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Hi everyone, I’m Vincenzo, the founder of Colibrì. Today, we are adding a new mode to Colibrì called "Brio," accessible via both the TUI and the web interface. We were all impressed by Jev and its potential, so I decided to create a mode that allows you to use any model supported by Colibrì—in both chat and Brio modes. Brio returns a probability for each choice and the entropy of that distribution. No output tokens are generated, but inference work still takes place: the engine processes the context and scores the provided option tokens. You can use it via the dashboard, the terminal, or the POST /v1/brio endpoint.

Vurp means octopus in Taranto dialect

Hi HN — I built openvurp because I was already using AI agents, but I couldn’t find a setup that made them fast and natural enough to use in my personal life.

For a while I had been thinking about a “wallet” of agents: one place where I could keep agents with specific jobs, choose a different engine for each one, and let them ask one another for help when a question falls outside their role.

In openvurp, each agent has a name, a job, and an engine. It runs on your computer, but the engine can be local or remote — Codex, Claude, Ollama, or an API. Agents can use real tools such as the shell, files, web search, and a browser, while their conversations and memory remain as files you can inspect and delete.

The project is still early. I’m sharing it because I want to understand whether this way of organizing agents could be useful outside my own setup too.

Why “Vurp”? In the dialect of Taranto it means octopus. I chose the name as a small tribute to Taranto, my hometown and its sea.