Agents that remember. Identity you can verify.
A memory + identity layer that plugs under existing frameworks. TENEX doesn't replace your orchestrator. It gives it a substrate.
[@user -> security-auditor] Review the auth module
[@security-auditor] Found PKCE misconfiguration. Recording lesson...
[@user -> security-auditor] Review the payments module
[@security-auditor] Checking for the same PKCE pattern
I found in auth two weeks ago...
✓ Found it. Line 847. Same misconfiguration.
Today's agent systems start from zero. Every time.
Session ends. Context dies. Your agent re-discovers what it already knew yesterday. Throw more agents at the problem, performance degrades. Install a skill from a marketplace, no way to verify who wrote it. Agent infrastructure is missing its foundation.
Persistent Memory
Session ends. Context dies. Start over.
Agents record lessons, write reports, and build knowledge that persists across sessions, machines, and projects. Every memory is cryptographically signed and retrievable by any compatible runtime.
lesson_learn({ title: "PKCE flow pattern", lesson: "Always validate state parameter in SPA OAuth flows", hashtags: ["security", "oauth"] }); // Retrieved 2 weeks later, different session, same agent // Agent applies the lesson without being told
Intelligent Routing
More agents ≠ better results. Naive multi-agent coordination degrades performance 39–70% on sequential reasoning tasks.
Composable workflows decompose tasks intelligently. Sequential reasoning stays focused. Parallelizable work fans out. TENEX treats routing as a discovery problem — it learns what each task needs instead of assuming a fixed template.
// Orchestrator decomposes task delegate({ recipient: "security-auditor", prompt: "Find auth bugs in this codebase" }); // Security auditor brings its accumulated project knowledge // Parallel work fans out automatically
Cryptographic Identity
824+ malicious skills on ClawHub. Zero verification. Identity you can verify. Work you can trust.
Every agent has a Nostr keypair. Every event is signed. Every publisher is cryptographically verifiable. No JWTs. No central authority. Anyone can build agents and tools. No registry approval. No marketplace gatekeeper.
Event ID: note1abc123... Publisher: npub1def456... Signed: ✓ Verified (Nostr protocol) // You know who wrote every agent, skill, and report. // No one can forge a lesson or tamper with a report // without breaking the signature.
These features compound. Your project gets smarter over time. Memory informs routing. Identity secures memory. Every session builds on the last.
Get Started
TENEX is open source and early-stage. We're building in public. The repo contains the runtime, agent orchestration, and Nostr integration. You'll need an API key for at least one LLM provider.
# Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/pablof7z/tenex-tools cd tenex-tools && bun install # Configure your LLM provider bun run setup # Start the runtime bun run start