Raise the ceiling for what agents can achieve.
Agent infrastructure, by our definition.
Agent infrastructure is the foundation that makes AI agents more practical, more powerful, and more reliableβgiving them the environment, memory, coordination, authority, and durability to take on larger, longer, and more complex work.
It is the connected layer beneath many agents and applications: the systems that let capabilities persist, cooperate, improve, and remain worthy of trust.
The eight capabilities that raise the ceiling.
These Areas reinforce one another. Progress in any one can make the whole agentic ecosystem more capable and dependable.
Execution Environments & Sandboxing
Safe, capable places for agents to work: sandboxes, browsers, containers, filesystems, process isolation, and resource controls.
Browse related projectsAgent Communication & Coordination
How agents discover one another, exchange context, delegate work, coordinate across boundaries, and resolve conflicts.
Browse related projectsMemory, Data & Filesystems
Durable context, working data, artifacts, and governed filesystems that let agents retain and share what matters.
Browse related projectsIdentity, Permissions & Trusted Tools
Clear authority, scoped credentials, and dependable tool connections that give agents useful power with accountable boundaries.
Browse related projectsDurable Workflows & Recovery
State, checkpoints, retries, and recovery paths for work that lasts longer than a single session or failure.
Browse related projectsObservability, Auditability & Provenance
Traces, logs, evidence, and policy visibility that make agent behavior understandable, inspectable, and improvable.
Browse related projectsHuman Handoffs & Control
Thoughtful approvals, escalation, intervention, and context transfer when people should guide the next move.
Browse related projectsEvaluation & Operational Reliability
Ways to test, measure, and improve agents for dependable performance, safe failure, recovery, and long-running operation.
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An Agent Communication Matrix.
Messages alone are not enough. Agents need shared conventions for context, authority, commitments, and outcomes across every important handoff.
| Connection | What must be clear | What it unlocks |
|---|---|---|
| Agent β Agent | Identity, role, intent, context, commitments, and state. | Legible delegation and dependable collaboration. |
| Agent β Tool | Capability, schema, permission, side effect, and result. | Useful power with safe, inspectable boundaries. |
| Agent β Human | Goal, decision needed, evidence, approval, and outcome. | Thoughtful handoffs and meaningful human control. |
| Agent β Environment | Resources, lifecycle, working state, and failure conditions. | Work that can continue, recover, and improve over time. |
- Agent β Agent
- What must be clear
Identity, role, intent, context, commitments, and state.
What it unlocksLegible delegation and dependable collaboration.
- Agent β Tool
- What must be clear
Capability, schema, permission, side effect, and result.
What it unlocksUseful power with safe, inspectable boundaries.
- Agent β Human
- What must be clear
Goal, decision needed, evidence, approval, and outcome.
What it unlocksThoughtful handoffs and meaningful human control.
- Agent β Environment
- What must be clear
Resources, lifecycle, working state, and failure conditions.
What it unlocksWork that can continue, recover, and improve over time.
Better models need stronger foundations.
Model capability is only one part of what makes an agent useful. Without lasting context, safe authority, reliable coordination, and clear evidence of what happened, agents remain limited to short, fragile bursts of work.
Strong foundations turn isolated capability into sustained progress. They give teams the confidence to ask more of agentsβand give agents the support to meet that higher bar.
Build the foundations agents will need next.
Reliability makes capability usable
A capability that works once in a demo is not enough. We value systems that are understandable, recoverable, and dependable over time.
Open work compounds
Projects, specifications, and field notes become more valuable when others can inspect, challenge, and extend them.
People remain in control
Agents should extend human intent with thoughtful boundaries, clear handoffs, and accountable authority.
Built for people who dream big about what agents can become.