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Jido 2.0 Released: Production-Ready Elixir Agent Framework for the BEAM

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Jido 2.0, an open-source Elixir agent framework for building, managing, and running AI agents on the BEAM virtual machine, reached its 2.0 release this week with production-hardened multi-agent support and distributed process supervision. The framework ships with multiple reasoning strategies (ReAct, Chain of Thought, Tree of Thought), agentic memory, MCP and Sensors support for external services, and full OpenTelemetry (OTel) observability. Jido 2.0 positions the BEAM's actor-model concurrency and fault-tolerance properties as a natural fit for agentic workloads requiring distributed, durable agent execution.

Key Takeaways

  • Jido 2.0 (MIT license) supports multi-agent coordination across distributed BEAM processes with OTP Supervision, ReAct, CoT, and Tree-of-Thought reasoning strategies
  • Includes agentic memory, MCP integration, durable storage/persistence layer, and full OpenTelemetry stack for production observability
  • 225 points on Hacker News (Show HN); project at jido.run — targets Elixir teams building AI agents on fault-tolerant BEAM infrastructure

Original source: Hacker News / jido.run