Explanation

These pages discuss why Everruns is shaped the way it is. They don’t tell you how to do anything (see How-to guides) and they aren’t lookup tables (see Reference). They’re here to give you a mental model so the other docs make sense.

Read these when:

• You’re evaluating Everruns and want to understand the design.
• A reference page tells you what something is but you want to know why it exists.
• You’re about to make an architectural decision and want to know which guarantees you can rely on.

Topics

• Core concepts — the entity model: harnesses, agents, sessions, capabilities, and how they compose into a runtime.
• The agentic loop — the reason–act cycle, execution phases, and why turns are bounded.
• Architecture — control plane, workers, and the API-first design.
• Durable execution — why agents survive crashes, and the trade-offs of a PostgreSQL-backed engine.
• Events as the primary store — why an append-only event log is the source of truth, not a side-channel.