Joe Documentation

Joe (Joe Operates Everything) is a self-hosted, open-source AI agent for your infrastructure. A single binary runs a daemon that maps your infrastructure into a graph, answers questions about it through an agentic loop, and — only when you deliberately allow it — acts on it.

Start with the Overview for what Joe is and the one property everything else rests on, then read Concepts to understand why it works the way it does.

Sections

• Overview — what Joe is and the governed-safety invariant.
• Quickstart — get a Joe daemon running.
• Concepts — explanation: why Joe is governed, how its parts fit.
• Install and Build — download a released joe binary, or build it from source.
• Configuration — the YAML config and environment surface.
• Components — the systems Joe connects to.
• Guides — task-focused how-to.
• Operations — running, observing, and recovering Joe.
• API Reference — the HTTP surface.