An objective becomes local work. Managers break down the goal, delegate tasks, and review the results. Executors implement and validate candidate changes in isolated Git worktrees.
Each task has a place. An accepted software version records what has been built; a repository path defines context, responsibility, and scope. CONTEXT.md files make these local contracts explicit.
Accepted results carry forward. The hierarchy unfolds as development proceeds. Agents finish their episodes; software versions and project history remain as the starting point for subsequent work.
Download Genesis → for macOS, Linux, or Windows. The website selects the installer for your platform; all published builds are available in GitHub Releases.
Install and open Genesis.
Choose a model provider and model, and configure your API credentials.
Create a project or select an existing repository, then describe what you want to build.
For example:
Add rate limiting to this API. Preserve existing endpoint behavior, make the limits configurable, and add tests for requests above and below the limit.
Want to understand or operate Genesis? Open Assistant (/help) — Genesis Assistant understands the running system and can act on it: it reads Genesis source and inspects runtime state without approval, drives tasks and scheduler/configuration changes only after you approve the exact action, and answers in your language. See the Genesis Assistant guide for capabilities and safety boundaries.
Headless server
Run the dashboard and agent runtime on Linux (x86_64 or ARM64) or macOS (Apple Silicon):
curl -LsSf https://genesis.evox.group/dl/install.sh | sh
genesis start
genesis status
Open http://127.0.0.1:9999 and configure your model provider in Settings. The server listens on localhost by default and has no built-in authentication; use an SSH tunnel for remote access.
Keep the desktop dashboard on your laptop and run agents on a server through an encrypted SSH tunnel. Tasks continue when the connection drops, and you can manage multiple remote targets from one dashboard.
Git records software versions; SQLite stores runtime and task data. Candidate changes run in isolated worktrees, with platform-specific execution controls described in the sandbox documentation.
Run from source
Use Elixir 1.20.4 and Erlang/OTP 29 to match the repository's CI environment, with Git installed.
The benchmark creates and removes its own throwaway repository without starting the Genesis runtime. Results cover worktree creation, reads and writes, Git operations, and worktree reclamation.
Research, community, and contributions
Genesis is developed by the EvoX Group at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. For research and collaboration, get in touch. For bugs and feature requests, open an issue.
Contributions are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for development guidelines and the contributor license agreement, which the CLA assistant handles on your first pull request.
Genesis grew out of EvoGit and follows the broader EvoX research lineage.
EvoX Genesis is an autonomous system for long-horizon software evolution that recursively builds, continues, and transforms complex software from high-level objectives.
