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title: ADL Specification
description: Agent Definition Language specification for Open Interpreter
---

# ADL Specification for Open Interpreter

This document provides a comprehensive Agent Definition Language (ADL) specification for Open Interpreter, enabling standardized, declarative agent definitions across platforms.

## Overview

The ADL specification transforms Open Interpreter from a Python-specific implementation into a standardized, platform-agnostic agent definition that can be implemented in any language or framework while maintaining all its powerful capabilities.

## Core Philosophy

- **Agent-Centric**: Everything revolves around agent behavior and interaction
- **Language-Agnostic**: Can be implemented in any programming language
- **Framework-Independent**: Works with any agent platform or system
- **Declarative**: Focus on "what" rather than "how"
- **Composable**: Agents can be combined and orchestrated easily

## Specification

### Metadata

```yaml
apiVersion: adl.dev/v1
kind: Agent
metadata:
name: open-interpreter
description: "AI agent for general-purpose computing tasks through natural language to code execution"
version: "0.4.3"
namespace: "open-interpreter"
labels:
app: "open-interpreter"
type: "general-purpose-agent"
category: "code-execution"
annotations:
author: "Open Interpreter Team"
license: "MIT"
repository: "https://github.com/OpenInterpreter/open-interpreter"
```

### Capabilities

Open Interpreter provides eight core capabilities:

1. **Code Execution**: Execute code in multiple programming languages
2. **Natural Language Processing**: Process and understand natural language commands
3. **Computer Control**: Control mouse, keyboard, and GUI elements
4. **File Operations**: Read, write, edit, and manage files
5. **Web Browsing**: Search web and navigate URLs
6. **Vision Processing**: Analyze images and screenshots
7. **Communication**: Send emails, SMS, and manage contacts
8. **System Integration**: Control operating system and applications

### Tool Categories

#### Code Execution Tools (10 languages)
- Python, JavaScript, Shell, Ruby, R, PowerShell, Java, HTML, AppleScript, React

#### File Operations
- Search, read, write, edit, delete files with encoding support

#### Computer Control
- Mouse: click, move, drag, scroll
- Keyboard: write, press, hotkey combinations

#### Vision Processing
- Screenshot capture with region selection
- Image analysis (objects, text, faces, general)

#### Web Browsing
- Web search (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo)
- URL navigation and content extraction

#### Communication
- Email sending with attachments
- SMS messaging
- Calendar event creation
- Contact information retrieval

#### AI Services
- Image generation with style options
- Custom skill execution

#### System Integration
- System information retrieval
- System command execution

### Multi-Interface Support

```yaml
interfaces:
- name: "terminal"
description: "Command-line terminal interface"
type: "cli"
- name: "api"
description: "RESTful API for programmatic access"
type: "http"
port: 8080
- name: "websocket"
description: "WebSocket interface for real-time communication"
type: "websocket"
port: 8081
```

### Security & Safety

The specification includes comprehensive security measures:

- **Input Validation**: All inputs are validated before processing
- **Output Sanitization**: All outputs are sanitized for safety
- **Code Execution Sandbox**: Isolated execution environment
- **Resource Limits**: CPU, memory, and file size constraints
- **Safe Mode**: User confirmation for dangerous operations

### Deployment Options

Supports multiple deployment scenarios:

- **Docker**: Containerized deployment with Python 3.10-slim base
- **Kubernetes**: Cloud-native deployment with auto-scaling
- **Cloud Providers**: AWS, GCP, Azure support
- **Local Development**: Poetry-based development environment

### Testing Framework

Comprehensive testing support:

- **Unit Tests**: pytest framework with 80% coverage requirement
- **Integration Tests**: End-to-end testing with 300s timeout
- **E2E Tests**: Playwright with multi-browser support

## Benefits

### Standardization
- **Unified Interface**: Consistent agent definition across platforms
- **Vendor Agnostic**: Works with any AI provider or framework
- **Interoperability**: Easy integration with other agent systems

### Code Generation
- **Production-Ready Code**: Generate implementations in Python, TypeScript, Go
- **API Documentation**: Automatic OpenAPI specification generation
- **Configuration Files**: Docker, Kubernetes, cloud deployment configs
- **Test Suites**: Automated testing with conversation flows

### Enterprise Features
- **Security**: Comprehensive safety and validation mechanisms
- **Monitoring**: Built-in metrics, logging, and tracing
- **Scaling**: Cloud-native deployment with auto-scaling
- **Compliance**: Standardized security practices

## Implementation

The complete ADL specification can be found in the repository as `open-interpreter-agent-complete.adl`. This file contains:

- Complete tool definitions with JSON schemas
- Security and safety configurations
- Deployment and infrastructure settings
- Testing and documentation specifications

## Future Extensions

The ADL specification enables future enhancements:

- **Enhanced Learning**: User preference learning and adaptive behavior
- **Advanced Coordination**: Swarm intelligence and emergent behavior
- **Extended Capabilities**: Quantum computing, neuromorphic computing, edge computing

## Conclusion

This ADL specification demonstrates how Open Interpreter can be understood purely in terms of agent behaviors, interactions, and cognitive architectures, independent of its Python implementation details. The language-agnostic description enables developers to understand the system's agent-centric design and potentially implement it in other languages or frameworks.

The specification provides a powerful lens for understanding complex agent systems like Open Interpreter, focusing on the essential agent behaviors rather than implementation details.
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