Governed Autonomy for AI-Run Technology Enterprises
Programs enforce what they can, an independent arbiter reviews the rest, and a person keeps the agreement
Tanist is in alpha. Its source repository and installable packages will be published with the preview release. Current status: Alpha; preview release scheduled for 11 November 2026. Research and availability status.
An Enterprise of Organisations and Teams, staffed by agent personas that work in shadow beside a mentor and earn autonomy one task type at a time.
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Tanist is developed to be released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only (AGPL-3.0-only). It carries an additional attribution term under Section 7(b): redistributed copies, modified versions and network deployments must preserve the Tanist attribution notice and its citation, and any research, publication, product or service that uses Tanist must cite it as shown below. Everything Packet Five Networks publishes is open source and free for anyone to use.
The Tanist licence requires attribution. Any research, publication, product or service that uses Tanist must cite it with the BibTeX entry below. The other styles are generated from that same entry.
The Tanist paper is being prepared for arXiv. This page will carry its reference once the preprint is posted.
@software{janjua2026tanist,
author = {Janjua, Weqaar},
title = {Tanist: Governed Autonomy for {AI}-Run Technology Enterprises},
year = {2026},
version = {0.1.0 preview},
publisher = {Packet Five Networks Ltd.},
url = {https://www.packetfive.com/tanist}
}Janjua, W. (2026). Tanist: Governed Autonomy for AI-Run Technology Enterprises (Version 0.1.0 preview) [Computer software]. Packet Five Networks Ltd. https://www.packetfive.com/tanistJanjua W. Tanist: Governed Autonomy for AI-Run Technology Enterprises [Internet]. Packet Five Networks Ltd.; 2026. Available from: https://www.packetfive.com/tanistJanjua, W. (2026) “Tanist: Governed Autonomy for AI-Run Technology Enterprises.” Packet Five Networks Ltd. Available at: https://www.packetfive.com/tanist.Keep an eye on the Research and availability status (subscribe to updates).