What's a Mandrel?
The Mandrel Project binds autonomous AI agents to a declarative contract and enforces it at runtime. The names come from the machine shop, and they are not decoration: precision work is not produced by care, but by constraint.
Overview & Architecture
Foundational concepts, architectural principles, workload maturity tiers, and open-source roadmap for the Mandrel Project.
Welcome to the Mandrel overview section. These documents establish the philosophical foundation and technical architecture of deterministic agent governance.
In This Section
- What’s a Mandrel?: Why precision governance borrows a machinist’s vocabulary.
- Architecture: How the Collet sidecar, Gantry operator, and Metrology Lab interact.
- Agent Workload Maturity Tiers: Actionable checklist for advancing workloads from Sandbox to Autonomous production.
- Open Source Roadmap: Long-term development phases for the Mandrel open-source core.
Architecture
The technical and philosophical framework for engineering amorphous AI.
Agent Workload Maturity Tiers
An actionable progression checklist for advancing agent workloads through Mandrel’s four operational maturity tiers.
Open Source Roadmap
The long-term vision for the Mandrel open source components.