The operating system for human-AI teams.
Tropo turns a shared folder into a governed multi-agent system. No code. No server. No database. Describe how you work — the system captures it, and your expertise runs without you.
Tropo has been developed and dogfooded internally for months; v1.73.0 is its first public release. The team builds Tropo with Tropo.
You need a folder-aware AI tool — one that can read and write files on your computer. Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, or similar.
- Download and unpack this vault
- Open your AI tool and point it at this folder
- Say: "read START-TROPO.md"
Your vault concierge will greet you and walk you through setting up your first agent.
- Agents as files. A markdown file with structured metadata. Create the file and the agent exists.
- Governance built in. Every agent has a scope, a governor, and rules. Authority flows from your operating agreement.
- Memory that survives. When a session ends, the work persists. When an agent is replaced, knowledge transfers.
- Work management built in. Tropo Work — tasks, boards, and projects — ships with every vault. See
vault/files/d61ce0a7.md. - Your rules, your way. You define how your agents work, what they can access, and what "good" looks like.
- A folder-aware AI tool (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, or any AI with filesystem access)
- That's it
- tropo-ai.com
- The Agentic Builders — our newsletter for non-technical leaders building with AI
Tropo grows through what people build with it: agents, capsules, and studio templates. See CONTRIBUTING.md, and show us what you made.
Apache License 2.0 — see LICENSE for the full text. See ADR 4a4a1235 for the license-reversal decision record (AGPL-3 → Apache 2.0 at v1.41.0; 2026-05-18).
Tropo-OS v1.73.0 | The file is the agent. The folder is the workspace. The vault is the OS.