AgentScope Review — Self-Hosted AI Tool
Our review of AgentScope — features, strengths, and trade-offs.
AgentScope 2.0 is a production-ready, easy-to-use agent framework from Alibaba/ModelScope with 27K+ GitHub stars. It provides essential abstractions for building, running, and monitoring AI agents at scale. Key features include a unified event system for real-time frontend communication, a fine-grained permission system for controlling tool access, multi-tenancy and multi-session service for production deployments, workspace and sandbox support for executing code in isolated environments using local Docker or E2B backends, and an extensible middleware system for customizing the agent reasoning loop. AgentScope also supports MCP servers, RAG, long-term memory via Mem0 and ReMe, and multi-agent teams. It comes with a built-in web UI for monitoring and interacting with agents, and supports all major LLM providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and local models via Ollama and vLLM.