# second-brain shipped an update > Source: > Published: 2026-07-17 23:35:23+00:00 # second-brain Second Brain is an agentic framework that acts as an operating system, using local file intelligence, workflow automation, and LLMs to complete tasks and communicate over multiple modalities and ## About second-brain Atlas Cloud is a full-modal AI inference platform that gives developers a single AI API to access video generation, image generation, and LLM APIs. Instead of managing multiple vendor integrations, you connect once and get unified access to 300+ curated models across all modalities. Check out Atlas Cloud's new coding plan promotion for more budget-friendly API access: https://www.atlascloud.ai/console/coding-plan For an example of what Second Brain can do, visit https://second-brain.art! It's an interactive art exhibition. The kernel is deliberately small: it boots, runs the agent turn, persists conversations in SQLite, loads and unloads plugins, keeps the lightweight Timekeeper event clock running, and gets out of the way. Everything else — file indexing and retrieval, web search, scheduling workflows, Telegram, durable memory, file-editing and shell tools, heavy file parsers — arrives as packages you install from the store. It is a programmable conversation runtime that you (and agents) extend while it is run… second-brain is an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 581 stars on GitHub. It was last updated in July 2026. ``` pip install -r requirements.txt ``` ## second-brain vs. the alternatives [All workflow & productivity →](/category/workflow-agents)