AI AGENTS
Motia
by MotiaDev
Overview
Code-first backend framework for building APIs, background jobs, workflows, automations, and AI-agent-oriented systems across TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python.
Details
Motia is described in its official docs as a unified backend framework for APIs, background jobs, workflows, AI agents, streaming, state management, and observability. Its core model is built around Steps, and the ecosystem docs explain that Motia provides Steps, typed schemas, CLI scaffolding, and build tooling on top of iii-sdk while iii is the runtime. The official site currently states that Motia is winding down and points users to iii.dev as what comes next.
When to Use
Use Motia to study or maintain code-first backend systems that combine APIs background jobs durable workflows AI agents streaming and observability around a Step-based model. Use it when evaluating MotiaDev’s framework concepts such as Steps typed schemas CLI scaffolding build tooling state management and streaming. Review it when exploring AI-agent workflow examples from the official examples repository including research assistants Google ADK agents and multi-agent systems.
Getting Started
- Start with the current official site at https://www.motia.dev/ because it states that Motia is winding down and points users to iii.dev.
- Read the docs at https://www.motia.dev/docs for the Step-based framework model covering APIs
- workflows
- AI agents
- streaming
- state management
- and observability.
- Follow https://www.motia.dev/docs/getting-started/quick-start
- which describes installing iii
- installing motia-cli from the MotiaDev GitHub install script
- creating a Motia project
- and running a first workflow.
- Inspect https://github.com/MotiaDev/motia and https://github.com/MotiaDev/motia-examples before adopting or maintaining a Motia project.
Key Features
- •Code-first backend framework for TypeScript
- •JavaScript
- •and Python
- •Step-based model for APIs
- •background jobs
- •workflows
- •AI agents
- •streaming
- •and observability
- •Typed schemas
- •CLI scaffolding
- •and build tooling on top of iii-sdk
- •Official getting-started guides for quick start and building a first Motia app
- •Official examples repository with AI-agent-oriented examples
Capabilities
- •api-development
- •background-jobs
- •durable-workflows
- •event-workflows
- •automation
- •ai-agent-workflows
- •streaming
- •state-management
- •observability
- •cli-scaffolding
Last updated Jun 19, 2026