FAQ
Is Nori open source?
Section titled “Is Nori open source?”Partly, by design. The CLI and Skillsets client are open source. Sessions and Handroll are the managed product. This “open-core” split is deliberate: the open source lets you run agents yourself; the product runs them for you.
Which agents / harnesses does Nori support?
Section titled “Which agents / harnesses does Nori support?”Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini ship as built-ins in the CLI, and anything that speaks the Agent Client Protocol can be registered as a custom agent. “Any harness” is the goal, not a slogan.
Do I bring my own model API keys?
Section titled “Do I bring my own model API keys?”Yes. You bring your own token per provider (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, …). Nori orchestrates the agent; the model relationship stays yours.
Where do managed agents actually run?
Section titled “Where do managed agents actually run?”On a secure cloud VM from a pluggable backend (Sprites or Modal today), selected per fleet. The compute layer is designed to be swappable — see Core concepts.
How is this different from using one agent’s cloud offering?
Section titled “How is this different from using one agent’s cloud offering?”Single-vendor clouds lock you to one harness, one provider, one runtime. Nori is the customizable stack: any harness, any token, any integrations, any compute — managed for you, or composed by you.
Something’s missing or wrong in these docs.
Section titled “Something’s missing or wrong in these docs.”That’s a bug. Open an issue in the GitHub org, or use the “Edit page” link in the footer.
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