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# Bot OS Protocol • AI Agent SDK

> BotOSProtocol: Protocol for BotOS — multi-platform bot orchestrator.

# BotOSProtocol

> Defined in the [**protocols**](../modules/protocols) module.

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Protocol for BotOS — multi-platform bot orchestrator.

BotOS manages multiple Bot instances across different messaging
platforms (Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, etc.) with a single
unified lifecycle.

Hierarchy::

BotOS  (multi-platform orchestrator)
└── Bot  (single platform)
└── Agent / AgentTeam / AgentFlow  (AI brain)

Implementations live in the `praisonai-bot` package (`praisonai_bot.bots`).

## Methods

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  <Card title="is_running()" icon="function" href="../functions/BotOSProtocol-is_running">
    Whether the orchestrator is currently running.
  </Card>

  <Card title="start()" icon="function" href="../functions/BotOSProtocol-start">
    Start all registered bots concurrently.
  </Card>

  <Card title="stop()" icon="function" href="../functions/BotOSProtocol-stop">
    Gracefully stop all running bots.
  </Card>

  <Card title="add_bot()" icon="function" href="../functions/BotOSProtocol-add_bot">
    Register a Bot instance for orchestration.
  </Card>

  <Card title="list_bots()" icon="function" href="../functions/BotOSProtocol-list_bots">
    List platform names of all registered bots.
  </Card>

  <Card title="remove_bot()" icon="function" href="../functions/BotOSProtocol-remove_bot">
    Remove a registered bot by platform name.
  </Card>

  <Card title="get_bot()" icon="function" href="../functions/BotOSProtocol-get_bot">
    Get a registered bot by platform name.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Source

<Card title="View on GitHub" icon="github" href="https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/blob/main/src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/bots/protocols.py#L1312">
  `praisonaiagents/bots/protocols.py` at line 1312
</Card>