# aa-runtime
Tokio async runtime wrapper and lifecycle management for Agent Assembly.
[](https://crates.io/crates/aa-runtime)
[](https://docs.rs/aa-runtime)
[](https://github.com/ai-agent-assembly/agent-assembly/blob/master/LICENSE)
Wraps `tokio` to give Agent Assembly components a consistent async execution
environment — runtime initialization, shutdown coordination, and agent lifecycle
hooks. The runtime is the authoritative enforcement point in the three-layer
interception model.
Part of [Agent Assembly](https://github.com/ai-agent-assembly/agent-assembly) — [documentation](https://docs.agent-assembly.com/) · [monorepo](https://github.com/ai-agent-assembly/agent-assembly).