Jixu
Define one Agent. Give it Tools and Skills. Continue its work in a durable Thread.
Jixu is a small single-Agent Harness for TypeScript. Recovery, replay, context continuity, and side-effect control stay beneath one direct API.
Jixu is pre-1.0. The public API may change before 1.0.
Start
npm install -g jixu-ai
jixu
Global installation also works with pnpm add -g jixu-ai and
bun add -g jixu-ai. Or run Jixu without installing it:
npx jixu-ai
# pnpm dlx jixu-ai
# yarn dlx jixu-ai
# bunx jixu-ai
The package launcher requires Node.js 22.19.0 or newer. The native TUI supports macOS arm64 and Linux x64 with glibc; Intel macOS is not supported. Bun is not required at runtime.
Framework
npm install jixu-core jixu-llm jixu-store-sqlite
import { createHarness, defineAgent } from "jixu-core";
import {
createLLMModelDriver,
resolveLLMModelCapabilities,
} from "jixu-llm";
import { SqliteEventStore } from "jixu-store-sqlite";
const connection = {
api: "openai-chat-completions" as const,
apiKey: process.env.MODEL_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.openai.com/v1",
model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
};
const modelCapabilities = await resolveLLMModelCapabilities(connection);
const agent = defineAgent({
instructions: "Be precise and verify your work.",
model: { provider: "model", model: connection.model },
modelCapabilities,
tools: [],
});
const harness = createHarness({
agent,
modelDrivers: {
model: createLLMModelDriver({
api: connection.api,
apiKey: connection.apiKey,
baseURL: connection.baseURL,
maxOutputTokens: modelCapabilities.maxOutputTokens,
}),
},
store: new SqliteEventStore("./jixu.db"),
});
const thread = await harness.createThread();
const state = await thread.send("Review this design and identify its main risk.");
console.log(state.result);
Model capacity is resolved before Agent creation and frozen in its snapshot.
Jixu accepts authoritative endpoint metadata, a versioned first-party catalogue
for recognized direct endpoints, or
explicit: { contextWindowTokens, maxOutputTokens } for a custom deployment.
Ambiguity fails closed. Context Policy works within those verified limits; it
does not silently tune provider generation defaults.
Threads begin in standard mode. await thread.setMode("ultra") durably asks
the same model and protocol for the strongest compatible reasoning effort.
Thread input can preserve ordered text and image parts. Image bytes are stored as verified immutable Artifacts; durable Events contain references, never raw bytes.
Design
The Agent is immutable configuration. The Thread is one durable history. The ordered Event log is the sole authority, and State is its deterministic projection. External work has one path:
Event -> Reducer -> Effect -> Driver -> Event
Replay dispatches no live Driver. Unknown persisted data fails closed. Secrets never enter Events, State, Checkpoints, errors, or Signals.
Read SPEC.md for the product contract and CONTRIBUTING.md for development guidance.
License
MIT