PySpur — Visual Playground for Agentic Workflows
Build, debug, and iterate AI agents visually, 10x faster, with human-in-the-loop, loops, RAG, and multimodal support.
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What does this agent do, and when should you use it?
PySpur is an open-source visual platform for building and iterating AI agent workflows. It offers a UI to define test cases, build agents via Python code or a drag-and-drop interface, debug step-by-step, evaluate, and deploy as an API with one click. Core features include human-in-the-loop breakpoints, iterative tool calling loops, file upload, structured outputs (JSON Schema editor), RAG (parse, chunk, embed, upsert into vector DB), multimodal inputs (video, images, audio, text, code), tool integrations (Slack, Firecrawl.dev, Google Sheets, GitHub, and more), automatic traces, evals, and support for 100+ LLM providers, embedders, and vector DBs. Installation is via pip, and running `pyspur init` and `pyspur serve --sqlite` gets you started locally. The project is licensed under Apache-2.0 and is built with Python at its core, targeting AI engineers.
PySpur enables users to create agent workflows via a UI or Python code. Users can define test cases, then build a graph of nodes that can call LLMs, tools, execute loops, perform RAG pipelines (parse, chunk, embed, upsert), and handle multimodal inputs (PDFs, videos, audio, images). Workflows can include human-in-the-loop breakpoints that pause execution until approved. Each node can be debugged individually, with zoomed-in output inspection. After execution, traces are automatically captured. Finally, agents can be deployed as an API with one click. Tools include Slack, Firecrawl.dev, Google Sheets, GitHub, and more. All operations are done through the UI or the pyspur CLI.
- AI engineers needing to iterate on prompts quickly can use PySpur's test case feature and node-level debugging to avoid prompt hell.
- QA workflows that require human oversight (e.g., content moderation) can use built-in human-in-the-loop breakpoints to pause at critical outputs for approval.
- Developers building RAG applications can create document collections and vector indexes via the UI without writing integration code.
- Teams working with multimodal data (e.g., video, audio, images) can leverage PySpur's input support in a single workflow.
- Agents that need to be exposed as an API can be published with one click, integrating anywhere.
- Organizations wanting to avoid vendor lock-in can switch between 100+ LLM providers, embedders, and vector DBs while reusing the same workflow.
What are this agent's strengths and limitations?
- Visual interface accelerates agent iteration, with step-by-step debugging at node level.
- Human approval breakpoints enable quality-controlled workflows.
- Built-in RAG and multimodal processing eliminate extra integration work.
- Support for 100+ LLM providers, embedders, and vector DBs reduces vendor lock-in.
- Python-based core is approachable for developers, and extensibility via single Python files.
- Requires Python 3.11+; not aimed at completely non-technical users.
- Default SQLite may be less stable than PostgreSQL for production; extra configuration needed.
- Development setup officially supports only Unix-like systems; Windows development is not supported.
- Documentation may not cover all features; new users may rely on examples and videos.
How do you install or deploy this agent?
- Ensure Python 3.11 or higher is installed. 2. Run
pip install pyspur. 3. Runpyspur init my-projectto create a new project, thencd my-project. 4. Runpyspur serve --sqliteto start the server, accessible at http://localhost:6080. Optionally, configure a PostgreSQL URL in the .env file for a more stable experience.
How do you use this agent?
After starting, open the UI and add provider API keys (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) in the API Keys tab. Define test cases (Step 1), build the agent (Step 2), iterate (Step 3), and deploy (Step 4). You can also directly write Python nodes; adding a new node is as simple as creating a single Python file.