AI coding tools stop at the pull request. Telos turns goals into running software, and keeps it running as they change.
Telos is a new, declarative abstraction layer for software engineering. You own the goal, and agents own the entire software lifecycle underneath.
See a goal in productionA public status page for Halcyon’s services, based on the PagerDuty API.
GET /api/status returns every service with its current state.Telos meets you where you work: drive each goal through Claude Code, Codex, or your favorite coding agent.
Set up Telos.
curl -fsSL https://usetelos.ai/install.sh | sh.telos login to sign in to Telos Cloud.telos-cli skill to get started.A persistent VM for each goal, with checkpoint/restore, default-deny egress, and a stable hostname. Agents keep their workspace from the first build through production.
Over 40 common developer tools for building, testing, deploying, and debugging your software.
Python, Node.js, Clang, Bazel, Git
pytest, Playwright, Chromium
Kubernetes, Helm, OpenTofu
Database, network, and observability tools
Use Telos-managed models, a connected subscription, or your own API key.
Share your team's specs, skills, and rubrics as versioned packages. Each revision resolves to an exact digest, so every goal uses the intended version.
How packages and skills workYes! Work with Claude Code, Codex, or your preferred coding agent to define and update a goal. Telos handles the build, test, deploy, and maintenance loop, and checks the software against your requirements as they evolve.
Engineering teams already building with coding agents, where reviewing changes, coordinating work, and operating a growing fleet of services have become the bottleneck.
Spec-driven development uses specs to guide code creation, like a to-do list. The code is still the artifact you maintain afterward and the final source of truth. In Telos, the goal is the durable contract, the code is abstracted away, and Telos keeps them both reconciled.
Telos is not an AI IDE or chatbot app builder, where imperative prompts guide AI agents and are disposed of after. Instead, goals are the declarative, versioned source of truth for software.
Telos runs a pair of adversarial coding agents until the spec has been satisfied. This serves as a forcing function for correctness and coverage against the desired contract. Read more on why we think this is powerful.
The Telos CLI (harness and framework) is source-available here. Telos Cloud provides managed agent execution and cloud hosting.
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