Open-source agentic substrate · Apache 2.0
Apps are text — files you can read in Notepad. AI is the runtime that executes them. Open source isn't a license you choose; it's what the format does automatically. No vendor, no installer, no walled garden.
npm install -g @aware-aeco/cli
Runs on claude-code · codex · opencode — whatever you already use. Your AI is the runtime.
AWARE turns any software into an agent — skills + commands your existing AI composes into plain-text apps. There's no new app to learn: your terminal is the front door.
$ npm install -g @aware-aeco/cli # any OS
✓ aware CLI installed
$ aware agent install tekla # any software → an agent
$ aware agent install trimble-connect
✓ tekla · Tekla Open API, version-pinned
✓ trimble-connect · REST
$ claude-code # or codex, or opencode
✓ plugin: aware-aeco · 66 agents · 3,282 skills
> From this Tekla model, export each welded assembly's
drawing to my Trimble Connect fab folder.
→ AWARE hands your AI the tekla + trimble-connect skills;
it writes the integration and saves it as plain text —
readable, forkable, open source by being a file:
→ ~/.aware/apps/welded-to-tc
$ aware app run welded-to-tcA real Tekla → Trimble Connect integration. One sentence. Plain text. Sixty seconds. For decades that was “buy a $40,000 plugin” or “hire two devs for six months.” AWARE removes the question.
Every agent here is installable today with aware agent install <name>.
This list is generated straight from the registry on every build, so it never goes stale.
Everything else composes out of these.
aware agent build
Point the builder at a DLL folder, a NuGet package, an OpenAPI spec, a COM type
library, a Python module, or a CLI's --help. Out comes a working
agent: manifest + skills + commands, license-aware, version-pinnable.
One engineer can wire the entire AECO toolchain in a week — without writing custom integration code for any of it.
exposes-as-agent: true
Compose agents into an app, mark it exposes-as-agent: true, and it
appears in the registry as if it were an agent. Others install it with
aware app install and use it as one node — never seeing the internals.
This is npm for AECO expertise. Decades of knowledge stop dying with the people who hold it.
The fastest way to understand a substrate is the lines it refuses to cross.
Short enough to fit in your head, blunt enough to argue with. Every design decision is checked against them. Break one and the project is over.
Not metaphorically. Literally. If you can't open it with cat, it's not an AWARE app.
AI is the thing that executes the text. Swap the model; the text outlives it.
Not a license decision — a property of the format. Sharing the app is sending the file.
No installer, no walled garden, no “Cloud tier.” Text plus a runtime you can swap.
The substrate doesn't know what AECO is — it just runs paragraphs. The pattern is universal.
Apps are scratchpads. The artifact others install and compose is an agent.
Author every app as if its destiny is to become one node in a bigger graph.
A UI over an LLM is a moat that vanishes the moment users reach the model directly.
The LLM authors the plain‑text app. Validation, approval, and sealing stay deterministic.
No build system to learn. No CI pipeline to fight. No boilerplate generators. Markdown PRs.
Bootstrap from any DLL / NuGet / COM / OpenAPI / CLI source, refine the skills, open a PR.
Compose existing agents into something useful, mark it exposes-as-agent: true, push it.
Skills are plain markdown. Find a gotcha that bit you; add a paragraph to the skill file.
Apache 2.0 — permissive, patent grant, no walled garden. Open by construction.