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Frameworks ship tools.
THE RUNTIME FOR THE AGENT ERA
Orchestrate AI agents.
Ship code autonomously.
Animus dispatches, isolates, gates, and ships AI agent workflows from a single Rust binary. Define your team in YAML. Step away from the terminal.
$ animus queue "fix flaky billing test" ✓ worktree spawned0.4s ◐ implementrunning… claude ✓ implement4m 12s claude ◐ reviewrunning… codex ✓ review1m 48s advance ✓ test47s cargo test → ok ✓ merged to main0.2s
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§01 — THE PROBLEM
Frameworks ship tools.
Runtimes ship outcomes.
Multi-agent frameworks hand you primitives and walk away. None isolate state. None gate output. None rework on failure. None ship. Animus does all four — by default.
REQUIREMENT
FRAMEWORK A
FRAMEWORK B
CODEX MA
ANIMUS
ISOLATE STATE
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✓
GATE OUTPUT
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✓
REWORK ON FAILURE
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✓
SHIP TO MAIN
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✓
§02 — THE THESIS
The model is a config flag.
Every model plugs into Animus through the same provider protocol. Swap per phase. Swap per quarter. Swap the day a new model ships. Workflows and output contracts compound across generations.
CLAUDE
opus
ACTIVE
CODEX
gpt-5
○ swap-ready
GEMINI
3-pro
○ swap-ready
OPENAI
o-series
○ swap-ready
OPENCODE
local
○ swap-ready
OAI-COMPAT
any
○ swap-ready
§03 — THE PRODUCT
Queue. Isolate. Contract. Ship.
§04 — THE DOCS
Explore the surface.
PART A.001 · START HERE
GETTING STARTED
Install the binary, create a task, run your first workflow.
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PART A.002 · CONCEPTS
HOW IT WORKS
Workflows, subject dispatch, the daemon, agents & phases.
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PART A.003 · GUIDES
OPERATE IT
Task management, model routing, daemon ops, CI/CD.
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PART B.001 · REFERENCE
CLI + YAML
Command tree, workflow schema, MCP tools, config.
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PART B.002 · ARCHITECTURE
KERNEL + FLAVORS
The load-bearing design: a kernel and a default flavor.
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PART B.003 · INTERNALS
UNDER THE HOOD
Scheduler, workflow runner, state machines, persistence.
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05 — INSTALL
One paste. Single binary.
Rust-only. No runtime, no containers. You'll be running workflows in about a minute.
$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/launchapp-dev/animus-cli/main/scripts/install.sh | bash