Tetonic Engine on Tetonic

Architecture

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The engine separates how work is requested, coordinated, executed, remembered, and connected to models.

Applications and interfaces

Applications direct the runtime through interfaces. The source tree includes terminal and daemon interfaces. Existing executable names such as lokai and lokaid may still appear in build instructions; they are interfaces into the engine, not separate product lines.

Coordination and execution

Coordination manages work across agents and execution resources. The runtime carries out agent work within configured tool and policy boundaries. Keeping these responsibilities separate is central to the distributed design.

The Village

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The Village is an experiment, not a guarantee of production behavior or engine scale.

Execution & permissions

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Autonomous work needs explicit boundaries. The engine’s approach is to put those boundaries in the execution path.

Tool actions

Shell commands, file writes, and network access are distinct kinds of action. Configure the permissions appropriate to each workload instead of treating all tool calls as equivalent.

Policy decisions

Policy can allow, ask, or deny an action. Approval is part of the execution model; a permitted action does not necessarily require a new dialog each time.

Distributed operation

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The Tetonic Engine is designed as distributed infrastructure. Growing beyond one machine should not require a different product.

Begin with responsibilities

An application supplies intent and context. Coordination organizes work. Execution resources carry it out, and the state layer preserves the record. Inference supplies model responses.

These roles may be close together on one machine or separated across infrastructure. The homepage diagram illustrates these roles; it is not a live cluster monitor or a deployment command.

Explore the source

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The Tetonic repository is the starting point for the engine implementation.

Build instructions

Follow the README and contributor instructions for the revision you check out. They describe the supported build environment and available interfaces. This site does not publish a separate engine installer.

Existing component names

The codebase may still use names such as lokai, lokaid, and mantle. Those names identify existing interfaces or internal components. The product is the Tetonic Engine.

One engine. A broader foundation.

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Tetonic is moving to one product: the Tetonic Engine, a distributed agent runtime engine.

The work is infrastructure. Agent execution, coordination, state, and model access need to fit together as a system that can grow across machines.

Applications and interfaces can build on that foundation. They no longer define separate product lines.

Scale is the direction we are designing for. It has to be demonstrated through the workloads, deployment topologies, and failure cases the engine is tested against.

Owner-operated agent software

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Tetonic Labs LLC builds owner-operated agent software. The work runs on hardware the customer owns. Tetonic is not a hosted agent service and not a single app.

Lokai is the first product: a local coding assistant. Later products will follow the same rule: your machines, your data.

The company is the rule. The products are applications of it.

An agent runtime you operate

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Today Lokai is a terminal program (lokai) and a background service (lokaid) that an editor can talk to. You can run it as a one-shot task or as an interactive session.

If you have more than one machine, you can add machines you trust and use them to run the models. That is still your hardware, not a fleet we host.

The longer aim is software you operate yourself: start work, limit it, tool it, watch it, cancel it, and keep a durable record on your data. The coding assistant is built on that.

Software work, not only chat

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Lokai is for software work, not only chat. It can answer questions, inspect a codebase, search, plan, edit, test, debug, and review.

It can also do a turn that never touches a file.

Dangerous actions wait. Shell and network go through approval. Network access is denied unless you allow it. Writes go through policy, which can allow, ask, or deny.

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Owner-operated

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The Tetonic Engine is designed to run on infrastructure you control. Decide where work executes, which models it can reach, and which tool actions it may take.

This remains the goal as work moves from a machine to distributed infrastructure. Read Distributed operation for the design considerations.

Ownership

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Infrastructure choices determine where code, context, history, and artifacts live. The Tetonic Engine is designed to keep those choices with the operator.

Review model endpoints, access policies, and state storage as part of your deployment. Read our operational principles and execution guide.

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