Quickstart

Build your first workflow with Thanks, Computer in minutes.

Thanks, Computer is an event-driven runtime for durable, human-in-the-loop workflows. As requests, emails, approvals, and conversations move through it, context stays attached — and an operation can pause for a human (or a slow AI), then resume exactly once.

Let’s see one running.

1. Install

brew tap loremlabs/txco && brew install txco

or

curl -fsSL https://get.thanks.computer/install.sh | bash

2. See it run

txco demo

This boots a self-contained local chassis — the TxCo runtime, one binary — and opens a guided demo in your browser, with short tracks for web, mail, async (human-in-the-loop), and MCP.

3. How stacks work

A workflow is composed of stacks. Each stack contributes a small piece of behavior, context, or decision-making.

As your work moves through, context travels with it. Most operations ignore most events. Only the operations whose conditions match will react, contribute information, and influence what happens next.

When an opportunity enters, mission, OKRs, and history contribute context. Other operations score, review, assign, and follow up. Together they help the system make decisions that remain aligned with its goals.

Three ideas make this possible:

• Read JSON. Write JSON. An operation is anything that accepts JSON and returns JSON. Any HTTP service in any language can participate.
• Shared context, not shared state. Operations coordinate by contributing to the same event document rather than calling each other directly.
• Only relevant operations react. Each operation is gated by a condition. Most operations ignore most events.

A complete operation is a few lines:

WHEN @web.req.url.path == "/opportunity"
EXEC "https://api.example.com/enrich-opportunity"