Corifeu

A runtime that orchestrates AI agents and models to build software.

You talk to one agent — the lead. Behind it, a team of specialised roles (planners, researchers, doers, checkers) does the work, each seeing only what its context contract grants. Two goals: spend fewer expensive tokens by delegating to local models, and produce better output by splitting work into small blocks with objective verification.

The name is the Greek coryphaeus: the leader of the chorus, the one who addresses the audience while conducting the others.

Status

Not implemented yet. This release reserves the name. corifeu currently prints its version and exits.

The design is complete and public, decision by decision:

• Architecture
• Decision records — 45 of them, each with its rejected alternatives
• Roadmap
• Glossary

Follow or contribute at https://github.com/baphomello/corifeu.

License

AGPL-3.0-or-later. Plugins run out of process over a versioned protocol, so plugin authors choose their own license and need not write Rust. Contributions use the DCO; there is no CLA, which means this code cannot be relicensed by anyone, including its author.