Orreth is not a framework you embed in your code. It is a runtime your agents live in — and it is exactly two elements:
The machine
One small always-running engine program — the kernel, orrethd — that
keeps the permanent record: every
action is a signed record, every agent and tool carries an unforgeable
identity for life, every permission only ever narrows as it is delegated,
and every model call is metered against the name that spent it. The kernel
verifies signatures but cannot create them — private keys never enter
it. One binary runs any tier of a deployment; a small JSON profile tells
it which tier to be.
Capabilities
The purposes built on top — by you, or by Orreth itself: agents, tools,
and complete workflows. A capability is declarations, never code in the
kernel’s path: it is installed by dropping a folder, rendered by the
console without loading foreign JavaScript, and lifecycled (start, stop,
retire) by a human’s word. Remove the folder and it is gone; its records
remain.
Frameworks — LangGraph, AgentField, CrewAI — help you write an agent. Orreth is where that agent lives. An agent built with any framework joins an Orreth deployment through a human-approved gate, receives a permanent identity, works under permissions that can only narrow, files signed records of everything it does, and stops at a human gate before anything with consequence completes. Your existing agents keep their framework; Orreth supplies the institution around them — identity, memory, governance, metering, and audit.
What actually exists when Orreth runs — the three bodies of the system,
what a universe, an ecosystem, and a floor really are, and why the whole
topology is data you can rewrite.
Read the anatomy →
What works today
A docs site that only tells you what’s proven. This page is maintained
from the project’s standing register of claims, evidence, and honest
gaps — including what does not exist yet.
See the register →
Glossary
Orreth’s console speaks a compact working vocabulary. Every term, in the
machine’s own plain-English definitions — the same dictionary the live
console serves.
Open the glossary →
Quickstart
A running three-tier universe with a console in your browser, in ten
minutes, from one script. The rest of the Build track — first world,
first capability, the SDK — and the Reference track are being written
now, each page shipping with the packaging work that makes it true.
Run the quickstart →
A captured moment of a real running Orreth universe is public at
demo.orreth.ai — every view a real screenshot-grade
snapshot of the console, from the live record of the machine that produced it.