Paradigm and Tempo Jointly Open Source AI Agent Runtime Framework Centaur

According to monitoring from Beating Subsense (tracked via https://t.me/OneMillion_AI), Paradigm and Tempo have jointly open-sourced Centaur: a self-hosted, multi-user collaborative, secure AI Agent runtime framework. Since January 2026, it has been widely deployed internally at Paradigm, fundamentally overhauling key workflows including investments, engineering, design, recruitment, events, and customer service. Centaur acts as a shared “virtual employee” accessible via Slack threads or APIs, supporting long-running tasks (from hours to days), resilience to restarts, and integration with real tools without requiring users to handle original credentials. Users only need to add a tool or SKILL.md workflow once, making it immediately shareable across the organization; it also performs daily self-reflection and improvements. Centaur uses a microservices architecture (Slackbot + FastAPI + Postgres + sandbox containers + Iron Proxy firewall + observability), where each Slack thread maps to a dedicated sandbox container. Its core and extension components—Tools, Skills, Workflows—are cleanly separated, ensuring dual benefits: security (credentials are only injected at the firewall and never enter the Agent’s memory) and high availability (stateless services paired with persistent checkpoints). It works with a range of AI backends, offers robust built-in features like file processing, GitHub, and Google Docs integration, and enables enterprises to build custom proprietary capabilities via an overlay. The core code and template repository are now open-source, with future plans to further enhance user-facing capabilities.