Walrus

The composable agent runtime. Compact daemon core. Memory, channels, tools — all hooks. Use what you need, skip what you don't.

curl -fsSL https://openwalrus.xyz/install.sh | sh

Or cargo install openwalrus. See the installation guide for details.

Quick Start

# Start the daemon
walrus daemon

# Chat with your agent
walrus attach

Point it at any LLM — Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, or any OpenAI-compatible API.

[walrus]
model = "qwen3:4b"

[model.qwen3]
base_url = "http://localhost:11434/v1"

Full config reference: configuration.

How It Works

Walrus is a daemon that runs agents and dispatches tools. The daemon ships with built-in tools (file I/O, shell, task delegation), MCP server integration, and [skills] (Markdown prompt files).

Heavier capabilities live outside the daemon as WHS services — managed child processes you add or remove in config: