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Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multi

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Haystack by deepset is a production-oriented framework for building search and RAG pipelines with a clear, composable component model.

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Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multi

haystack has 26.4k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 3.1k times. haystack is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2019. haystack is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Its main topics are agent-framework, agentic-ai, agentic-rag, agents.

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Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multi

Is haystack open source?

haystack is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

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Yes. haystack is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

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haystack is available under the Apache-2.0 license.

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haystack is written mainly in Python.

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