animaworks

# AnimaWorks — Organization-as-Code

**No one can do anything alone. So I built an organization.**

A framework that treats AI agents not as “tools” but as people who work autonomously. Each Anima has a name, personality, memory, and schedule; they coordinate by message, decide for themselves, and move as a team. Talk to the leader — the rest runs on its own.

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  <img src="docs/images/workspace-dashboard.gif" alt="AnimaWorks Workspace — real-time org tree with live activity feeds" width="720">
  <br><em>Workspace dashboard: each Anima’s role, status, and recent actions are visible in real time.</em>
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  <img src="docs/images/workspace-demo.gif" alt="AnimaWorks 3D Workspace — agents collaborating autonomously" width="720">
  <br><em>3D office: Animas sit at desks, walk around, and exchange messages on their own.</em>
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**[日本語版 README](README_ja.md)** | **[简体中文 README](README_zh.md)** | **[한국어 README](README_ko.md)**

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## How It Compares

|  | AnimaWorks | CrewAI | LangGraph | OpenClaw | OpenAI Agents |
|--|-----------|--------|-----------|----------|---------------|
| **Design philosophy** | Organization of autonomous agents | Role-based teams | Graph workflows | Personal assistant | Lightweight SDK |
| **Memory** | Neuroscience-inspired: RAG (Chroma + graph), consolidation, three-stage forgetting, six-channel automatic priming (with trust tags) | Cognitive Memory (manual forget) | Checkpoints + cross-thread store | SuperMemory knowledge graph | Session-scoped only |
| **Autonomy** | Heartbeat (observe → plan → reflect) + Cron + TaskExec — runs 24/7 | Human-triggered | Human-triggered | Cron + heartbeat | Human-triggered |
| **Org structure** | Supervisor → subordinate hierarchy, delegation, audit, dashboard | Flat roles in a crew | — | Single agent | Handoffs only |
| **Process model** | One isolated OS process per agent, IPC, auto-restart | Shared process | Shared process | Single process | Shared process |
| **Multi