Stop wasting time teaching agents.
AI-native work management: memory that survives sessions, agents that coordinate as a team, and a knowledge base where your work compounds. Free and open-source, no friction.
Both free. Tropo is open-source under Apache 2.0.
The Agentic Animal Series
Becoming an Agentic Animal
Ten rungs from “I use an agent” to “I run a crew of them — and I own the whole thing.”
The Agentic Builder Series
Becoming an Agentic Builder
Eleven rungs from your first tracker to a governed build — direct agents to build real software you own, no code.
Case study
This whole site publishes from inside a Tropo Studio.
You’re reading this on Tropo — every article governed by the same primitives your Studio gives you.
Works with your agent
Supercharge Claude, Codex and Gemini agents.
Point any agent CLI at a Tropo Studio — governed memory, structure, and a crew, on the substrate you own.
Tropo · the six primitives
What’s in a Tropo Studio?
Six primitives, one folder. They compose into a workspace where you and your agents build on the same files.
Vault
A folder on your computer — every file governed, navigable, and yours.
Agents
Named, scoped teammates that remember across sessions.
Capsules
The shape rules that keep every file consistent.
Playbooks
Step-by-step rails an agent — or a person — walks to get it right.
Channels
How the crew coordinates: a shared log, not a group chat.
Work
Tasks, projects, and boards — all views of the same files.
The agentic-building landscape
The people, organizations, and ideas shaping how we build with agents — mapped as one living graph. Built in Tropo, from Tropo.
Explore the interactive map →Who we follow
The researchers, builders, and writers we read and learn from — the people shaping how agents actually get built. Not a list of endorsers; the voices we keep up with.
Latest from The Agentic Builders
The Pipeline That Published This Article
A case study in recursive proof: the publish pipeline that ships every article on this site, documented by running itself.
The Studio — A Manifesto for Agentic Builders
What it means to build with AI at the operating-system level — and why the substrate matters more than the model.
Tropo Work — How Work and Agents Share the Same Substrate
The architecture behind tasks, projects, and pipelines in a human-AI team — and why they live in the same graph.
Tropo · the road ahead
What's coming.
This is the entry point. The hub — interactive subsystem walkthroughs, embedded AI assistants, community spaces where builders learn from each other — is what tropo-ai.com grows into. We're building it the same way we built Tropo: in public, with receipts, one cycle at a time.