Druks

Druks is a self-hosted home for durable agent apps. It runs agents through connected harnesses. The included Software Factory app automates software delivery from a ticket to a reviewed pull request.

An ordinary agent script loses its place when the process dies. A Druks workflow records the result of each completed durable operation in Postgres. After a restart or deploy, Druks replays the workflow and reuses those recorded results instead of repeating completed work. If the process stops inside an operation, that operation can run again. Thus, side effects still require idempotency. Durability and recovery explains this boundary.

Install

The installer supports three deployment shapes backed by Drukbox:

• Docker: docker (default) starts local sandbox containers on the host Docker daemon.
• Remote: exe starts exe.dev sandbox VMs over a tailnet.
• Each other provider name selects the generic remote shape.

The default is the local shape, so the bare command boots a stack with no authored values:

curl -fsSL https://druks.ai/install.sh | bash

That command follows the edge channel while Druks has no stable release. Versioned releases use an installer script and an image from the same tag. The release process explains this method. Run the installer again to upgrade Druks.

Then follow full local setup. Connect the agent harnesses in the dashboard. Connect the GitHub App that software_factory uses. A standalone app can require different integrations.

Or hand the install to a coding agent — paste this into Claude Code, Codex, or any agent with shell access on the target machine:

Install druks on this machine by following https://raw.githubusercontent.com/czpython/druks/main/INSTALL.md exactly. Run each verification step. If a verification fails, stop. Show me the failed step and its output. Do not improvise a fix.

For a remote install, name the provider — exe for exe.dev VMs, any other Drukbox provider name for the generic remote shape:

curl -fsSL https://druks.ai/install.sh | DRUKS_PROVIDER=exe bash

The installer does not ask questions. The first run writes ~/druks/druks.toml with generated secrets. A remote shape can require values that only you know. These values include provider credentials and identity-edge details.

The installer prints this list and exits. Set the values in druks.toml. Then run the same command again.

See the deployment runbook for prerequisites, access control, verification, and rollback.

trigger ──> app workflow ──> durable step ──> agent ──> sandbox
                 │                     │              │
                 │                     │              └─ harness CLI
                 │                     └─ result checkpointed in Postgres
                 ├─ event ──> feed / app reaction
                 └─ gate  ──> wait for human or external system ──> resume

Platform and apps stay separate

Druks owns the execution and operating substrate:

• DBOS workflows and queues that use Postgres
• Typed human gates, cancellation, schedules, and observable run state
• Agent harness dispatch through isolated Drukbox sandboxes
• Append-only events, live feeds, webhooks, notifications, MCP servers, and skills
• Validated operator settings, encrypted MCP and OAuth secrets, and the dashboard shell
• App discovery, API namespaces, and independent migration histories.

An app owns its workflows, agents, domain models, routes, events, provider reactions, and optional dashboard pages. It is a Python distribution that uses the druks.apps entry-point group. Install the distribution to register it. Druks does not require an app-specific plugin list.

Scaffold one with the published CLI, no checkout required:

uvx --from druks druks create app night_watch

The generated project root carries an AGENTS.md with the contracts and a link to the authoring guide.

The bundled software_factory app is a concrete example. It coordinates coding agents through tickets and GitHub pull requests. GitHub pull-request orchestration belongs to software_factory, not to Druks.

Documentation

• Start here: Quickstart
• Understand recovery: Concepts and guarantees
• Build an app: Author guide
• Operate Druks: Deployment and configuration
• Diagnose a failure: Troubleshooting
• Contributing to Druks: Contribution guide
• Reporting a vulnerability: Security policy
• All documentation: docs.druks.ai.