Python · pip install aither-adk
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Agent fleets in three lines

Same code on your GPU, on Ollama, or on cloud APIs. Effort-based model routing, persistent memory and multi-agent coordination — without the lock-in.

Get started View source
bash
pip install aither-adk
adk quickstart
#   detects hardware, pulls models, configures backends
adk init my-agent && cd my-agent && python agent.py
3lines to start
3.2version
6packs
BSL 1.1license

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.

adk/packs6 of 6
Aither System OrchestratorAither — System Overseer & Orchestrator Brain Packaither · 2 skillsAnalyst StudioAnalyst — Data & Structured-ML Agent Brain Packanalyst · 2 skillsClaude Code StudioClaude Code — Software Development Agent Brain Packclaude-code · 2 skillsHermes Architecture StudioHermes — Architecture & Reasoning Agent Brain Packhermes · 2 skillsIris Visual ArtisanIris — Visual Artisan Brain Packiris · 3 skillsOpenClaw Research StudioOpenClaw — Web Research Agent Brain Packopenclaw · 2 skills

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.

thinking

External thinking

Providers stopped returning chain-of-thought. Switch the native channel off, hand the model a scratchpad tool, and it reasons into the tool call — which comes back in plaintext.

infill

Fill-in-the-middle

Write the code BETWEEN two fragments, not around them. Ask a chat model to fill a gap and it rewrites your surrounding lines; this is the operation an editor completion actually needs.

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 osaitherium.comThe Living OS these four repos are cut from. Open, no login.pythonAither ADKBuild agent fleets. Any backend, effort-routed, real memory.markdownaither-skillsOperational procedures an agent can load and run. MIT.cudaaither-kvcacheSub-byte KV cache compression for LLM inference.powershellAitherZeroNumbered, discoverable automation and declarative playbooks.writingThe BlogHow all of it is actually built, measured and operated.

The ecosystem this belongs to

Every Aitherium repository publishes an aither-manifest.json beside its page, and each surface reads all of them — so the network is browsable from any node in it. A repository that publishes nothing shows as unknown, never as zero.