How Jane works

Jane splits the job in two. The app teaches your kid during the day. Your own AI agent plans the next lesson at night. The agent works from outside the app, so there is no AI inside Jane talking to your kid.

Agent-Orchestrated Software (AOS)

Kent Langley's name for this way of building and sharing software:

Agent-Orchestrated Software (AOS): software whose adaptation, content, and upkeep are orchestrated by the user's own AI agent, working from outside the app. The agent may host the app, but doesn't have to. The app can include AI of its own, but doesn't need to.

Jane is an example. Jane happens to have no AI inside. Your agent (Grok Bot, or any agent that can run small programs on a schedule) reads the day's progress and writes the next quest offline each night. It may also run Jane on its own computer, or Jane can live somewhere you choose while the agent just does the nightly work.

Daytime: learning no AI here

Your kid plays in a web browser on a phone, tablet or laptop.
The Jane app checks each answer, gives hints, picks the next question, schedules reviews and hands out medals. It follows rules written into its own code, so it's fast and predictable, and the same answers always lead to the same thing.
Progress is saved in storage that belongs to your setup: your Cloudflare account, or a folder on your own computer.

Nighttime: teaching about 1 AM

A scheduled routine on your agent's computer does six steps:

Back up your kid's progress.
Read the day: answers, struggles, strengths, what's ready to learn next and what's due for review.
Write the next quest following Jane's teaching rules, or freshen up the parts of today's quest your kid hasn't reached yet.
Check it. Jane's validator refuses a quest that breaks the rules: too long, testing something that wasn't taught, or changing a quest that's already finished.
Publish it, so it's waiting in the morning.
Double-check that your kid's progress wasn't changed.

Your agent only messages you when something matters: a problem, review falling behind, a struggle that keeps coming back, or a milestone.

Diagram: How Jane works, an example of Agent-Orchestrated Software. Daytime, learning: your kid plays in a browser; the Jane app (a web page plus Jane's own engine on the Marble skill map of 1,916 topics) checks answers, picks the next question and saves progress in a progress store that lives only in your deployment. No AI runs here. Nighttime, about 1 AM: your Grok Bot or any agent, which may host Jane or not, backs up the progress, reads an export of the day, writes the next quest, checks it with Jane's validator, publishes it, and checks that the progress record did not change. Jane can run on Cloudflare, on a Node server or in Docker, on the bot's computer or anywhere you choose. You see a read-only parent report. Another family can make their own copy from the bot template; kid data stays in each home. — How Jane works. Tap the picture to open it full size.

Run it where you like

It's the same app everywhere, on the agent's computer or anywhere you choose:

Cloudflare

A free Cloudflare account. Reachable from anywhere.

A home computer

Any computer with Node.js. Progress is a folder of files.

Docker

One command, restarts on its own, keeps data in a Docker volume.

You, the parent, open the parent report (/parent): a calm, read-only page with progress, quests, reviews and every answer.

Why build it this way?

Cheap

No AI charges per question. Jane runs on a free tier or any computer.

Private

Your kid's answers stay in your setup, and no AI sees them while they play.

Keeps working

Playing never calls an AI or outside service. If the agent skips a night, Jane falls back to its built-in questions and reviews.

Predictable for kids

Jane only shows what was written and checked ahead of time. No surprises, no off-topic chats.

Smarter agent, same app

When your agent gets better, the lessons get better, without changing the app.

How AOS compares

	AOS (like Jane)	Online service (SaaS)	Traditional installed software
Where it runs	Wherever you choose: your agent's computer, your own machine or a cloud account you own	The company's servers	Your own device
Who adapts and improves it	Your own AI agent, from outside the app (the code's authors still ship updates)	The company, the same for everyone	The company, through new versions
Where your data lives	In your own setup	On the company's servers	On your device
How you get it	Open code plus a recipe your agent follows (a bot template or a setup guide)	Sign up for an account	Installer, download or app store
What it costs	Your hosting (often free) plus the agent you already use	Subscription, per seat or ads	One-time purchase or license

The technical version of this page: docs/ARCHITECTURE.md and docs/NIGHTLY.md.