GoKawiilAmazon open-sources Pizza Bot, an inbox app for managing background AI agents
Amazon has released Pizza Bot, an open-source tool under Apache 2.0 that organizes long-running AI agent tasks into an inbox-style interface. Completed tasks land in an 'Unread' queue while tasks needing human approval land in an 'Action' queue, letting users start work and check back later rather than watching agents run in real time.
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As AI agents increasingly handle multi-step tasks that run for minutes or hours, tools like Pizza Bot address a real workflow gap: managing and triaging many concurrent agent runs without babysitting each one. By supporting multiple model providers and open-sourcing the code, Amazon is positioning this as infrastructure other developers can build on rather than a proprietary product.
- Pizza Bot organizes async AI agent work into Unread and Action queues, similar to email triage.
- It supports checkpointed runs that survive disconnects, plus cron/webhook triggers and subagent delegation.
- The tool works across desktop, web, and CLI, and supports Bedrock, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenAI, OpenRouter, and Ollama.
Source: github.com, 2026-09-15
Published there as: “Show HN: Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in the background”
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