:45:59.318916+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/microsoft/amplifier (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:44.174016+00:00, sha ca4db673d51e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.