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What is Elanous

Elanous is the conductor that coordinates many AI agents and brings back only finished results. It works with Codex and Claude — and gives them wings.

  • A team of AI on duty — loop agents take the work that repeats (every morning, every new request) and keep at it until it is done.
  • Work manuals it can follow and reshape — every job runs as a graph: steps you can see, edit and share.
  • One sentence to start — say what you want; elanous turns it into a plan, a graph or a plugin.

Underneath, it watches itself, understands what it sees, and heals itself — and asks a person only when it cannot.

In practice, elanous takes a change described in one sentence, writes a goal document, implements it in an isolated git worktree, gates it with tests, reviews it unattended and merges it. You are called only when the system cannot converge.

curl -fsSL https://github.com/ElanvitalAI/elanous/releases/latest/download/install.sh | bash
elanous harness say "add a --json flag to the status command"

Under the hood every job is one loop — observe, understand, heal — drawn as a graph that elanous reshapes while it runs, with posture deciding how hard it looks and how widely it grounds itself. See Graph engineering and self-healing loops.

elanous also drives terminals itself — shells, Codex, Claude Code and another elanous — choosing the lowest tool that can do the job. See PTY intelligence.

Work that repeats — every morning, on every new request — runs as loop agents; you can build your own.

Skills and graphs come as plugins from a signed marketplace — the same packages install in Codex; you can build one.

The name and the mark — élan, and nous​

Elanous mark

The red point at the center is élan — the drive to move on its own. The three white blades around it are nous — the mind that brings order. They turn one way — observe, understand, heal — widening a little with every turn. A spark meets a mind and keeps widening itself. That is Elanous.

Elanous joins Bergson's élan vital — the vital impulse that gave Elanvital AI its name — with Anaxagoras' nous, the mind that sets the world turning.

Start with Install and the Quickstart.