SPEC.md
Review the specification.
You, your team, and your agents review the same contract before anything runs.
Read about SPEC.mdDeclarative software
Set up Telos with your agent.
- Install it with
curl -fsSL https://usetelos.ai/install.sh | sh. - Run
telos loginto sign in to Telos Cloud. - Read the installed
telos-cliskill to get started.
Write the spec. Telos ships it.
Draft SPEC.md with your coding agent; Telos background agents build, deploy, and evaluate it.
telos apply
Apply it.
telos apply hands the approved specification to background agents that build and deploy the service.
Use telos applytelos describe
Inspect the evidence.
Ready means the deployed revision passed its acceptance checks and independent evaluation.
Inspect a deploymentA persistent environment for every Goal.
Isolated VM per Goal
Each Goal runs in its own machine. State and artifacts persist across agent sessions.
Complete toolchain
Build
Python, Node.js, Clang, Bazel, Git
Test
pytest, Playwright, Chromium
Operate
Kubernetes, Helm, OpenTofu
Inspect
Database, network, and observability tools
Managed model classes
Telos manages providers, routing, credentials, and usage behind stable interfaces.
- telos/default
- Balanced intelligence, cost, and latency.
- telos/max
- Frontier intelligence and multimodal work, at a higher cost.
Versioned platform skills
Skills carry instructions, tools, and verification rubrics with the Goal. Telos resolves the exact bundle before work begins.
How skills workBespoke Software Services
Internal tools and services shaped to your requirements, not someone else's defaults.
Read the docs
A multiplayer game
A persistent world and multiplayer backend, managed from one specification.
Open source infrastructure
Run Postgres, Keycloak, Temporal, Kafka, and more from published specifications.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Telos work with Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents?
Yes. Your coding agent installs Telos, helps draft and review SPEC.md, then uses Telos to delegate long-running work to background agents.
Is Telos a coding agent?
No. Coding agents perform implementation work. Telos manages the Goal, execution environment, deployment, and independent evaluation.
How is Telos different from vibe coding platforms?
Telos is not an IDE or app builder. It works with your repository and coding agent to turn a reviewed specification into production software.
How does Telos know when the work is done?
An independent evaluator assesses the resulting revision against the Goal. Telos marks it Ready only after the evaluator accepts it.
Is Telos open source?
The CLI and framework are open source. Telos Cloud provides managed execution and hosting.