# aurae-runtime/aurae

Distributed systems runtime daemon written in Rust.

Repository: https://github.com/aurae-runtime/aurae
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/aurae
Homepage: https://aurae.io
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: rust, daemon, distributed-systems, linux, multitenancy, system-programming
Last push: 2026-08-24T13:14:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1461, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1908, forks 96 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:52.848265+00:00)

## What it is
Aurae is a memory-safe distributed systems runtime daemon written in Rust that acts as a process manager and PID-1 initialization system for scheduling processes, containers, and virtual machines on Linux nodes. It exposes a gRPC-based API with multi-tenant workload isolation ('cells') and includes AuraeScript, a TypeScript-based scripting client built on Deno.

## Use cases
- run a memory-safe PID-1 init daemon on Linux nodes
- schedule processes and containers with CPU and resource quotas
- isolate multi-tenant workloads down to the socket layer
- complement Kubernetes with node-level workload controls
- script workload allocation and execution via TypeScript
- manage nested processes and node configuration remotely

## When to choose
- you need fine-grained, memory-safe workload isolation on individual Linux nodes
- you want a Rust-based alternative to traditional init and container runtimes
- you are building higher-order schedulers or control planes on top of node-level primitives
- you prefer scripting infrastructure with a typed, generated SDK

## When to avoid
- you need a production-ready, stable system today - the project is explicitly in early development
- you need a full Kubernetes replacement rather than a node-level runtime
- you require broad platform support beyond Linux
- you cannot tolerate breaking API changes without notice

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: experimental
- function: container-runtime, rpc, security, concurrency, developer-tools
- domain: microservices, infrastructure-as-code, self-hosted, operating-systems
- platform: rust, cli, self-hosted
- tags: runtime-daemon, pid-1, workload-isolation, multitenancy, cells, auraescript, system-programming, grpc, containers, linux

## Member repositories
- aurae-runtime/aurae (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:52.848265+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:11:12.121451+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/aurae-runtime/aurae (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:52.848265+00:00, sha 7d7682b86ef7)
  - homepage: https://aurae.io (fetched 2026-08-29T10:50:16.076916+00:00, sha 3233f3407708)
  - site_page: https://aurae.io/quickstart (fetched 2026-08-29T10:50:16.081239+00:00, sha 3e2eeb9e4857)
  - site_page: https://aurae.io/auraescript (fetched 2026-08-29T10:50:16.079557+00:00, sha 9ed7224f7f6e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.