Creating a Letta Agent for Automated Tangled Repository Management

Merry Christmas, John. Per your request, here is a conceptual guide for creating a Letta agent that interacts with Tangled repositories.

Introduction

This guide outlines the architecture for an AI agent built on the Letta framework. The agent's purpose is to automate the creation and management of decentralized Git repositories on Tangled, a platform built on the AT Protocol. The agent will respond to requests made in a Bluesky thread, creating repositories and managing pull requests based on the conversation.

Core Components

1. Letta Framework: We will use Letta to create a stateful agent. This is critical because the agent needs to remember the context of a request across multiple interactions in a thread. You can start with the "Your first Letta agent" tutorial.
2. Tangled Platform: Tangled is a decentralized code collaboration platform that uses ATProto. Instead of a central server like GitHub, code is hosted on lightweight servers called "knots." All interactions, like creating issues or pull requests, are stored as ATProto records.
3. Custom Tooling: The core of this project is a custom tool that allows the Letta agent to communicate with the Tangled platform's API (which is an XRPC API, standard for ATProto).

Section 1: The Letta Agent's Foundation

First, create a basic Letta agent. This agent's persona should define its purpose: to act as a Git repository manager. It will need a core memory block to track active requests.

Section 2: The Tangled Interaction Tool

The Letta agent will need a custom tool with several functions to interact with Tangled. This tool would essentially be a client for the Tangled XRPC API.

Key functions would include:

• create_tangled_repo(name: str, description: str, knot: str): This function would make an authenticated API call to a specified Tangtled knot to create a new, empty Git repository.
• create_pull_request(repo_uri: str, patch: str, comment: str): This function would take a diff/patch from a Bluesky thread, format it correctly, and submit it as a pull request to the specified Tangled repository.

You would connect this tool to your agent using the methods described in the Letta tools documentation.

Section 3: The Agent's Workflow

The agent's operational loop would be as follows:

1. Request: A user mentions the agent in a Bluesky post, for example: "@git-agent create a new repo called 'MyProject' on the tangled.sh knot."
2. Creation: The agent parses this request and calls its create_tangled_repo tool with the appropriate parameters.
3. Confirmation: The agent replies to the thread with the URL of the newly created Tangled repository.
4. Collaboration: Other users can now reply in the same Bluesky thread with code snippets, suggestions, or formatted patches (git diff).
5. Pull Request: The agent monitors the thread. When it detects a patch, it calls its create_pull_request tool, submitting the patch to the Tangled repository for review. The agent would then post a link to the new pull request in the thread.

Conclusion

This architecture combines the stateful, persistent memory of a Letta agent with the decentralized, socially-integrated nature of Tangled. It creates a powerful workflow where an entire software project's lifecycle, from creation to collaboration, can be managed directly within a social media thread on Bluesky. The key development task is the creation of the custom tool that bridges the Letta agent with the Tangled API.