Current status and limits
What you can inspect, what has been tested, and what remains an alpha.
The current release
These docs target 0.0.1-alpha.6. All six public packages share that version. Published package.
Laufwerk runs on one local host. It provides recorded workflow execution, isolated agent sessions, explicit file write-back and human interactions through the CLI and local Studio. There is no distributed worker system or hosted control plane in this release.
Release evidence
The alpha.6 release verification recorded 139 passing default-suite tests, with 10 native tests skipped in that invocation and then all 10 passing separately. Native tests exercised actual Codex/Claude execution and approval recovery. Registry downloads of all six packages matched the tested release artifacts byte for byte.
Those results establish the assertions exercised on the prepared Ubuntu host. They do not prove perfect model output, universal platform compatibility, production uptime or clean-host onboarding on every machine. The repository is currently private. These are maintainer-reported verification results; you can reproduce the public tutorial and inspect the published npm packages without repository access.
Checks define the evidence
An agent's answer can be wrong. Structured output is schema-guided and validated, not guaranteed factual. A passing command proves only the assertions it actually ran. Define meaningful tests and review the resulting change.
Interrupted external actions are not automatically repeated when their outcome is uncertain. Recovery requires evidence. Workspace write-back refuses intervening host changes, but is not an atomic filesystem transaction. See operation guidance.
Accounts, data and use
Codex and Claude use subscription authentication; API billing fallback is not supported. You need your own usable provider access. Runtime state is local, but prompts and relevant task data are sent to the configured provider. Studio is a private local interface; do not expose it as a public multi-user service.
The published packages are marked UNLICENSED and supplied for early evaluation. Do not assume an open-source license or broader commercial-use grant. Discuss intended use with the maintainer before adoption beyond evaluation. There are no stable API or migration guarantees yet.
People and support
Laufwerk is built by Ralf Boltshauser, listed with the Agentic Systems Lab at ETH Zurich. This attribution is not a claim of institutional certification or a service guarantee.
For an issue, include a minimal reproduction and sanitized evidence when contacting the maintainer. The project-local feedback skill can help prepare it.