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Automata

Automata is an open-source Elixir framework for creating systems of concurrent intelligent agents that can coordinate or act independently across one or more environments. It organizes agent design around environment representations, reasoning, and knowledge or memory, and describes decentralized operation without a central point of failure.

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Practical overview

When it fits

Use Automata to explore or prototype decentralized agent-system designs, especially when concurrency, agent coordination, or alternative reasoning and memory structures matter.

Who it is for

  • AI designers prototyping multi-agent systems.
  • Developers exploring decentralized, concurrent agent behavior.
  • Researchers interested in behavior trees, reinforcement learning, or neuroevolution approaches.

Documented uses

  • Prototype a mock behavior-tree agent sequence.
  • Design agents around environment state, decision-making, and memory.
  • Explore systems in which agents coordinate objectives or act independently.
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Requirements & limits

The repository identifies the project as open source under the Apache-2.0 license.

  • The README identifies Elixir and OTP as foundations for concurrency and distribution, and Nx for numerical computation.
  • The repository labels the project Alpha and says it is not ready for production systems.
  • The README distinguishes its current mock behavior-tree example from heterogeneous-agent communication described as future work.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Start the documented mock agent sequence

Run the repository’s mock sequence in an IEx shell.

Before you start

  • The Automata repository.
  • An Elixir project environment with Mix and IEx available.

Steps

  1. From the project, start an IEx shell with iex -S mix.

  2. At the IEx prompt, enter Automata.spawn().

Expected outcome

Invokes the mock sequence described by the repository as its current behavior-tree example.

Guide limitations

  • The repository marks the project Alpha and not ready for production systems.
  • The README identifies this as a mock sequence; it does not document a general deployment workflow.
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ProjectDocumented purposePlatformAccess and requirements
AutomataPrototype a mock behavior-tree agent sequence.The repository identifies the project as open source under the Apache-2.0 license.
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16 October 2026
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upstarter/automata · Official homepage title · retained in its source language
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