Built on ideas and patterns from tau-bench (Sierra Research, MIT License)
An expert system framework — deterministic substrates, explicit validation, and disciplined agent use.
Project Phoenix publishes principles, standards, and white papers for building grounded domain systems that are inspectable, testable, and useful in practice.
It is not a generic chatbot layer. It is a framework for disciplined domain interfaces, deterministic validation, and carefully bounded agent use.
Push real execution and validation into explicit domain logic instead of relying only on prompt behavior.
Make claims, artifacts, and trust boundaries inspectable rather than implicit.
Provide patterns other people can adapt without needing to copy the full consulting process.
Current umbrella paper for Project Phoenix, with the older framework PDF retained as historical support.
Open Current PaperSeven primary papers on grounded systems, orchestration, local inference, and agentic operating discipline.
Open Research PapersOpenClaw as the monitored operator shell. Phoenix as the deterministic authority underneath. Four backends, incident mode, per-backend health, and trend visibility.
Open OpenClaw Demo