## Brain packs, ready to hand over

A pack bundles an identity, a system prompt, tools and skills into one unit an agent can be given wholesale. These ship with the package — each row opens the pack definition.

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## Why it exists

Most agent frameworks bind you to one provider. This one treats the backend as configuration.

routing

### Effort-based routing

Declare how hard a task is; the selector picks a model to match. Trivial work does not pay for a frontier model.

backends

### Runtime switching

vLLM, Ollama and cloud APIs behind one interface. Change the backend without touching agent code.

memory

### Knowledge-graph memory

Agents keep durable, queryable memory across runs rather than restarting cold every session.

fleets

### Multi-agent coordination

Compose agents into fleets with shared context, so work can be decomposed and run in parallel.

packs

### Tool packs

Bundle tools, prompts and identity into a pack — a reusable unit an agent can be given wholesale.

local

### Local or cloud

No GPU? Set an API key. Have one? It auto-detects. Both? It routes by task complexity.

## Quick start

Install, set up inference, and run your first agent. The bootstrap installer handles Python for you if you would rather not manage it.

bash

    # with Python already available
    pip install aither-adk
    adk quickstart
    adk quickstart --cloud
    adk start

    # no Python? one line (macOS / Linux)
    curl -fsSL https://aitherium.com/install.sh | sh

    # Windows
    powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://aitherium.com/install.ps1 | iex"

Building something real? The Agent Dev Guide is the opinionated golden path — authoring a pack, never-forget RAG memory, BYO keys, and the gotchas worth skipping.

## One estate, six doors

These projects are organs of the same system — the same identity plane, the same agent runtime, the same operational discipline. Follow any of them.

the os aitherium.com The Living OS these four repos are cut from. Open, no login.python Aither ADK Build agent fleets. Any backend, effort-routed, real memory.markdown aither-skills Operational procedures an agent can load and run. MIT.cuda aither-kvcache Sub-byte KV cache compression for LLM inference.powershell AitherZero Numbered, discoverable automation and declarative playbooks.writing The Blog How all of it is actually built, measured and operated.