A public map of independent projects for governed autonomy.
Documentation version: v0.2.0
AxisVela is an independent, open-source project family for people building and operating agents, workflows, robots, digital twins, and the systems that connect them. The projects share a design stance — contracts over a shared kernel, evidence over assertions, and human control over blind automation — but each product is independently versioned and can be used on its own.
This repository is the map, not a monorepo. It explains what each project is for, the problem it solves, the value it provides, and how the pieces relate.
Start here · Products · Theory · Architecture · Practice · Concepts · Reference · Machine-readable index
| If you need to… | Start with |
|---|---|
| Build an agent loop you can govern and embed | PRAXO-CORE — MIT Go framework |
| Understand how the whole ecosystem fits together | Enterprise Autonomy — public introduction and runnable examples |
| Run a long-lived, recoverable business process | RHEOVELA — durable workflow platform |
| Give agents verifiable identity and bounded authority | EIDOVELA, NOMIVELA, AEGIVELA |
| Connect agents to APIs, MCP servers, and events without bypassing policy | LIMENORA — governed integration gateway |
| Design and validate enterprise architecture with AI assistants | TAXOVELA — architecture skill pack and CLI |
Governed autonomy is not a model feature. It is an operating discipline built from three questions:
- What is allowed? Capabilities, data, and side effects are bounded by explicit policy before execution.
- What actually happened? Actions leave evidence: effect ledgers, traces, process history, simulation records, or verification results.
- Who decided? High-risk steps have a named owner, an approval path, and a way to intervene, revoke, or recover.
Different projects answer these questions at different layers. The concepts section explains the ideas; the ecosystem map shows where each project sits.
| Layer | What it covers | Representative projects |
|---|---|---|
| Design and standards | Architecture design, validation, and portfolio management | TAXOVELA, PAMP |
| Foundation | Agent framework, coordination protocol, development coordination | PRAXO-CORE, Harmovela, COORDIVELA |
| Runtime and cognition | Agent execution, memory, inference routing | PRAXOVELA, Mnemovela, Noetivela |
| Work and capabilities | Planning, capability governance, durable process | ORCHADYN, MODUREGIS, RHEOVELA |
| Trust and knowledge | Identity, registry, authorization, grounding, world models | EIDOVELA, NOMIVELA, AEGIVELA, GNOSIVELA, ONTOVELA |
| Boundary and assurance | Integration, verification, simulation, skill supply chain | LIMENORA, TEKMOVELA, PEIRAVELA, SYNDOVELA |
| Human and physical operations | Human oversight, robot fleet control | SYMBIVELA, KINETOVELA |
| Site execution (planned) | Local operations, attempts and receipts | AKROVELA, bootstrap |
| Data and learning (planned) | Learning inputs and candidate artifacts | DIDACTOVELA, bootstrap |
| Program | End-to-end composition and examples | Enterprise Autonomy |
The layers are a reading aid, not a dependency chain. Products integrate through versioned contracts and can be adopted independently.
AKROVELA and DIDACTOVELA are unreleased 0.1.0, bootstrap only: operational health/schema-readiness/version APIs and source Go version clients. Their domain scope and integration edges are planned, not shipped. Neither provides domain execution, datasets, training, robot integration, binaries or published SDKs. Their open source is Apache-2.0, core AGPL-3.0-only and EE proprietary; any future binaries retain their own licenses.
- Fully open projects: PRAXO-CORE (MIT), TAXOVELA (MIT), and the Harmovela protocol (Apache-2.0).
- Open product surfaces: most products publish an Apache-2.0
*-openrepository containing contracts, SDKs, examples, and sometimes binaries. The runtime or enterprise edition may be developed separately. - Licenses vary: always treat the
LICENSEin the specific repository as authoritative. See licenses for the current map.
The practical consequence: you can evaluate the interfaces and build against them without buying anything, but an open surface is not a promise that the entire runtime is open source.
| If you are… | Read |
|---|---|
| New to the ecosystem | Start here → Ecosystem map → Products |
| An architect | Agent theory → Agent architecture → Enterprise Autonomy |
| A builder | Build an agent → Govern an agent → Durable process |
| A researcher | Agent theory → Research map → Reading list |
docs/projects/— one page per project: problem, what it provides, why it matters, and how it fits.docs/theory/— the conceptual spine: UAD, DIKCA, intent/AOP, PPES, taxonomy, multi-agent dynamics, economics. It synthesizes Huiwen Han’s research program and links each page to the original source.docs/architecture/— runtime, control planes, contracts, knowledge, evidence, deployment, and security.docs/practice/— step-by-step guides using AxisVela as the reference implementation.docs/concepts/— the vocabulary and the deeper conceptual notes, including a comprehensive terminology section.docs/reference/— relationships, licenses, sources, standards, and FAQ.projects.yaml— a machine-readable project index for tooling, catalogs, and AI agents.llms.txt— a compact index for AI-assisted discovery.
These projects are early stage. Public contracts are versioned, but APIs may
change between minor releases until a repository declares 1.0. Each project’s
CHANGELOG.md, ROADMAP.md, and release tags are the source of truth.
AxisVela is a solo-maintainer, independent project family — not a company. The public repositories are the open surface; commercial and enterprise editions are developed separately.
After installing requirements-docs.txt, validate registry/bilingual links with
python -m unittest discover -s tests -v and build with mkdocs build --strict.
These are documentation checks, not product interoperability evidence.
- Contributing — documentation fixes, project proposals, and the boundary between this repo and product repos.
- Security — report vulnerabilities privately.
- Code of Conduct.
- Documentation and examples in this repository are licensed under Apache-2.0. Product repositories carry their own licenses.