> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.runr5e.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# r5e — Governed AI Orchestration

> The orchestration substrate that makes AI agents auditable, accountable, and deployable in regulated environments.

# r5e

**Labs solve intelligence. We solve how to apply it.**

r5e is a governed substrate for turning intent into outcomes. It provides a declarative API for orchestrating AI agents with cryptographic provenance from the first prompt to the final artifact.

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    Governed agent sessions with explicit authority, bounded delegation, and mandatory independent review.
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  <Card title="AI Gateway" icon="shield-halved" href="/products/ai-gateway">
    Audit every AI interaction. Enforce policy. Prevent shadow AI. Produce verifiable compliance evidence.
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## Three planes

Everything in r5e maps to one of three architectural planes:

| Plane                | Purpose                                        | Examples                                  |
| -------------------- | ---------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| **Durable Control**  | Resources and graphs — semantic truth          | Graph, Node, Task, AgentSession, Policy   |
| **Live Execution**   | OTP processes — operational state              | Agent sessions, harness processes         |
| **Historical Audit** | Events and artifacts — what happened, provably | Hash-chained log, content-addressed store |

Everything else — dashboards, CLIs, these docs — is a projection.

## Principles

1. **Transparency from the root node.** Every action traceable to its origin.
2. **Labs solve intelligence; we solve applying it.** Intelligence is pluggable. Governance is ours.
3. **Extensibility is architecture.** Everything goes through the same admission pipeline.
4. **Design for symbiosis.** Works at every point on the autonomy spectrum.
5. **Contracts, not implementations.** The spec says what and why.

## Status

r5e is in **private alpha**. Built on Elixir/OTP. Open source release planned under AGPL.

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  What r5e is, how it works, and what your role is in the system.
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