Spice adds open-source decision layer above agents
Spice is an early open-source runtime for making agent decisions explicit before any tool execution happens. Instead of replacing agents like Claude Code or Codex, it sits above them and tries to answer the harder question first: what should happen next, why that choice won, and what evidence or trade-offs led there. The project already supports terminal use, LLM provider configuration, Decision Cards, and approval-gated handoff to external executors, with the broader goal of turning agent behavior from a black box into an auditable decision process.
Strong idea, and probably the right abstraction if they can keep the boundary between decision and execution clean.
- –It targets a real gap: execution agents are improving fast, but the decision layer is still usually implicit or delegated to the user.
- –The structure is compelling: perception -> state model -> simulation -> decision -> execution -> reflection is a legible loop.
- –Decision Cards and source-backed rationale make the system feel more inspectable than a normal agent wrapper.
- –The “approval-aware handoff” angle matters more than another agent framework because it acknowledges trust and governance.
- –The risk is scope creep: if Spice becomes “another agent runtime,” it loses the point of being a separate decision layer.
- –It is still early, so the strongest signal is architectural clarity, not maturity or ecosystem depth.
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2026-05-26
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2026-05-25
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