daemon

A BEAM-like substrate for durably running and supervising agents: a daemon-core engine, a durable activation/supervision host, and an orchestration layer, organized as a Cargo workspace.

• Workspace layout & rationale: docs/daemon-workspace-layout.md
• Authoritative specs: docs/specs/
• Research / how we got here: design inputs are kept outside this workspace in the companion daemon-hermes archive; specs in this repo are the normative source.
• The engine spec lives with its crate: crates/engine/daemon-core/docs/

crates/
  contracts/      daemon-common · daemon-protocol · daemon-supervision · daemon-api
  engine/         daemon-core · daemon-context-lcm
  memory/         daemon-mnemosyne
  substrate/      daemon-store · daemon-activation · daemon-provision · daemon-credentials
                  daemon-telemetry · daemon-host · daemon-transport · daemon-schedule
  providers/      daemon-providers · daemon-infer · daemon-models
  adapters/       daemon-acp · daemon-http · daemon-mcp-client · daemon-delivery
                  daemon-ingest · daemon-matrix
  coprocessor/    daemon-metta · daemon-metta-client · daemon-pytool · daemon-pytool-client
  orchestration/  daemon-orchestration
  node/           daemon-node
  skills/         daemon-skills
tools/         shell · fs · tkx (stub) · orchestrate · cron · web · browser · metta
               todo · clarify · skill
bindings/      daemon-core-ffi · daemon-ffi
bins/          daemon · daemon-cli
tests/         daemon-conformance
xtask/

cargo check --workspace

The default workspace gate checks the Rust surfaces that do not require heavyweight local-inference or MeTTa engine features. Optional worker engines remain feature-gated in their own crates.

The workspace contains the durable host, reference engine, NodeApi/CLI surfaces, FFI bindings, chat and HTTP adapters, local/remote provider wiring, memory/LCM layers, and conformance tests. Some long-tail surfaces are intentionally still stubs or partial ports, notably daemon-tool-tkx, parts of Mnemosyne, and deferred remote-host transport. Profiles pin panic = "unwind" because catch-unwind-based supervision is void under panic = "abort".

Copyright (c) 2026 Jarrad Hope.

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

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Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

See NOTICE for third-party attributions covering the optional, feature-gated engine lanes (llama.cpp, hyperon).