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AI · August 21, 2026

Cogitorium

Agent workflows with a model per agent — and a leash on each

What it does

Most agent tools give you one model, one vendor, and a bill you can't break down. Cogitorium lets you pick a model per agent, draw exactly who may hand work to whom, and see spend per agent — not a lump sum. Delegation, tools, memory and internet access are edges you draw, each enforced by the runtime. No telemetry, no phone-home. One Go binary, Apache-2.0, runs against frontier APIs or fully local models.

A single Go binary for graph engineering: agents are nodes and four kinds of edge are permissions the runtime checks. Free, Apache-2.0, macOS, Windows and Linux.

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