AWS Engineers Open-Source Pizza Bot, an Apache 2.0 Inbox for Background AI Agents

Amazon Web Services engineers open-sourced Pizza Bot on September 10, 2026 as a local-first desktop and web inbox for AI agents that keep working after the human walks away. The New Stack reports the project now lives under the community GitHub organization pizza-bot-app, separate from any AWS-managed service, with no AWS support SLA. The repository license is Apache License 2.0.

Creators Joseph Dolivo and Igor Fil frame the product around a single assumption quoted in the launch materials: “The interface assumes you are not watching.” Completed jobs land as unread threads; anything that needs a human decision is queued for action; an Activity panel shows specialist handoffs, tool use, and progress.

Runtime and clients

According to The New Stack and the project README, Pizza Bot’s agent runtime uses LangChain’s DeepAgents harness on LangGraph, checkpointing state so a run can pause for approval, survive a disconnected client, and resume later. Application state—threads, checkpoints, memories, attachments—stays under a local data root (default ~/.pizza-bot-oss) in SQLite and ordinary files.

The same React experience ships as an Electron desktop app, a browser client, and a terminal CLI talking to a local or remote api-server over HTTP/SSE. Model providers include Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenAI, OpenRouter, and Ollama. Operators can add MCP servers and Agent Skills; a bundled browser skill uses Playwright MCP. The api-server can run on an always-on host or in a container so scheduled agents continue while a laptop is closed.

From internal Amazon tool to community OSS

Dolivo’s LinkedIn notes, cited by The New Stack, say more than 2,000 people inside Amazon used earlier versions before the rebuild as a standalone community project. The README still credits Amazon development history while emphasizing self-hosted operation and explicit local folder grants under Settings.

Primary sources are The New Stack’s September 10 feature and the Apache-2.0 repository at github.com/pizza-bot-app/pizza-bot.