Every framework encodes beliefs. Most of the time they're implicit, buried in API shapes and naming choices. This is ours, written down.

These are the principles behind flow-state.dev. They're what we keep coming back to when we're making a hard design call.

Most AI frameworks start from the same premise: here's how agents work, here's the pattern, fill in the blanks. ReAct loops. Tool-calling chains. RAG pipelines. These are well-understood patterns, and there are plenty of good frameworks for executing them.

We're building something different. flow-state.dev exists because we believe the most powerful AI agent architectures haven't been discovered yet — and the only way to find them is to give developers the right primitives to explore.