Metnos

Metnos is an agent governor designed to run on a local computer: it governs agents whose operational scope is defined explicitly. The reference configuration acts as a personal and household assistant, but that is only one possible form, determined by the admitted executor catalog. With a different catalog, Metnos can support software maintenance, research, remote-system management, or another well-bounded operational domain. The core plans, judges, remembers, and records; executors determine what the system can actually do. What distinguishes Metnos, therefore, is not only its code but the structure of definitions that precedes and governs execution: which powers are granted, within which limits they may be exercised, and in what vocabulary the system communicates with the person who remains in control.

How this guide is arranged

The documentation describes the current product: an introductory guide, the interface map, a domain reference with natural-language examples, the components administered under System, and the Architecture guide with technical contracts. The tree on the left follows a teaching path: use first, then core concepts, the observable system, execution architecture, reasoning, operations, and finally further reading. Technical catalogs and the interface page are generated from runtime registries; the Tutor compiles these sources together with admitted manifests into a signed catalog. The public repository contains the code and installer needed to verify the documented contracts.

Dialogues

The dialogues are the thought behind Metnos put under the pressure of objection: not treatises, not specifications, but ideas made to answer an uncomfortable peer. The form is Galilean — two voices, both the author’s, one of which refuses to grant easy agreement. Not fiction: only the structure is dialogic, the content is real.