Agentic-Nets

Design, run, observe, and continuously improve governed autonomous processes in any domain.

Agentic-Nets is a domain-general backend for designing, operating, observing, and continuously improving governed autonomous processes.

Any process that can be represented as typed state, transitions, context, evidence, and authority boundaries can be modeled, automated, historically analyzed, and progressively optimized with Agentic-Nets. Personas are the most approachable starting point: create a developer, health coach, analyst, domain expert, reviewer, or complete team, then give it durable context, bounded tools, explicit handoffs, and a history you can learn from.

Agentic-Nets puts personas, LLM calls, deterministic steps, tools, memory, approvals, schedules, and remote execution into formal Petri nets. Places hold typed JSON state; transitions do the work; every change leaves an event-sourced trail. Observability is part of the runtime model, not an add-on: you can inspect what happened, why it happened, which evidence was used, how long it took, and where a persona or process should improve.

Use the visual Studio, an MCP client, the CLI, or the Claude Code plugin to build one guarded persona, explore small starter patterns, run the Safe Product Team example, install a complete team package, or coordinate a network of long-running systems. The same runtime mixes server-hosted models, local models, connected MCP models, and unattended Claude Code or Codex sessions without hiding control flow or history in a chat transcript. Studio's Protocol gives the readable team narrative; the event trail preserves the complete evidence underneath it.

At a glance

Question	Answer
What is it?	A domain-general backend and Petri-net runtime for governed personas, workflows, tools, memory, remote execution, and evidence.
Why does it exist?	To make autonomous processes inspectable, permission-scoped, historically analyzable, continuously improvable, and reusable instead of hidden inside chat state.
Can I use my own model?	Yes. Run server-side with Claude, OpenAI, or Ollama; host lanes from the CLI/MCP process; or let the connected MCP model execute selected AI transitions through external fires.
What is public in this repo?	Licensed public source for the gateway, executor, vault, CLI, chat bot, MCP server, blobstore, tool containers, deployment, and monitoring.
What is closed source?	The node, master, and Studio GUI runtime images used by the full stack. They ship from Docker Hub under the Proprietary EULA.
Current release	v2.42.0. Beta: suitable for evaluation, local experiments, and early adopters comfortable with a fast-moving stack.

The product in one loop

Design -> Run -> Observe -> Review -> Propose change -> Approve -> Version
       -> Verify -> Compare -> Crystallize

Stage	What Agentic-Nets provides
Design	Named personas and teams, typed places, seven transition types, durable context, policies, links, tools, and authority boundaries.
Run	Deterministic workflows plus AI judgment from a server LLM, a connected MCP model, an unattended Claude Code/Codex session, or ordinary commands and APIs.
Observe	An immutable event trail, token state, transition timing, tool evidence, structured status, and a readable Protocol narrative.
Review	Model-wide inspection through the domain-neutral Model Steward, with bottlenecks, failures, rework, cost, wait time, and risk made visible.
Improve	Approval-gated, versioned changes to personas, prompts, context, nets, tools, and policies, followed by evidence-based comparison.
Reuse	NetHub packages for personas, teams, nets, context systems, tools, catalogs, models, and complete operating patterns.

This makes Agentic-Nets useful well beyond software delivery. The reusable substrate is the same for research, operations, support, education, finance, health coaching, logistics, or another domain: explicit state, controlled transitions, evidence, permissions, and a feedback loop.

Domain-general does not mean domain-omniscient. A useful autonomous process still needs domain context, success criteria, trustworthy data and integrations, bounded tools and authority, human or policy approvals, and validation matched to its risk. Agentic-Nets provides the governed runtime and historical evidence; it does not silently self-rewrite or remove responsibility from the operator.

The current platform in five points

1. External execution / bring your own model. Mark an llm or agent transition as external, or apply that policy to a net, session, or model. Master leaves it alone; an MCP client leases the exact prepared prompt, supplies the answer with its own model, and hands it back to the normal emit-and-consume pipeline.
2. Installable agent teams. Agent Hub currently ships seven starting templates: Safe Product Team, Model Steward, Dev Crew, Research Analyst, Health Coach, Context Curator, and Crystallizer. Model profiles can compose the right resident agents and context systems automatically.
3. NetHub packages whole systems. Publish and install nine artifact kinds: nets, sessions, models, agent teams, context systems, tool nets, individual tools, catalogs, and blobs. Dependencies are bundled and credentials are scrubbed.
4. Governance is enforced at runtime. Ten positional capability flags (rwxhludcts), named capability profiles, tool allowlists, resource scopes, Vault-backed credentials, a fleet-wide LLM freeze, and an automatic spend breaker bound what an agent can do.
5. One MCP server exposes the platform. @agenticnets/mcp provides a focused curated workflow surface plus an optional native catalog used by in-net agents. Desktop Lite defaults to curated; server installs retain both for compatibility.

One complete worked example is the Safe Product Team: Product Manager, Architect, Developer, Reviewer, Release Guardian, and Chronicle over a deterministic backlog/review backbone. Repository policy is explicit, release effects are approval-gated, every stage writes structured status, and meaningful milestones appear in Protocol. Invoke the MCP prompt start-safe-product-team. It is an example, not a domain boundary: the domain-neutral Model Steward reviews any model's nets, running processes, event evidence, risks, bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities without modifying them.

One net, two execution locations: an external MCP agent hands structured findings to a master-run LLM lane.

Watch the product preview on YouTube: agentic-nets preview

If prompt-based agents feel powerful but structurally weak, this is the missing layer:

• Agents live in nets. Context is structured state, not a fragile chat session.
• Nets talk to nets. Teams, tools, approvals, memory, and pipelines become explicit handoffs.
• Everything stays inspectable. Tokens, tool calls, events, and emissions remain queryable and replayable.
• The same model scales up. Build one guarded developer agent or a whole product runtime with the same primitives.

Start here

Goal	Link
Fastest local creator/operator setup (no Docker)	Desktop Lite
Run the production-like Docker stack	Install in 5 minutes
Bring your own model through MCP	Connect over MCP
Follow the release velocity	CHANGELOG.md and release tags
See live systems already running on Agentic-Nets	See it running in production
Watch the live safe-teams net	Public read-only live demo
Understand the core model	What makes this different and ARCHITECTURE.md
Read the whitepaper — the harness control system, complete domain automation	docs/whitepaper/the-harness-control-system.html (view rendered)
Drive a stack from Claude Code	Drive it from Claude Code
Connect any MCP client	MCP server
Contribute to the public repo	CONTRIBUTING.md and issues
Ask questions or discuss use cases	GitHub Discussions or forum.agentic-nets.com
Report a security issue	SECURITY.md

Licensing note. Agentic-Nets is a hybrid stack. Public components in this repository are licensed under BSL 1.1 and convert to Apache 2.0 on 2030-02-22. The orchestration core ships as closed-source Docker Hub images and desktop release assets under the Proprietary EULA. See licensing before production use.

Quick local run

This starts the lightweight local stack from Docker Hub. Use the longer install section if you want monitoring, local public-service builds, Ollama cloud-model login details, or troubleshooting notes.

git clone https://github.com/alexejsailer/agentic-nets.git
cd agentic-nets/deployment

cp .env.template .env
# Optional for master-run llm/agent lanes: choose one server provider.
# LLM_PROVIDER=claude + ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=...
# LLM_PROVIDER=openai + OPENAI_API_KEY=...
# LLM_PROVIDER=ollama for the bundled Ollama container
#
# You can instead leave AI lanes stopped/external and let a connected MCP
# model execute them. See "Connect over MCP" below.

docker compose -f docker-compose.hub-only.no-monitoring.yml up -d

cat data/gateway/jwt/admin-secret
open http://localhost:4200

Desktop Lite (macOS + Windows + Linux) — no Docker or server LLM

This is the fastest local persona/team creator: install one package, connect Codex, Claude Code, or another MCP client, and choose a small starter pattern, invoke start-safe-product-team for the product-delivery example, or ask for one developer, domain expert, reviewer, or another specialist. Agentic-Nets gives those personas durable context, task/result places, deterministic tools, schedules, review hand-offs, readable Protocol reporting, and an event-sourced audit trail. The bundled server LLM is disabled by default; interactive reasoning comes from the connected client. A persona can also run unattended through an installed Claude Code/Codex CLI. No Docker daemon, Java or Node installation, API key, or Ollama process is required.

Desktop Lite is loopback-only and is not the recommended production deployment. Use the Docker/server deployment for remote access, clustering, monitoring, or production lifecycle controls.

Download the latest release from GitHub Releases. The current Desktop Lite packages are:

Platform	Package
macOS, Apple Silicon	AgenticNetOS 2.42.0 DMG
Windows, x64	AgenticNetOS 2.42.0 MSI
Debian/Ubuntu, amd64	AgenticNetOS 2.42.0 DEB
Debian/Ubuntu, arm64	AgenticNetOS 2.42.0 DEB
Fedora/RHEL, amd64	AgenticNetOS 2.42.0 RPM
Fedora/RHEL, arm64	AgenticNetOS 2.42.0 RPM

Verify the package against SHA256SUMS.txt and its SHA256SUMS.txt.sig. The version-specific links above reflect v2.42.0; use Releases for newer or older versions.

Installation notes:

• macOS: AgenticNetOS-<version>-macos-<arch>.dmg — open, accept the license, drag to Applications. Current builds are unsigned, so macOS refuses the first open: right-click the app → "Open", or allow it under System Settings → Privacy & Security → "Open Anyway".
• Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install ./AgenticNetOS-<version>-linux-<arch>.deb, then run /opt/agenticnetos/bin/AgenticNetOS. On a server without a desktop it runs headless (no tray, same services).
• Fedora/RHEL: the matching .rpm.
• Windows: run AgenticNetOS-<version>-windows-x64.msi. Current builds are unsigned, so SmartScreen may warn on first run ("More info" then "Run anyway"). Upgrades install over the old version in place; the msiexec-level upgrade path (previous release installed, data preserved, app serving afterwards) is tested in CI before every release.

Build the installer yourself: clone this repository and run agentic-net-desktop/scripts/build.sh (macOS/Linux) or agentic-net-desktop\scripts\build-windows.ps1. The primary requirements are a JDK 21+ and Node.js 22; see the Desktop Lite guide for the small platform packaging prerequisites. Closed node/master/GUI binaries come from matching checksum-verified release assets, with Docker Hub images only as a fallback.

Then: use "Connect Codex (copy config)" or "Connect Claude Code (copy command)" in the tray and ask the client to read agenticnets://docs/starter-patterns, then choose the smallest matching example. Use agenticnets://docs/safe-product-team for the worked product-delivery team or agenticnets://docs/personas for a custom specialist/domain. With no server provider, master skips provider-backed AI lanes rather than failing them, and the connected model can serve them. For unattended personas, use an agent transition with llmMode:"bash" and binary:"claude"|"codex"; for one-shot headless work use a command lane with the prompt on stdin. Master still owns token binding, emission, accounting, and the event trail. Data lives in ~/.agenticos/ and survives updates. The bundled command executor is eligible for every model and activates that model on demand after its first command lane, so newly created domains need no executor configuration. Full workflow and limitations: Desktop Lite.

Updating: quit the app, install the new package over the old one (macOS: drag-replace in Applications; Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install ./<new>.deb), relaunch. All data and settings live in ~/.agenticos/ and survive updates — the app itself is stateless. The tray notifies you when a new release is out.

Everything binds to localhost by default. The bundled node, master and gui binaries are covered by the Proprietary EULA; the rest of the bundle is built from this repository under BSL 1.1.

See it running in production

Not slideware — these are live systems, each one Agentic-Nets running a real harness end to end:

• forum.agentic-nets.com — a real product forum. A feature request posted here is picked up by a virtual team net, triaged, built, tested, deployed, and reported back on the thread — automatically, with every lifecycle milestone posted as it happens.
• gitanalytics.agentic-nets.com — the actual product that team is building: a live git-commit-analytics service whose new endpoints are shipped by agents, not people.
• The safe-teams net — the virtual agile team that connects the two: PM, Architect, Developer, QA, DevOps, and RTE agents coordinating through a single net — intake → design → code (a real command transition runs the coding CLI on an executor) → QA gate → deploy → status. One harness turns a forum post into a shipped, verified feature.
• agentic-nets.com — full documentation, the concept chapters, and the product tour.

Public read-only live demo

You can open the live Studio in monitor mode and watch the safe-teams net working without admin access:

1. Open agentic-nets.com/#/monitor.

2. Paste this public read-only demo token into the login form:

   07a9af1d663f899f79f08ca56050a977d41472e34cc0dd0f74abe046446f78f9
   

3. Keep Read-only access (no writes) enabled and log in.

The monitor view is scoped to the safe-teams model. It lets guests inspect the live net, token counts, event story, console, agenda, and current handoffs. Read-only sessions cannot edit nets, fire transitions, deploy changes, or use write-capable assistant personas.

You can still ask questions from the monitor. The chat is pinned to the Domain Expert (read-only) persona, which can explain what is happening in the visible system. The normal Universal Assistant, Workflow Builder, Persona, and other write-capable personas are reserved for authenticated Studio use.

What you can model with it

• Virtual developers with explicit permissions, memory, and execution boundaries.
• Virtual agile teams where planner, builder, reviewer, tester, and releaser agents coordinate through nets.
• Smart development tools that behave like reusable nets instead of throwaway prompts.
• Development pipelines that generate code, run checks, gate releases, and keep a durable audit trail.
• Product-level systems where backlog, QA, docs, incidents, and operations communicate as structured nets.
• Industry-specific operating models in software, finance, support, operations, research, healthcare, logistics, or any other domain that can be expressed as communicating nets.

Who this is for

• Builders who want agents to operate inside explicit state machines instead of loose prompt loops.
• Teams that need remote execution, approvals, secrets, and audit trails around autonomous work.
• Product engineers turning one-off agent workflows into reusable internal systems.
• Researchers and tool builders exploring Petri nets as a runtime model for agent coordination.

Probably not for you if

• You only need a one-off chat wrapper or a single scripted LLM call.
• You require every runtime component to be permissively licensed today.
• You need certified production software for regulated environments without doing your own validation.

Net of nets

One net can contain one or many agents. Many nets can also work together as a larger runtime: one can guard, one can gather, one can synthesize, one can execute, and all of them can exchange structured state through explicit flows instead of hidden prompt handoffs.

Example net

This simple crawler net shows the model in practice: places hold the state, http fetches, an agent transition categorizes content, a command transition runs remote work through an executor, and map plus pass transitions route results through the graph.

How behavior is modeled

Agentic-Nets uses seven transition types: pass, map, http, llm, agent, command, and link.

• agent transitions are the core runtime primitive. They can mimic almost any agent behavior or mode, but inside a governed net with explicit inputs, outputs, permissions, and memory boundaries.
• agent transitions can also adapt the net itself. If an agent has sufficient rights, it can read tokens in the net, create additional places and transitions, and extend the structure on demand instead of staying confined to a fixed graph.
• command transitions connect the net to remote execution. They define which executor can run a command remotely and bring the result back into the net as structured state.
• Deterministic and non-deterministic transitions coexist. Fixed logic can stay fixed, while open-ended reasoning stays open-ended, in the same runtime and on the same graph.
• This is what makes the model powerful across domains. A net can combine several cooperating agents with deterministic control flow, verification, remote execution, and cross-net communication.

Everything a harness needs — assembled by prompting

A production agent harness is all the scaffolding around the model: the tools it can call, the control flow between steps, the memory it keeps, where it runs, who is allowed to do what, and how you see what happened afterwards. Most teams hand-write that harness in code and re-write it for every new agent. Agentic-Nets gives you every one of those pieces as a first-class primitive you build by describing it — and each piece is inspectable, reusable, and governed by default.

A harness needs…	…you get it as (no code)
Tools	Reusable tool nets, digest-pinned Docker tools, HTTP services, executable scripts, and http / command transitions
Control flow	Nets wired from seven transition types — deterministic (pass / map / http) and AI (llm / agent) lanes on the same graph, with conditional routing and capacity gates
Agents	agent transitions, built-in assistant personas, and versioned Agent Hub teams installed as complete sessions
Memory & state	Places + tokens, typed context systems, and bounded context capsules queryable with ArcQL
Execution	Distributed executors that poll egress-only (firewall-friendly, deployable anywhere) and run scoped work in Docker
Governance	rwxhludcts capability roles, named profiles, tool allowlists, resource scopes, spend controls, and Vault secrets injected only at action time
Observability	Event-sourced history — replay the log, watch the live event-line, and ask what existed at any decision point
Reuse & export	Export inscriptions / PNML or use NetHub to move nets, sessions, models, agents, contexts, tools, catalogs, and blobs
Self-extension	Builder / Forge agents that create new places, transitions, and whole tool-nets inside the running system — the harness grows itself

Drive it your way — visual, conversational, or API-first

You are not tied to one model vendor or one interface.

In the Studio (the GUI). Watch every net, token, tool call, and event as it happens, and set the whole thing up by clicking — create models, sessions, nets, places, transitions, and inscriptions, deploy them, and adapt anything live. The Studio ships several built-in assistant agents — a Universal Assistant front door, a Workflow Builder that lays down and deploys whole nets from plain language, a Persona specialist-builder, plus operator and domain-expert roles — so you get the same "just describe it" power as an external coding agent, right inside the product. The Forge meta-agent builds new reusable tool-nets on demand.

From Claude Code (remote). The agenticos-control plugin (dedicated net-designer and net-operator agents, a control skill, and slash commands) plus Claude Code's Remote Control let you drive the entire system — build nets, run pipelines, even cut a release — from anywhere, including your phone, purely by chatting. See Drive it from Claude Code.

Bring your own model. Point the server at Claude, OpenAI, or a local Ollama model; host selected lanes in the CLI/MCP process; or mark AI lanes as external so the connected MCP model itself performs the reasoning. A single net can mix master-run and externally executed transitions while retaining the same state, emission, audit, and permission pipeline.

The nine production gaps Agentic-Nets closes

1. Invisible state. Every intermediate value is a token in a typed place, queryable with ArcQL while the net runs.
2. Vanishing memory. Memory is structured state. Agents read and write lessons through places and EMIT_MEMORY.
3. Weak observability. State is event-sourced. Replay the log, inspect reductions, and ask what existed at decision time.
4. No permission model. The rwxhludcts role ceiling, capability profiles, allowlists, and scopes gate tools at dispatch, not only in the prompt.
5. Secrets in the wrong place. Vault keeps credentials outside tokens and events, scoped per transition and injected only at action time.
6. Unsafe execution boundary. Remote executors poll over egress-only links; command work runs in scoped Docker tool containers.
7. Hard to explain why. Tool calls, results, emissions, and event trails keep provenance attached to the actual work.
8. Poor reusability. NetHub packages nine artifact kinds, their referenced dependencies, and an explicit token policy for installation elsewhere.
9. No reflexive model. Builder agents can create nets, places, arcs, transitions, and inscriptions inside the same runtime.

Why this matters for coding agents

Most coding agents disappear after they ship code. The prompt is gone, the checks are ad hoc, and the verification logic is not part of the product.

Agentic-Nets lets an agent do more than implement a feature. It can also create the surrounding operating structure: unit tests, integration tests, and even a dedicated verification net that stays in the system and can be reused against future changes. That turns one-off AI output into durable runtime structure and addresses some of the biggest weaknesses of coding agents: weak handoffs, fragile memory, and missing long-term verification.

Full docs and install chapter: agentic-nets.com (see also the Install chapter in-repo).

BETA — USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. In active development; may contain bugs, incomplete features, and breaking changes. No warranty. See LICENSE.md and PROPRIETARY-EULA.md.

What's public, what's closed, and who can use it

Agentic-Nets ships as a hybrid stack — licensed public components in this repo plus closed-source core binaries distributed as Docker Hub images and desktop release assets. Read this before deploying.

Layer	What	License	Who can use it
Public components (source in this repo)	agentic-net-gateway, agentic-net-executor, agentic-net-vault, agentic-net-cli, agentic-net-chat, agentic-net-mcp, sa-blobstore, agentic-net-tools/, deployment/, monitoring/	BSL 1.1	Free for development, testing, personal, educational, and evaluation use. Commercial production use requires a commercial license. Converts to Apache 2.0 on 2030-02-22.
Closed source (Docker Hub images + desktop release assets; no source in this repo)	agentic-net-node, agentic-net-master, agentic-net-gui	Proprietary EULA	Free for personal, educational, evaluation, and non-commercial use. Commercial use requires contacting alexejsailer@gmail.com.

Both licenses include a strong NO WARRANTY / BETA disclaimer. Nothing here is certified for regulated environments out of the box — you are responsible for your own risk assessment. If you are unsure whether your intended use counts as commercial production, ask before deploying.

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Problem it solves

Prompts with tools get you started. Production agent systems need more than that: durable state, bounded permissions, visible handoffs, scoped execution, secret management, and a way to replay what happened after the chat has gone away.

Most agent frameworks solve the "how do I call an LLM" problem and leave the operating model to application code. Agentic-Nets makes that operating model explicit: agents read tokens from places, write tokens to places, call only the tools their role permits, and leave an event trail behind.

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Install in 5 minutes

You need Docker Desktop or Docker Engine with Compose v2. A server-side LLM backend is required only for AI lanes that master executes: choose Claude, OpenAI, or Ollama. External lanes can instead use the model in a connected MCP client, with no server API key. You do not need Java, Node.js, or Maven unless you want to build services from source.

Apple Silicon Macs can run the current Docker Hub images through Docker Desktop's linux/amd64 emulation. Docker may print platform-mismatch warnings on first start; that is expected unless multi-arch images have been published for your release.

# 1. Clone the public repo
git clone https://github.com/alexejsailer/agentic-nets.git
cd agentic-nets/deployment

# 2. Create your env file
cp .env.template .env

# 3. Optional: configure ONE provider for master-run llm/agent lanes:
#    Claude: LLM_PROVIDER=claude + ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...
#    Ollama: LLM_PROVIDER=ollama (bundled container — no host install required).
#            Default model: deepseek-v4-pro:cloud (routes through ollama.com,
#            requires a one-time login — see step 5). To run fully offline instead,
#            set OLLAMA_MODEL (and the HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW tiers) to a local tag
#            like llama3.2 before starting the stack.
#    OpenAI: LLM_PROVIDER=openai + OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...

# 4A. Start the full stack with monitoring
docker compose -f docker-compose.hub-only.yml up -d

# 4B. Or start the lighter stack without Grafana/Prometheus/Tempo
# docker compose -f docker-compose.hub-only.no-monitoring.yml up -d

# If startup says port 5001 is already allocated, edit .env and set:
# AGENTICNETOS_REGISTRY_PORT=5002
# Then rerun the same docker compose command.

# 5. If you chose Ollama, authenticate or pull the model into the bundled container:
#    (a) Default cloud model — one-time interactive login (see note below):
docker exec -it agenticnetos-ollama ollama signin
#    (b) OR, if you switched to a local model (e.g. llama3.2), pull it instead:
# docker exec agenticnetos-ollama ollama pull llama3.2

# 6. Optional: seed approved Docker tool images into the local registry.
#    Agents use these for crawler/RSS/search/Reddit/API helper containers.
docker compose -f docker-compose.hub-only.yml --profile tools run --rm agenticos-tool-seeder

# 7. Grab the admin secret the Studio login page asks for.
#    The gateway auto-generates it on first startup and bind-mounts it onto
#    the host — read it from the host (NOT from inside the container):
cat data/gateway/jwt/admin-secret

# 8. Open the Studio GUI and paste the secret into the login page
open http://localhost:4200

Where does the admin secret come from? agentic-net-gateway writes a random admin secret to deployment/data/gateway/jwt/admin-secret on its first start. Read that file on the host and paste the value into the Studio login page (tick Read-only access if you want a read-only JWT — same secret, the gateway mints a scoped token). CLI, chat, and executor mount the same file read-only and auto-acquire their JWTs, so you don't need to configure them. If you prefer a pinned value, set AGENTICOS_ADMIN_SECRET=<long-random-string> in .env before docker compose up -d — that string then becomes the login secret.

Where does the Ollama login token come from? ollama signin is a one-time pairing: it prints a URL + device code to the container logs, you open that URL in a browser, sign in to your ollama.com account, and approve the device. No token file to manage — credentials are stored inside the container at /root/.ollama/ and survive restarts (the ollama-data volume). If you prefer non-interactive auth, generate an API key at ollama.com/settings/keys and pass it: docker exec agenticnetos-ollama ollama signin <your-api-key>. Cloud-suffixed models (:cloud, :671b-cloud, etc.) route through ollama.com and can be rate-limited during long sessions — swap to a local tag if you hit 429 errors.

You don't write any code for the first run. Open the Universal Assistant in the Studio and ask "Help me build my first net." For write operations, switch to or invoke the Workflow Builder persona. It can create places, transitions, arcs, inscriptions, and deploy the result in the active model/session.

Prefer to use the model already connected to your MCP client? Start the stack, connect @agenticnets/mcp, and use set_external on one transition or at net, session, or model scope. list_external_fires shows which lanes are ready; prepare_external_fire and complete_external_fire execute the work through the connected model while master retains token binding, emissions, accounting, and the audit trail.

Compose choices

File	What it starts	Use it when
deployment/docker-compose.hub-only.yml	Complete local stack from Docker Hub, including monitoring	You want the production-like local setup
deployment/docker-compose.hub-only.no-monitoring.yml	Complete runtime stack from Docker Hub, no monitoring	You want a lighter laptop setup
deployment/docker-compose.yml	Closed-source core images from Docker Hub + public services built locally	You are developing this repo

The .env.template is fully commented. The most important variables are:

Variable	Purpose
AGENTICNETOS_VERSION	Docker Hub image tag. Release CI pins this.
AGENTICNETOS_BIND_ADDRESS	Defaults to 127.0.0.1 so published ports stay local.
LLM_PROVIDER	ollama, claude, openai, claude-code, or codex.
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY	Required only for those hosted providers.
OLLAMA_BASE_URL, OLLAMA_MODEL	Required for local Ollama.
OPENBAO_DEV_ROOT_TOKEN	Local Vault token. Change before exposing the stack.
AGENTICNETOS_NODE_DATA_DIR	Host directory for Node events and snapshots.
MASTER_OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER	Master traces are off by default (none) so its chatty poll loop can't flood Tempo. Set to otlp for end-to-end master→node tracing. Node always traces; master metrics always reach Prometheus.

Detailed install, env, verification, and troubleshooting: deployment/README.md.

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Observability — metrics, traces, and logs

The monitoring stack (started by docker-compose.hub-only.yml, or the standalone monitoring/docker-compose.yml; omitted by the no-monitoring compose) gives you three signals, all viewable in Grafana at http://localhost:3000 (admin/admin):

Signal	Backend	How it gets there
Metrics	Prometheus (:9090)	Each service exposes /actuator/prometheus; Prometheus scrapes it. Always on.
Traces	Tempo (:3200)	Services export OTLP to the OpenTelemetry Collector (:4318), which forwards to Tempo.
Logs	Loki (:3100)	Grafana Alloy tails every container's stdout and pushes to Loki.

Logging

Every service logs to stdout — so docker logs <container> (and Docker Desktop's log view) shows the live application log — and to a rolling file under deployment/data/logs/<service>/. All Java services share one logback configuration:

• Pattern: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS [thread] LEVEL logger [trace_id,span_id] - msg (the trace_id links a log line to its Tempo trace when tracing is on).
• Rollover: 50 MB per file, 7 daily archives, 500 MB total cap, gzip-compressed — bounded by default. Tune per service with the standard Spring properties logging.logback.rollingpolicy.max-file-size / .max-history / .total-size-cap.
• File path: ${LOG_PATH:-/tmp}/<service>.log; compose sets LOG_PATH=/app/logs and bind-mounts it to the host.

The Node/TS services (CLI, chat, MCP) print the same timestamped LEVEL format; diagnostics go to stderr (the CLI keeps stdout clean for command output, and the MCP server reserves stdout for the protocol), so Docker captures them without disturbing the wire format.

Centralized query. With the monitoring stack up, Grafana Alloy discovers every container via the Docker socket (mounted read-only — no application change) and ships stdout to Loki. In Grafana → Explore, pick the Loki datasource and query by label, e.g. {container="agenticnetos-master"} or {service="gateway"}. Loki is hard-capped out of the box (72 h retention, 5 MB/s ingest — see monitoring/config/loki.yaml) so it can't fill the disk. Loki listens on :3100; set LOKI_PORT to remap.

Tempo (distributed tracing)

Traces answer "what did this request touch, and where did the time go" across the executor → gateway → master → node hops. The flow is:

service (OTLP) ──▶ otel-collector :4318 ──▶ Tempo :3200 ──▶ Grafana (TraceQL / trace view)

Query traces in Grafana → Explore → Tempo datasource (TraceQL, or search by service/ duration). Because a log line carries its trace_id, you can pivot straight from a Loki log to the matching Tempo trace.

Two deliberate defaults keep tracing from overwhelming a laptop or the staging box:

• Master tracing is OFF by default. The master polls every transition every 2 s, which is by far the chattiest span source. Set MASTER_OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER=otlp to turn on end-to-end master→node tracing. The node always traces, and master metrics always reach Prometheus regardless.
• Tempo is capped (monitoring/config/tempo.yaml): 24 h block retention and a 5 MB/s ingestion rate limit (10 MB burst, 5 MB max per trace). These caps exist because an uncapped Tempo once spiraled to multi-core CPU and hundreds of GB on staging — raise them deliberately, not by accident.

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Drive it from Claude Code

The agenticos-control Claude Code plugin turns any Claude Code session into a full control surface for a running stack: inspect nets, read and edit places and tokens, call the designtime and runtime REST APIs, fire and diagnose transitions, author nets, drive the Universal Assistant / Persona / Forge personas, and export net diagrams. It is CLI-first (it uses the agenticos CLI when it is installed) with a curl fallback, and works both locally (direct to the services) and remotely (through the gateway's OAuth2, so you can drive the whole thing from anywhere, even your phone).

Install it. From any Claude Code session:

/plugin marketplace add alexejsailer/agentic-nets
/plugin install agenticos-control@agentic-nets

(Working from a local clone instead? /plugin marketplace add ./agentic-nets.)

Point it at your stack. The plugin auto-detects gateway mode when a secret is present, otherwise direct mode. For the local Docker stack (whose gateway is published on 127.0.0.1:8083), reuse the same admin secret the Studio login uses:

export AGENTICOS_GATEWAY_URL=http://localhost:8083
export AGENTICOS_GATEWAY_SECRET_FILE=deployment/data/gateway/jwt/admin-secret

For a same-network setup where master and node are reachable directly, set AGENTICOS_MASTER=http://localhost:8082 and AGENTICOS_NODE=http://localhost:8080 and leave the secret unset. Secrets are read only from an env var or a file, the JWT stays in-process, and nothing is ever printed or written to disk.

Use it. The plugin ships a skill, two agents (agenticos-net-designer, agenticos-net-operator), and slash commands:

Command	What it does
/agenticos-doctor	Preflight the connection (resolved mode/auth/targets + reachability, no secrets)
/agenticos-inspect <modelId> [sessionId] [netId]	Snapshot transitions and states, a session's nets, a net's places and live token counts
/agenticos-fire <modelId> <transitionId>	Fire a transition once (handles the stop/fire/start dance)
/agenticos-persona <universal|persona|...> <modelId> "<prompt>"	Drive a persona and stream its reply
/agenticos-forge <modelId> "<intent>"	Build a reusable tool-net from a plain-language intent
/agenticos-export <modelId> <sessionId> <netId>	Export a net to JSON or PNML (then render a diagram)

Or just describe what you want: the skill routes structural work to the designer agent and diagnosis to the operator agent. Full details, the REST/API reference, and the environment-variable table are in the plugin's own README.

Or connect over MCP — working memory, Agent Hub, and external execution

The agentic-net-mcp server exposes a running stack to any MCP client (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, or your own agent framework) over the Model Context Protocol. The client gets persistent working memory, a complete net workbench, Agent Hub and NetHub operations, and governed execution tools through one protocol.

• 164 tools in the default read-write surface. Start with 54 curated lowercase tools for common workflows, or drop to 110 native uppercase tools generated from the same catalog used by agent transitions inside the runtime.
• Memory that runs. memory_write / memory_recall use event-sourced places, and scheduled server-side transitions can distill raw captures into durable notes after the client disconnects.
• Build and operate full systems. Create models with standard, research, knowledge, or development profiles; install Agent Hub teams and context systems; publish or install NetHub packages; build nets; inspect live state; and diagnose transitions without shell access to the host.
• Two client-side execution paths. host_transition runs an unattended local provider loop. External fires instead let the connected model itself reason: list_external_fires, set_external, prepare_external_fire, complete_external_fire, and abandon_external_fire preserve master's normal binding, emission, accounting, permission, and idempotency rules.
• Controls that survive prompt injection. A model allowlist, readonly mode, capability profiles, per-fire tool grants and resource scopes, model pause, fleet-wide LLM freeze, and spend reporting are enforced by the runtime and gateway rather than merely described in a system prompt.

claude mcp add agenticnets \
  -e AGENTICOS_GATEWAY_URL=http://localhost:8083 \
  -e AGENTICOS_GATEWAY_SECRET_FILE="$PWD/data/gateway/jwt/admin-secret" \
  -e AGENTICOS_MODELS=my-memory \
  -- npx @agenticnets/mcp

Run that command from deployment/ after starting the stack. Then tell your assistant to "set up my working memory", "install the development profile", or "make the AI transitions in this session external." The full tool list, configuration, templates, hooks, and security model are in the server's own README.

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Release Notes

The active CHANGELOG.md tracks the current calendar quarter. Older quarters are archived under changelogs/ (index).

Agentic-Nets is a fast-moving beta. Between July 3 and July 25, 2026, the public repository recorded 23 version tags across 16 release days. Tags are not all equal in size, so the changelog, tests, and live demo are the useful evidence behind the cadence:

Release	Platform milestone
v2.33.0	Installable Agent Hub teams
v2.34.0	Context systems, typed relations, and semantic navigation
v2.35.0	Shared capability profiles and bounded context capsules across master and client hosts
v2.36.0	External fires, fleet-wide LLM freeze, and spend-breaker controls

Quarter	Highlights
2026 Q3 (current)	CHANGELOG.md
2026 Q2	Gateway/vault maturation, tool-net library + Forge, capability flags, glm-5.2:cloud default — archive
2026 Q1	First releases (v1.6.0 → v1.19.0), repo split, v1.2.0 launch — archive
2025 Q4	Pre-release: distributed execution, agent transitions, outbound-only architecture, designtime API — archive
2025 Q3	Pre-release: project foundations, multi-model architecture, NL→PNML, GUI editor — archive

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What makes this different

	Prompt-with-tools frameworks	Agentic-Nets
What can this agent see?	Whatever you paste into context	Only the tokens in its inbound places
What can this agent do?	Whatever tools you register	Only tools allowed by its rwxhludcts role ceiling, capability profile, allowlist, and resource scopes
Where do its outputs go?	Back to you, mixed with reasoning	Typed tokens in declared outbound places
What did it actually do?	Chat transcript	Token trail with full provenance
How does it get cheaper?	It doesn't	Crystallization — agent steps collapse into deterministic transitions
Where does the model run?	Usually wherever the framework is hosted	On master, in a local transition host, or in the connected MCP client, selectable down to one AI lane

The graph gives hallucination less room to become uncontrolled action: inputs, permissions, and outputs are explicit.

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Architecture

    CLIENTS AND WORKERS  (all authenticate via gateway-minted JWT)
  +--------------+  +--------------+  +--------------+  +---------------+
  | agentic-net  |  | agentic-net  |  | agentic-net  |  | agentic-net   |
  | gui (4200)   |  | cli          |  | chat         |  | executor      |
  | Closed core  |  | Public src   |  | (Telegram)   |  |  (8084)       |
  |              |  | + MCP        |  | Public src   |  | Public src    |
  +------+-------+  +------+-------+  +------+-------+  +------+--------+
         |                 |                 |                 |
         | JWT             | JWT             | JWT             | JWT *
         |                 |                 |                 |
         +-----------------+--------+--------+-----------------+
                                    |
                                    | (all client traffic funnels
                                    |  through the gateway;
                                    |  tokens minted from the
                                    |  admin secret auto-generated
                                    |  on first startup at
                                    |  data/gateway/jwt/admin-secret
                                    |  and mounted read-only by
                                    |  cli, chat, executor)
                                    v
                         +-------------------+
                         | agentic-net-      |   Public source (BSL 1.1)
                         | gateway (8083)    |   OAuth2 + JWT router
                         +---+------------+--+
                             |            |
                +------------v+         +-v---------------+
                | agentic-net |         | agentic-net     |   Closed source (Hub / desktop)
                | master      |<------->| node            |   orchestration + state engine
                |  (8082)     |         |  (8080)         |
                +--+--------+-+         +-----------------+
                   |        |
                   |        |   BACKEND SERVICES
                   |        |   (master-internal,
                   |        |    not client-exposed)
                   |        |
          +--------v--+  +--v-----------+
          | agentic-  |  | sa-blobstore |   Public source (BSL 1.1)
          | net-vault |  |  (8090)      |   backend data tier
          |  (8085)   |  | large tokens |
          | secrets   |  | + knowledge  |
          +-----------+  +--------------+

  * Executor supports dual-mode polling: JWT via gateway (shown above, works
    across firewalls) OR direct to master on the same compose network.

Agent roles on the wire

Every agent runs under the positional capability role rwxhludcts. The role is the coarse ceiling; a named capability profile, an explicit tool allowlist, and resource scopes can narrow it for a particular fire.

Flag	Capability	Examples
r	Read	Inspect nets, places, tokens, models, contexts, and package metadata
w	Write	Create tokens and structure; author, register, or promote tool nets
x	Execute	Deploy, start, stop, fire, and run transitions
h	HTTP	Call and register external HTTP services
l	Logs	Query events, facets, and fire trails
u	Inhabit	Await tokens and use fire-and-wait interaction patterns
d	Docker	Discover, validate, run, stop, and inspect container tools
c	Coordinate	Invoke personas, delegate tasks, and collect results
t	Tool nets	Discover, inspect, and invoke reusable capability nets
s	Scripts	Register executable script artifacts in the tool catalog

A role-less agent defaults to lean read/write access, not full power. The runtime refuses calls outside the effective grant.

Executor polling modes

Executor agents use egress-only polling — firewall-friendly, deployable anywhere:

Mode	When	Executor polls	Auth
Direct	Same network as master	http://agentic-net-master:8082	None (internal)
Gateway	Remote / different network	http://<gateway-host>:8083	JWT (auto-acquired)

Public services (this repo)

Service	Purpose	Port
agentic-net-gateway	OAuth2 API gateway with JWT auth, rate limits, read-only scopes	8083
agentic-net-executor	Distributed command execution agent, polls master direct or via gateway	8084
agentic-net-vault	Secrets management (OpenBao wrapper) for agent-transition credentials	8085
agentic-net-cli	Command-line agent with multi-provider LLM routing and tool-catalog sync	—
agentic-net-chat	Telegram-facing agent with streaming tool-call batches and /verbose toggle	—
agentic-net-mcp	MCP server: working memory, net workbench, Agent Hub/NetHub, and external execution	stdio / 8091
sa-blobstore	Distributed blob storage for large tokens, artifacts, and knowledge content	8090
agentic-net-tools/	Tool containers agents start on demand (crawler, echo, reddit, rss, search, secured-api)	dynamic

Docker tools are published as alexejsailer/agenticos-tool-*:<version> and mirrored into the bundled local registry (localhost:5001) by agenticos-tool-seeder. Master only runs images matching the local allowlist, normally localhost:5001/agenticos-*.

Closed-source services (Docker Hub)

Image	Purpose	Port
alexejsailer/agenticnetos-node	Event-sourced state engine, tree-structured persistence, ArcQL queries	8080
alexejsailer/agenticnetos-master	Orchestration, LLM integration, transition engine, agent runtime	8082
alexejsailer/agenticnetos-gui	Angular visual editor with drag-drop Petri-net design	4200

These images are governed by the Proprietary EULA.

Full architecture deep dive: see ARCHITECTURE.md. Long-form whitepaper — The Harness Control System: Complete Domain Automation on Agentic-Nets (concepts, control loop, use cases, live evidence): docs/whitepaper/the-harness-control-system.html — a self-contained HTML document; download and open in any browser, or view it rendered.

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Repository structure

agentic-nets/
├── LICENSE.md                    # BSL 1.1 for public code in this repo
├── PROPRIETARY-EULA.md           # EULA for Docker Hub images
├── README.md                     # (this file)
├── ARCHITECTURE.md               # Deep dive: transitions, ArcQL, coordination
├── CHANGELOG.md                  # Human-curated release notes
├── CONTRIBUTING.md               # How to contribute
│
├── docs/
│   ├── foundations/              # Figures from the 2012 KIT diploma thesis (see FOUNDATIONS.md)
│   └── whitepaper/               # The Harness Control System — self-contained HTML whitepaper
│
├── agentic-net-gateway/          # OAuth2 API gateway (Spring Boot)
├── agentic-net-executor/         # Command executor (Spring Boot)
├── agentic-net-vault/            # Secrets wrapper for OpenBao (Spring Boot)
├── agentic-net-cli/              # CLI agent (TypeScript/Node)
├── agentic-net-chat/             # Telegram-facing agent (TypeScript/Node)
├── agentic-net-mcp/              # MCP server and external-fire client surface
├── sa-blobstore/                 # Distributed blob storage (Spring Boot)
├── agentic-net-tools/            # Tool containers (Docker)
│
├── deployment/
│   ├── README.md                 # Local Docker Compose install guide
│   ├── docker-compose.yml        # Hybrid: Hub images + local builds
│   ├── docker-compose.hub-only.yml  # All services from Docker Hub + monitoring
│   ├── docker-compose.hub-only.no-monitoring.yml  # Runtime stack without monitoring
│   ├── .env.template             # Environment config template
│   ├── dockerfiles/              # Build files for public services
│   └── scripts/
│       ├── build-and-push.sh     # Build & push public service images
│       └── seed-tool-registry.sh # Mirror/build Docker tools into local registry
│
└── monitoring/
    ├── config/                   # OTel, Prometheus, Tempo, Loki, Alloy configs
    └── grafana-provisioning/     # Dashboards and datasources (Prometheus, Tempo, Loki)

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Licensing

Dual-license model:

• Public code in this repo — BSL 1.1. Free for development, testing, personal, educational, and evaluation use. Commercial production use requires a commercial license. Converts to Apache 2.0 on 2030-02-22.
• Closed-source Docker Hub images (agenticnetos-node, agenticnetos-master, agenticnetos-gui) — Proprietary EULA. Free for personal, educational, evaluation, non-commercial use. Commercial use requires contact at alexejsailer@gmail.com.

ALL SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS-IS WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

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Contact

• Commercial licensing: alexejsailer@gmail.com
• Website & blog: https://alexejsailer.com
• Hosted docs: https://agentic-nets.com
• Video walkthroughs (YouTube): Agentic-Nets playlist
• Issues: https://github.com/alexejsailer/agentic-nets/issues
• Contributing: see CONTRIBUTING.md

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Agentic-Nets is currently designed and maintained by Alexej Sailer as a one-person product effort, amplified by AI pair programming and an automated release pipeline. The product is therefore also a live test of its own premise: agents can increase delivery speed when their state, permissions, execution, and verification are made explicit. See CHANGELOG.md for the human-curated evidence.

Copyright (c) 2025-2026 Alexej Sailer. All rights reserved.