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OpenAgents serves people who build, operate, and inspect agent-backed software. Authenticated users work with Sarah, delegated work, connected computers, memory, issues, projects, and source repositories. Operators qualify releases and monitor Forge and fleet state. Public visitors can inspect bounded product, source, and operational evidence without an account.

Product purpose

OpenAgents provides one public, self-hostable application for building and operating agent-backed software. It makes model activity, delegated work, repository changes, deployment state, and governing authority visible and verifiable. The product succeeds when users can move from an objective to a proven change without losing durable evidence or bypassing an authorization boundary.

Brand personality

Precise, transparent, and resilient. The interface communicates operational facts directly, distinguishes measured state from intent, and remains useful when part of the system is degraded.

Anti-references

• Generic software-as-a-service dashboards that decorate activity without showing evidence, authority, or failure state.
• Interfaces that hide agent actions behind an undifferentiated loading state.
• Competing component libraries, inconsistent controls, ornamental motion, and color-only status communication.
• Marketing claims that present planned, configured, or simulated behavior as completed production capability.

Design principles

• Show live operational truth with bounded, attributable evidence.
• Make authority and lifecycle state visible before offering an action.
• Preserve familiar controls and one consistent component vocabulary.
• Keep public projections useful while excluding credentials, private content, and unbounded transcripts.
• Design degraded, empty, loading, and recovery states as primary product states.

Accessibility and inclusion

Target WCAG 2.2 AA. Support keyboard navigation, visible focus, semantic structure, screen-reader status labels, and status distinctions that do not depend on color. Honor reduced-motion preferences and keep live updates bounded so assistive technology does not receive an uncontrolled event stream.