# Manifesto

Billions of dollars are being poured into AI agent orchestration.
Entire startups exist to run agents in the cloud.
The coding tools themselves are racing to become orchestrators.
Everyone is building the platform.

**We don't need another platform.
We need tools that get out of the way and let us work.**

## What We Believe

1. **Orchestration should be boring.** The interesting part is the work your agents do — not the system that dispatches them.

2. **Your workflows are yours.** We don't impose a framework. `letai run "fix the bug"` is a complete command.

3. **No vendor. No lock-in. No moat.** Claude Code, Codex, Amp, Aider — we dispatch whatever CLI agent you point at.

4. **Local-first is a feature, not a limitation.** Your code is on your machine. Your agents should be too.

5. **Security is the default, not the flag.** The industry norm is --dangerously-skip-permissions and hope. Our default is isolation.

6. **Background agents are a feature, not a product.** Dispatch an agent, walk away, it keeps working in its tmux session.

7. **Open source is the point, not the license.** Not open-core. No enterprise edition. Infrastructure belongs to everyone.

8. **The community builds the orchestrator.** We build the plumbing. The best configurations come from people using this daily.

## Why "Liwala"?

It means "he who governs." That's what these tools do — they govern the chaos of AI-assisted development.

The name encodes both contributors: **Li** from Luisa/Lima, **Wa** from Walid, **La** from the shared sound.