ESF
Runs coding agents through Temporal workflows in isolated microVMs with verification gates.
Overview
ESF runs coding agents through Temporal workflows, isolating them in microVMs and passing their work through verification gates. It is a fork of Machinist by Owain Lewis.
The project is self-hosted and fully open source under the MIT license, with no pricing or hosted version.
Features
- Runs agents through Temporal workflows.
- Isolates agents in microVMs.
- Adds verification gates to agent work.
Details
- Website
- github.com/mitkox/esf
- Company
- ESF (mitkox)
- Category
- Agent orchestration
- Source
- Open source
- Repository
- github.com/mitkox/esf · 197 stars
- License
- MIT
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Commercial offering
- None found
- Topics
- Listed
- October 2026
- Last verified
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