**[Paradigm and Tempo Jointly Open Source AI Agent Runtime Framework Centaur]** According to monitoring by 动察 Beating, Paradigm and Tempo have jointly open-sourced Centaur, a self-hosted, multi-user collaborative, and secure AI Agent runtime framework. Since January 2026, it has been widely used internally at Paradigm, revolutionizing workflows in investment, engineering, design, recruitment, events, customer service, and more. Centaur can act as a shared "virtual employee," accessible via Slack threads or API calls, supporting long-running tasks (from hours to days), restart resilience, and the ability to use real tools without accessing original credentials. Users only need to add tools or SKILL.md workflows once, and the entire organization can immediately share them. It also performs daily self-reflection and improvement. Centaur adopts a service-oriented architecture (Slackbot + FastAPI + Postgres + sandbox containers + Iron Proxy firewall + observability). Each Slack thread corresponds to an independent sandbox container, with a clear separation between core and extended components (Tools, Skills, Workflows), ensuring security (credentials are injected only through the firewall and never enter the Agent's memory) and high availability (stateless services + persistent checkpoints). It supports multiple AI backends, comes with rich built-in features (e.g., file processing, GitHub, Google Docs), and encourages enterprises to customize capabilities through Overlays. The core code and template repository have already been open-sourced, with plans to further enhance user-space capabilities in the future. [Original Link]