> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://autonomy.computer/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# What is Autonomy?
> Autonomy is a platform-as-a-service to ship autonomous products.
The Autonomy Computer is a cloud-based runtime that lets you deploy, connect, and scale apps built with the Autonomy Framework. It provides infrastructure to ship products that use teams of **deep work agents** to autonomously perform long and complex tasks.
Each agent can plan, take notes on a filesystem, **curate context** on every turn, and delegate work to **parallel sub-agents**. Agents are modeled as **concurrent actors** that automatically form secure distributed clusters to enable massive scale on a tiny infrastructure footprint.
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## Autonomy Framework
The Autonomy Framework is an **open-source python framework** to develop apps that use thousands of collaborating **autonomous agents** to quickly and reliably get things done.
It provides simple python abstractions to define agents that use language models, manage their own context, remember their history of steps, and autonomously invoke tools to take actions.
Your apps can easily create **deep work agents** that excel at long and complex tasks. Each agent can access a **dedicated filesystem** to save plans, take **notes**, and record memories.
Agents can create many **sub-agents** that concentrate on sub-tasks. **Parallel agents**, each focused on a small part, achieve the overall goal faster. They are also more successful because the context that they provide to their language model contains much less noise.
## Autonomy Computer
The Autonomy Computer is a **cloud-based runtime** to deploy, connect, and scale apps built using the Autonomy Framework. It provides infrastructure to run highly scalable and secure autonomous AI products.
Using a simple [YAML config](/applications/file-structure#autonomy-yaml), you can spin up a [**dedicated cluster
of nodes**](/applications/runtime-architecture#cluster) in seconds. These nodes are automatically connected together using high-throughput, encrypted **messaging channels**.
Agents invoke tools to take actions and gather data. The Autonomy Computer can **provision tools** in containers right alongside the nodes that are running your agents. These tools can be Python functions, simple binaries, or MCP servers. You can also create **private links to enterprise data**.
The runtime is designed for **multi-tenant**, **streaming** workloads. Agents run as **stateful concurrent actors** that asynchronously send and receive messages. This enables effortless horizontal scaling and fan-out through powerful patterns like **distributed agentic map-reduce.**
## Autonomy Command
The Autonomy Command is a command-line tool to build apps using the Autonomy Framework and deploy them to the Autonomy Computer. It packages source code into container images and runs them in your cluster.
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