--- title: Pizza Bot: Open-Source Inbox for Background AI Agents description: AWS engineers open-sourced Pizza Bot, a self-hosted, Apache 2.0-licensed application that gives AI agents an email-style inbox for running long, asynchronous... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pizza-bot-open-source-inbox-for-background-ai-agents-cv5gidvyf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Pizza Bot: Open-Source Inbox for Background AI Agents | daily.dev og:description: AWS engineers open-sourced Pizza Bot, a self-hosted, Apache 2.0-licensed application that gives AI agents an email-style inbox for running long, asynchronous... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pizza-bot-open-source-inbox-for-background-ai-agents-cv5gidvyf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cv5gidvYf.png og:image:alt: Pizza Bot: Open-Source Inbox for Background AI Agents og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Pizza Bot: Open-Source Inbox for Background AI Agents **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 3 min read · 6 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AWS engineers open-sourced Pizza Bot, a self-hosted, Apache 2.0-licensed application that gives AI agents an email-style inbox for running long, asynchronous background tasks. Agents can be triggered by schedules or webhooks, delegate subtasks to specialist agents, request human approval before consequential actions, and notify users when done. The tool supports multiple model providers, MCP servers, and Agent Skills, and keeps state, threads, checkpoints, and credentials locally on the user's machine, sending data only to configured providers and explicitly enabled MCP servers. The project grew out of an internal AWS passion project called JoeBot, started in 2025 to automate CRM logging, and was inspired by LangChain's concept of 'ambient agents.' Hacker News reactions were largely positive toward the asynchronous, local-first design, though some questioned whether the open-source version could match the integrations ecosystem of the internal tool, and noted the crowded field of similar projects. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is Pizza Bot and how does it manage background AI agent tasks? Pizza Bot is a self-hosted, Apache 2.0-licensed open-source application that gives AI agents an email-style inbox for long-running background work. Agents can run scheduled or webhook-triggered tasks, delegate subtasks to specialist agents, pause for human approval before consequential actions, and notify users when complete. Work is organized into All, Unread, and Action queues, with an Activity panel tracking delegated tasks. _Developers building agentic workflows can track new tools like Pizza Bot shaping async AI agent design on daily.dev._ ### Where does Pizza Bot store agent data and what gets sent externally? Pizza Bot persists agent state, threads, checkpoints, attachments, and logs locally in a user-controlled folder, with credentials stored in the OS secret store. Data is sent only to the configured model provider and explicitly enabled MCP servers; the authors note that enabled MCP servers can act on the user's behalf, so users should consider that before installing one. _Teams weighing local-first versus cloud AI agent tools can follow privacy-focused designs like this on daily.dev._ ### Where did the idea for Pizza Bot originate? Pizza Bot began as a side project called JoeBot, started in April 2025 by an AWS principal technologist to automate tedious CRM logging for technical users; demand from non-technical colleagues pushed it to evolve into a broader tool. The team also cites LangChain's concept of 'ambient agents' as inspiration for the asynchronous, inbox-style design. _Anyone exploring the growing space of ambient and background AI agents can follow related projects on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Users flock to open source Moltbot for always-on AI, despite major risks](https://daily.dev/posts/users-flock-to-open-source-moltbot-for-always-on-ai-despite-major-risks-9iqizak5z) · Ars Technica · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [What a pizza-ordering hackathon reveals about connecting AI agents to the Web](https://daily.dev/posts/what-a-pizza-ordering-hackathon-reveals-about-connecting-ai-agents-to-the-web-qti5eozxo) · Brave · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How Block manages its fleet of AI coding agents from Slack](https://daily.dev/posts/how-block-manages-its-fleet-of-ai-coding-agents-from-slack-pmztrh2b7) · The New Stack · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#mcp](https://daily.dev/tags/mcp) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/pizza-bot-open-source-inbox-for-background-ai-agents-cv5gidvyf) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Pizza Bot: Open-Source Inbox for Background AI Agents","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/pizza-bot-open-source-inbox-for-background-ai-agents-cv5gidvyf","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/pizza-bot-open-source-inbox-for-background-ai-agents-cv5gidvyf"},"datePublished":"2026-10-04T06:43:53.038Z","dateModified":"2026-10-04T06:44:14.395Z","description":"AWS engineers open-sourced Pizza Bot, a self-hosted, Apache 2.0-licensed application that gives AI agents an email-style inbox for running long, asynchronous...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c1d735c896a5896703cd48ba1e97791c?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c1d735c896a5896703cd48ba1e97791c?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"InfoQ","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"InfoQ","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/afc3bced3e1e4b188dd9127017a60e0c","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/infoq"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/pizza-bot-open-source-inbox-for-background-ai-agents-cv5gidvyf","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":6},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"open-source,aws,ai-agents,mcp","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"InfoQ","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/infoq"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Pizza Bot: Open-Source Inbox for Background AI Agents"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/pizza-bot-open-source-inbox-for-background-ai-agents-cv5gidvyf#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is Pizza Bot and how does it manage background AI agent tasks?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Pizza Bot is a self-hosted, Apache 2.0-licensed open-source application that gives AI agents an email-style inbox for long-running background work. 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