# itsabot/itsabot

ItsAbot makes it easy and fun to build your own digital assistant, and we include everything you need to get started.

Repository: https://github.com/itsabot/itsabot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/itsabot
Homepage: https://www.abotlabs.com
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2016-11-04T18:27:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3851, "days_push": 3589, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2142, forks 128 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:18.468183+00:00)

## What it is
Abot is an open-source Go framework for building digital assistants similar to Siri, Cortana, or Alexa, with an extensible plugin system and optional human-aided training backend. It scaffolds projects backed by PostgreSQL and serves a local console and web interface for interacting with the assistant.

## Use cases
- build my own siri-like digital assistant
- create a chatbot framework in go
- build an alexa-style assistant that runs locally
- add plugin skills to a conversational assistant
- build a human-in-the-loop assistant service like facebook m
- self-host a personal assistant server

## When to choose
- you want an extensible, self-hosted assistant framework in Go
- you need a plugin architecture for adding assistant skills
- you want to experiment with human-aided training backends

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained project - it is explicitly no longer supported
- you want modern LLM-based assistants or RAG capabilities
- you need production-grade NLU out of the box

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: abandoned
- function: agent-framework, chatbot, nlp, plugin-system, web-framework
- domain: artificial-intelligence, chatbots, developer-tools
- platform: go, self-hosted
- tags: digital-assistant, siri-like, human-in-the-loop, extensible-plugins, postgres, unsupported, ai-agents, natural-language-processing, linux, macos, web-server

## Member repositories
- itsabot/itsabot (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:18.468183+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 2026-08-30T02:51:16.869351+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/itsabot/itsabot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:18.468183+00:00, sha df5344251721)
  - homepage: https://www.abotlabs.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:31:23.982783+00:00, sha 944b1d47ceaa)
  - site_page: https://www.gladly.ai/about-us (fetched 2026-08-29T10:31:23.987770+00:00, sha 42aeec6da3a3)
  - site_page: https://www.gladly.ai/integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T10:31:23.985849+00:00, sha 5e6bfbe40e5e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.