# Praxis Agents OS

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Praxis Agents OS is a self-hosted, open-source operating system for building, running, and governing AI agents inside real organisations. It is licensed under Apache 2.0 and has a public pre-release build; v0.1.0 has not been tagged.

## Core Pages
- [Praxis Agents OS](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/index.md): Product overview, current maturity, open-source boundary, and evaluation routes. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai
- [How It Works](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/how-it-works.md): Architecture, workspace identity, runtime context, tools, approval, execution, and audit. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai/how-it-works
- [Integrations](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/integrations.md): The thirteen governed tools across Gmail, Google Ads, Airtable, and BigQuery, and the provider-package architecture behind them. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai/integrations
- [Documentation](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/docs.md): Setup, architecture, contribution guides, and project status. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai/docs
- [Roadmap](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/roadmap.md): Implemented foundations, active work, planned work, maturity, and architectural gates. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai/roadmap
- [Articles](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles.md): Product thesis, governed-agent architecture, build-in-public writing, and implementation lessons. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles
- [Services](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/services.md): Initial Implementation and optional Ongoing Development Roadmap from the project's creator. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai/services
- [About](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/about.md): Project origin, Greg Asquith's maintainer role, and the legal company boundary. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai/about
- [Contact](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/contact.md): Qualified implementation enquiries and direct email. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai/contact

## Articles
- [Why an Enterprise AI Subscription Is Not the Same as Owning Your AI Operating Layer](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/enterprise-ai-subscription-vs-operating-layer.md): Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini enterprise products are increasingly capable. The architectural question is whether configuration is enough, or the organisation needs to own and reshape the operating layer itself. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/enterprise-ai-subscription-vs-operating-layer
- [Building the Operating Intelligence Layer](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/operating-intelligence-layer.md): Why businesses should own their Operating Intelligence Layer, not outsource the translation of business context into action to external tech companies. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/operating-intelligence-layer
- [What Is Context Rot? Why AI Agents Lose the Thread](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/context-rot.md): Context rot is what happens when long AI runs become crowded with stale outputs and process noise. Learn how explicit state, prompt budgets, and careful compaction reduce drift. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/context-rot
- [Why AI Agents Give Inconsistent Results](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/why-ai-agents-inconsistent.md): AI agent inconsistency comes from probabilistic generation, changing context, prompt drift, incomplete information, and moving dependencies. Learn how governed systems reduce the risk. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/why-ai-agents-inconsistent
- [Looking For OpenClaw For Business?](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/openclaw-for-business.md): OpenClaw is a capable self-hosted personal assistant. This guide explains its trust model and what organisations need to add for shared, governed use. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/openclaw-for-business
- [AI Agents Are Capacity, Not Seats](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/capacity-not-seats.md): Seat-based software prices individual access. Agent systems are often better evaluated as shared operating capacity, with costs tied to usage, controls, and maintenance. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/capacity-not-seats
- [What Basic Capacity Costs in London](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/cost-of-capacity.md): A transparent 2026 benchmark for the minimum employer cost of a full-time London Living Wage role, with assumptions and official sources. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/cost-of-capacity
- [An AI Demo Is Not a Production System](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/beyond-the-ai-prototype.md): An AI-built prototype can validate an idea quickly. Production software also needs security, recovery, observability, data controls, and safe change management. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/beyond-the-ai-prototype
- [What Does Claude Mean? Models, App, Code, and API](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/claude-explained.md): Claude can refer to Anthropic's models, consumer app, developer tools, or API. Learn which surface fits exploration, coding, and software integration. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/claude-explained
- [Why Praxis Agents OS Is Not a SaaS Product](https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/why-not-saas.md): Praxis Agents OS is Apache-licensed open-source software that organisations can inspect, self-host, and extend, not access sold through a proprietary SaaS subscription. Canonical HTML: https://www.praxis-agents.ai/articles/why-not-saas

## Primary Technical Sources
- Repository: https://github.com/Greg-Asquith/praxis-agents-os
- Runtime architecture: https://github.com/Greg-Asquith/praxis-agents-os/blob/main/docs/architecture/agent-runtime.md
- Governance architecture: https://github.com/Greg-Asquith/praxis-agents-os/blob/main/docs/architecture/governance.md
- Agent context architecture: https://github.com/Greg-Asquith/praxis-agents-os/blob/main/docs/architecture/agent-context.md
- Prompt-injection threat model: https://github.com/Greg-Asquith/praxis-agents-os/blob/main/docs/architecture/threat-model.md
- Unified roadmap: https://github.com/Greg-Asquith/praxis-agents-os/blob/main/docs/plans/000_MASTER_ROADMAP.md

## Boundaries
- Inspect the repository and technical documentation for implemented behaviour.
- The public build includes Gmail, Google Ads, Airtable, and BigQuery integrations, hybrid knowledge retrieval, persistent memory, context compaction, and versioned artifacts. The first tagged release, production deployment guidance, Code Mode, user-developed applications, provider-native sandboxed computation, model failover, and durable replay remain active or planned work.
- Praxis Agents OS is the open-source project. Greg Asquith is its creator and maintainer. Gregory Asquith Limited supplies implementation services.