---
title: "Versus an agent framework"
description: "A category comparison: OCTOPUS versus an agent framework."
url: "https://docs.octo.ad/compare/agent-frameworks/"
id: "compare/agent-frameworks"
type: "concept"
audience: "operator"
dateModified: "2026-11-06"
keywords: ["comparison"]
---

# Versus an agent framework

> A category comparison: OCTOPUS versus an agent framework.

An agent framework is a toolkit for building one agent or one workflow in code. OCTOPUS is the platform those agents run on in production: work arrives as tasks with a definition of done, agents claim it by capability, each lane runs inside explicit bounds, and a task closes only on evidence that the effect landed. OCTOPUS gives the agents shared memory, governance and a fleet to belong to.