{"id":"agience-agience-core","name":"agience-core","homepage":"https://agience.ai","repo_url":"https://github.com/Agience/agience-core","category":"ai-ml","subcategories":[],"tags":["ai-agents","mcp","knowledge-management","semantic-search","provenance","workflow-automation","fastapi","opensearch","graph-database","runtime"],"what_it_does":"Agience Core is an open, extensible runtime for agentic AI centered on shared, typed, versioned “artifacts” with provenance and human-in-the-loop workflows. It is positioned as both an MCP server (exposing tools) and an MCP client (consuming vendor MCP servers), and emphasizes capability-based access via scoped API keys and delegations tracked by authority/provenance.","use_cases":["Shared knowledge/state layer for AI agents and humans (curation + automated reasoning)","Auditable decision/knowledge workflows with explicit provenance and authority","Building agent tool ecosystems via MCP (standalone services / content-type handlers)","Human-in-the-loop commit/approval flows for knowledge transformations","Semantic retrieval and knowledge graph/search use with OpenSearch (per repo topics)"],"not_for":["Drop-in chat-only chatbot UI solutions without a shared state/provenance model","A fully managed hosted SaaS with guaranteed uptime/SLA and proprietary licensing expectations","Use cases requiring no governance/audit trail or simple stateless APIs","Environments that cannot comply with AGPL-3.0 requirements for network-accessible deployments"],"best_when":"You need an auditable shared-state runtime where agents and humans operate on the same typed artifacts, with MCP-based extensibility and governance/provenance modeled as first-class architecture.","avoid_when":"You need a lightweight, minimal integration without standing up an MCP server/runtime, or you cannot accept AGPL obligations for network deployment/modification.","alternatives":["MCP-based agent tool runtimes and shared memory layers (various open-source implementations)","Document/graph DB + app-layer provenance/audit frameworks","Workflow engines (e.g., orchestration) combined with an MCP gateway and an artifacts store","Commercial agent platforms with built-in audit/provenance (where licensing allows)"],"af_score":34.8,"security_score":61.2,"reliability_score":20.0,"package_type":"mcp_server","discovery_source":["github"],"priority":"high","status":"evaluated","version_evaluated":null,"last_evaluated":"2026-03-30T15:27:06.322531+00:00","interface":{"has_rest_api":false,"has_graphql":false,"has_grpc":false,"has_mcp_server":true,"mcp_server_url":null,"has_sdk":false,"sdk_languages":[],"openapi_spec_url":null,"webhooks":false},"auth":{"methods":["Scoped API keys (capability-based access; as described in README)","Identity derived from auth token (as described in README)","Delegated operations with record of who authorized them (as described in README)"],"oauth":false,"scopes":true,"notes":"README indicates scoped API keys and delegation records, but does not provide concrete auth flow details, header formats, or scope naming conventions in the provided content."},"pricing":{"model":null,"free_tier_exists":false,"free_tier_limits":null,"paid_tiers":[],"requires_credit_card":false,"estimated_workload_costs":null,"notes":"No hosted pricing information in provided content; licensing indicates AGPL-3.0-only with commercial licensing for proprietary/closed-source use."},"requirements":{"requires_signup":false,"requires_credit_card":false,"domain_verification":false,"data_residency":[],"compliance":[],"min_contract":null},"agent_readiness":{"af_score":34.8,"security_score":61.2,"reliability_score":20.0,"mcp_server_quality":45.0,"documentation_accuracy":20.0,"error_message_quality":0.0,"error_message_notes":null,"auth_complexity":70.0,"rate_limit_clarity":10.0,"tls_enforcement":70.0,"auth_strength":75.0,"scope_granularity":80.0,"dependency_hygiene":30.0,"secret_handling":40.0,"security_notes":"Security claims are architectural (scoped API keys, identity from token, delegated operations tracked by authority). The provided content does not specify TLS enforcement, secret storage practices, or dependency/security maintenance details, so security scores beyond auth/scoping are estimates. License is AGPL-3.0-only; ensure operational practices support secure deployment and secret management.","uptime_documented":0.0,"version_stability":40.0,"breaking_changes_history":20.0,"error_recovery":20.0,"idempotency_support":"false","idempotency_notes":null,"pagination_style":"none","retry_guidance_documented":false,"known_agent_gotchas":["Provided README does not include concrete MCP server tool schemas, transport details, or error-handling conventions; agents may need to infer behaviors until full docs are available.","Idempotency/retry guidance is not documented in the provided content; agent runtimes should implement cautious retry logic for any state-changing operations.","Because it is positioned as a runtime with artifacts/provenance and human approval gates, agent flows may require explicit commit/approval steps to avoid unexpected “denied until commit” behavior."]}}