# steading

> You decide what to build. Agents plan it, build it, review it, and ship it, with proof at every step, on machines you own. Steading is the open-source stack for building software this way, and you can start running it today!

Steading suits engineers who already run coding agents, such as Claude Code or Codex, and want them to work unattended on machines they own. Each project is useful without the others, and most people begin with the one that fixes the problem they have today. Steading is not a hosted service, and it is not a no-code agent builder.

Every page has a Markdown twin at the same address, with `.md` in place of the trailing slash; the front page's is `/index.md`. The links below point at the Markdown.

## Projects

Each project is listed with the problem it answers, in the words of someone who has it, then what it does and how far along it is. A project with a site of its own is linked to that site's llms.txt.

- console: "I can't see what my agents did overnight, or what it cost." Shows what every project is doing and what needs a person, on a phone as well as a desk. Running daily.
- skift: "My agents step on each other, and nobody knows what's ready." One plan for every agent, on every machine. It always knows what's ready. Running daily. Source: https://github.com/steading-ai/skift
- mill: "I babysit every task until it's merged." Takes a ready task to a merged, running change, with proof at every step. Running daily.
- almanac: "Dependency updates pile up faster than I merge them." Repairs broken dependency updates for tens of cents. Early. Source: https://github.com/ivy/almanac
- thicket: "I want to hand an idea to an agent from my phone." Agents on the systems you run, reachable from Slack or a phone call. Early. Source: https://github.com/ivy/thicket
- stead: "I'm on a Mac, and all of this wants Linux." Runs skift and mill on your Mac. Early.
- croft: "My agents have free rein on my machine." Sandboxes the operating system enforces, and virtual machines for code you don't trust. In design.
- gateway: "My agents hold my API keys." Agents never hold your credentials. Inside mill today; its own name is still to come. In design.
- knowledge: "Every session starts from scratch." Agents stop starting every job from scratch. Its own name is still to come. In design.
- fallow: "My disk is full of what agents left behind." Takes back the disk your agents leave behind. In design.

## Pages

- [Open for good](https://stead.ing/open-for-good.md): Why Steading can't be relicensed, and what that means for anyone building on it.
- [How we work](https://stead.ing/how-we-work.md): Who decides, and how your idea becomes a Steading project.
- [We hit the same wall](https://stead.ing/history.md): How Steading came about.

## More

- [Everything in one file](https://stead.ing/llms-full.txt)
- [Source](https://github.com/steading-ai/stead.ing)
- License: ISC (https://opensource.org/license/isc-license-txt)