Ateles

The operating system for organizations where humans and AI agents jointly initiate, delegate, execute, review, approve, and reconcile work — under explicit authority, with every action attributed, capability-scoped, and queryable.

That is the category Ateles is built toward. What ships today is its first proving ground: a single-operator reference implementation — an AI agent swarm that runs a founder’s company and personal life end to end, with the governance substrate (identity, capability, gating, audit) already real. See Vision and execution status for exactly where the implementation stands against the vision.

Ateles is a design and a working example of it. The design is docs/foundation/: twenty-eight documents — twenty-four stating how work is created, taken, executed, and approved, and what the swarm does when it cannot reach its own record, plus Revisions, Decision state,…