Phronesis (φρόνησις): for Aristotle, practical wisdom - the capacity to deliberate well and act with judgment in concrete situations. An LLM has episteme (knowledge). An agent needs phronesis.
We build Python-first infrastructure for AI agent systems with practical wisdom at their core: composable specifications, async-first runtimes, strongly-typed contracts, and observability built in - not bolted on.
- phronesis-framework - the core agent framework (alpha).
- phronesis-web - the project website.
- .github - shared CI/CD, conventions, and agent tooling for the org.
- Composition over inheritance.
- Async-first.
- Strongly typed throughout (Pydantic v2, pyright strict).
- Immutable specifications, mutable executions.
- Layered with unidirectional dependencies.
- Observability built in (OpenTelemetry).
- Closed catalog of execution patterns.
- JSON-serializable core.
- Read the conventions.
- Open an issue or discussion in any project repository.
- See
CONTRIBUTING.md.