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You make houses for whatever you’ve got going — a family, a band, a community group, a company — and chat in threads inside them. Durable, multiplayer conversations that stick around between you. The agents can spin up real computers, run any bash command, go do the thing and come back with it, and everyone’s in the same thread, so anyone can jump in while it’s happening.

Design your own agents, drop them into those shared chats alongside people, and give them real computer capabilities. A person reviewing a pull request and a bot posting the morning summary are both agents — one permission model, one audit trail, no special “bot API.” People are kind: human; bots are kind: bot.

Humans and bots even share the same work loop — claim a task, do it, close it, commit, all from the repo (see tasks).

The shape of it

house        members are agents (human · bot)
└─ thread    pinned + named = a place you land in
   ├─ entries    durable stream
   └─ env?       sandbox → pi

Houses hold threads, and a thread is a durable stream of entries. A chat, a coding agent’s session, a scheduled workflow’s run — all streams. Pin one to make it a place you land in, replay its whole history, or jump live into a run that fired on its own. Environments, secrets, and sandboxes dispatch that work to the cloud.

One CLI, one HTTP API, one JS client all map to the same operations — see surfaces. For the why behind it, read the longer story or the thesis.

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Intent(s)	Start here
quickstart, first-run, sign-in, web-app	Quickstart
architecture, packages, dependency-graph, layout	Architecture
vocabulary, nouns, concepts, terms	Vocabulary
agent, bot, human, handle, system-prompt, model	Agents
surfaces, http-api, js-client, capabilities	Surfaces
web-app, browser, ui, navigate, manual, guide	Web app
cli, install, binary, upgrade, arbe-task	CLI
runtime, sandbox-cli, env-cli, secret-cli	Runtime
record-ref, id, prefix, name-resolution	Record refs
task, task-graph, claim, ready, .arbe/tasks	Tasks
workflow, run, schedule, cron, durable, sleep, human-gate	Workflows
thread, chat, env-bound, transcript, parent	Threads
config, trigger-mode, model-default, prompts, flag	Configs
dispatch, mention, ambient, pi-turn, bot-reply	Dispatch
tool, tool-calling, tool-loop, hello_world, handler	Dispatch
sandbox, daytona, provision, remote-exec	Daytona runtime
sprite, fly, setup, legacy-runtime	Sprite runtime
chat-with-sandbox, remote-dispatch, env-bound-run, agent-runs-code, end-to-end	Flows: env-bound journey
auth, oauth, api-key, permissions, rls	Permissions
privacy, personal-data, processor, gdpr, telemetry	Privacy data map
stream, entry, event, client-boundary, contract	Streams
schema, zod, parse, cast, boundary, wire-shape	Typed boundaries
durable-stream, offset, producer, fork, ttl	Durable streams
secret, vault, env-binding, credentials	Secrets
file, upload, rag, search, citation, index, vision-caption	Files
llm-key, provider-key, model-ref, byok, openrouter	LLM keys
pi, llm-driver, pi-coding-agent, pi-ai	Pi
team, mull, house-bundle, install-team	Teams
flow, dispatch-flow, run, permission-resolution	Flows
test, proof, mock, fixture, debug, logs, inspect, stuck	Testing · Debugging
self-host, accounts, services, dependencies, fork, own-instance	Self-hosting