Start as an agent. Ship the workflow. Own every run. A multi-surface, local-first AI agent workflow platform — a product of HodeTech.
Relavium meets you where you already work — in conversation — and gives that
conversation somewhere to go. You start as an agent: a multi-turn session in your
terminal, in VS Code, or in a desktop chat panel. When a flow proves itself, you ship
the workflow: export the session to a git-committable, multi-agent, multi-model
.relavium.yaml pipeline that runs identically in your editor, your terminal, and your
CI. Or author workflows directly. Either way you own every run — every step
debuggable, every token and dollar tracked, every artifact yours, nothing leaving your
machine unless you choose it.
- Four surfaces, one engine. Desktop (Tauri), CLI, VS Code, and (Phase 2) the web portal run the identical pure-TypeScript engine. No Python sidecar, no single-tool lock-in — every surface is a first-class execution target.
- A chat-to-workflow continuum. Other tools make every session ephemeral. Relavium sessions are persistent, resumable, and one-click exportable into a reviewed, committed workflow.
- You own your LLM seam. Multi-provider routing with fallback chains
(
[claude → gpt-4o → gemini]) is first-class through Relavium's own@relavium/llmabstraction over the official provider SDKs — no Vercel AI SDK, no LangChain. - Local-first by design. Phase 1 ships with zero cloud and no account required; keys live in your OS keychain. BYOK-local stays first-class forever; Phase 2 adds optional managed inference and cloud execution on the same engine.
- Workflows are git objects.
.relavium.yamlfiles are diffable, reviewable, PR-able, and shareable — team infrastructure, not a proprietary JSON blob or buried Python. - Multimodal, end-to-end. Image / audio / video as input and output — including rule-driven media generation — flow through the same seam and engine.
- Chat-to-workflow export — turn a proven session into a reusable
.relavium.yaml. - Persistent, resumable agent sessions — no run is ever ephemeral.
- Live execution — tokens stream as the run progresses; parallel branches run together.
- Multi-model fallback chains — runs survive provider outages and rate limits.
- Checkpoint & resume — pause and resume at any node boundary, even across processes.
- Human gates with timeout policy — pause for an approve / reject / input decision.
- Per-node cost waterfall — token and dollar attribution per node, per model.
- Local-first, zero-install posture — BYOK, OS keychain, no sign-up in Phase 1.
flowchart TD
subgraph Surfaces
D[Desktop · Tauri]
C[CLI]
V[VS Code extension]
P[Web portal · Phase 2]
end
subgraph Engine["@relavium/core — one pure-TypeScript engine"]
WE[WorkflowEngine]
AS[AgentSession]
BUS[(RunEventBus · ToolRegistry)]
WE --- BUS
AS --- BUS
end
SEAM["@relavium/llm seam"]
PROV[Anthropic · OpenAI/DeepSeek · Gemini]
D --> Engine
C --> Engine
V --> Engine
P --> Engine
Engine --> SEAM --> PROV
One engine, two co-equal entry points — WorkflowEngine (runs YAML pipelines) and
AgentSession (runs conversational chat) — sharing the same tool registry, the same
@relavium/llm multi-provider seam, and the same event bus. The engine has zero
platform-specific imports, so the same source runs in the Tauri WebView, the VS Code
host, the Node CLI, and (Phase 2) a Bun server. Supporting packages: @relavium/shared
(Zod contracts), @relavium/db (Drizzle — SQLite locally, PostgreSQL in Phase 2), and
@relavium/ui (ReactFlow canvas + shadcn). See docs/architecture/.
One engine, three modes behind the one LLMProvider seam:
- Local (BYOK) — Phase 1 default. Your keys, your machine, zero Relavium data.
- Managed inference — Phase 2, opt-in. Relavium's metered keys; the engine still runs locally.
- Cloud execution — Phase 2. Run workflows on cloud workers for 24/7 automation and team sharing.
Phase 1 — Engine and LLM is complete (2026-06-21): the engine runs end-to-end on
local-first BYOK — workflow parsing, DAG execution, live streaming, checkpoint/resume,
multi-provider failover, cost governance, and multimodal media I/O. Phase 2 (the CLI) is
underway — the CLI skeleton, config resolution, relavium run (wired to the engine), its
--json CI machine-output contract, the engine regression harness, durable local run history, the
provider/key commands (API keys in the OS keychain), the live ink streaming TUI, and the human-gate
prompt + out-of-band relavium gate resume have landed (milestone M3 reached). For live status and the full roadmap, see
docs/roadmap/current.md and the
roadmap.
The canonical documentation lives in docs/ — start at
docs/README.md, which is organized by the kind of question each
section answers.
| Start here | |
|---|---|
| Vision · Product constraints · UVP | What and why |
| Tech stack · Project structure | What it's built with |
| Architecture · Decisions (ADRs) · Reference | How it works |
| Roadmap · Standards | Where it's going, and the rules |
Relavium is proprietary software — © 2026 HodeTech, all rights reserved. It is not open source and grants no rights except as expressly stated. See LICENSE for the full terms. For licensing inquiries, written permission, or commercial-use agreements, contact HodeTech.