# Autonomous AI Agents Guide

> A guide to autonomous AI agents from Kortix, the open-source AI Operating System: what starts a run, where the rules live and who merges the work.

Every page has a markdown twin (linked below) and the whole site is in [llms-full.txt](https://autonomousaiagentsguide.com/llms-full.txt).

## Pages

- [Home](https://autonomousaiagentsguide.com/index.md): Autonomous AI agents start on a schedule, a webhook or an app event, and open source Kortix lands each run as a change request a person merges.
- [What they are](https://autonomousaiagentsguide.com/what-are-autonomous-ai-agents.md): An open-source definition of autonomous AI agents, built from three testable parts: what starts a run, what it may touch and where the work lands.
- [Oversight](https://autonomousaiagentsguide.com/autonomous-vs-human-in-the-loop.md): Autonomous or human in the loop is three choices: a person at each step, at each tool call, or at the merge. Compare three open-source levels.
- [Open source](https://autonomousaiagentsguide.com/open-source-autonomous-ai-agents.md): Four open source autonomous AI agents compared on where their rules and memory live, how a run starts, and whether a person merges what it produced.
- [Examples](https://autonomousaiagentsguide.com/autonomous-agent-examples.md): Four open-source autonomous agent examples, each shown as the trigger that fired it, the tools it used and the change a person received at the end.
- [Running unattended](https://autonomousaiagentsguide.com/running-an-agent-with-nobody-watching.md): Set up an open source agent that fires on a schedule or a signed webhook, works on its own branch and lands as a change request a person merges.

## Kortix

- [Kortix](https://kortix.com): The open-source AI Operating System.
- [Kortix docs](https://kortix.com/docs): installing, self-hosting and configuring Kortix.
- [Kortix on GitHub](https://github.com/kortix-ai/suna): the open-source repository.