Telos is a developer platform that turns a written specification into a deployed, tested service. Developers draft a SPEC.md file, and Telos background agents build, deploy, and evaluate the result in an isolated virtual machine. The platform includes managed model classes, versioned skills, and a complete toolchain for building, testing, and operating bespoke software.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Building and deploying internal tools and services typically requires significant manual effort across coding, testing, and infrastructure setup. Developers often spend time on repetitive environment configuration and deployment tasks, slowing down the delivery of bespoke software tailored to specific business needs.
Solution
Telos provides a platform where developers write a specification in a SPEC.md file, and background agents automatically build, deploy, and evaluate the resulting service. Each goal runs in an isolated virtual machine with persistent state and artifacts, ensuring consistency across agent sessions. The platform includes a complete toolchain for building, testing, and operating services, along with managed model classes that handle provider routing and credentials. Versioned platform skills carry instructions, tools, and verification rubrics, allowing Telos to resolve the exact bundle needed before work begins.
Target Audience
Primary users are software developers and engineering teams building bespoke internal tools and services who want to automate the build, deployment, and evaluation process from a specification.
Features
- Spec-driven development workflow where a SPEC.md file is the single source of truth for what gets built and deployed
- Isolated virtual machine per goal with persistent state and artifacts across agent sessions
- Complete toolchain including Python, Node.js, Clang, Bazel, Git, pytest, Playwright, Chromium, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenTofu, and database/network/observability tools
- Managed model classes (telos/default and telos/max) with stable interfaces for balanced or frontier intelligence
- Versioned platform skills that carry instructions, tools, and verification rubrics with each goal
- Independent evaluation and acceptance checks that confirm a deployed revision is ready