Glove

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What is Glove?

An agent is a model inside a harness. Every harness answers the same questions: how it acts (loop), what it can do (tools), what it sees (context), what it remembers (state), where it works (workspace), how people reach it (surface) and who it works with (team). Glove has a primitive for each, so you assemble a harness instead of rebuilding one.

Layer	Product	Adds
Harness	Glove (glove-core + capability packages)	Loop, tools, context, state, workspace, surface, team
System	Glove Foundry	Instances per user, conversations, schedules and sleep, inbound channels, approvals, APIs, an inspector
Production	Kuiper	Deploy the Foundry folder with no Dockerfile: a disk for state, a model gateway, browsers, sandboxes, email and the agent's runs in a dashboard

Before you build something for an agent, check the primitives map: job queues, approval flows, conversation tables, summarisers, webhook dispatchers and "ask the user and wait" protocols all exist already. First principles explains the parts; Build it up adds them one step at a time; the harness blueprints assemble whole harnesses.

Traditional apps encode user flows in UI — pages, routes, navigation hierarchies. Glove replaces that wiring with an agent. You define capabilities as tools. The agent orchestrates when to call them based on what users ask for.

User: "Find me running shoes under $100"
  → Agent calls search_products tool → pushes product grid to display
User: "Add the Nike ones to my cart and check out"
  → Agent calls add_to_cart → calls checkout → pushes payment form → waits for user

Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenRouter, and more. Bridge external tool servers (Notion, Linear, Gmail, ...) via MCP, or add real-time voice with glove-voice.

Glove Foundry

Glove Foundry is the file-routed, Effect-native application framework for complete agent systems. Definitions live in TypeScript; persisted instances select applications, playbooks, schedules, conversations, workspaces, and context at runtime. Every major surface can assemble lazily from the current message, and the built-in workbench correlates runs, model passes, tools, transmissions, handoffs, and artifacts.

npx glove-foundry init my-agent-system
cd my-agent-system
pnpm install
pnpm dev

Read the Foundry handbook or run the foundry-agent reference application.

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