> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.obversa.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What Obversa is

> Build your own workflows around the tools you use and the agents you run.

Obversa is a process runtime for software teams.

You describe how work should move from a request to a checked result. Obversa
runs that workflow and records what happened. You keep your editor, terminal,
and agents.

## The model in five sentences

An **Order** is the change that you want.

A **workflow** takes the Order through nodes, the steps that do the work.

A **callback gate** asks for a structured answer before work continues.

**Evidence** records the checks and decisions you use to judge the result.

The **runtime** runs the graphs and stores their events and artifacts.

## Your tools stay yours

Your editor holds the code. Your terminal host supplies the panes, layout,
and keybindings. Obversa is a guest in those tools.

Engine plugins connect the runtime to agents and model services. You choose
the plugins and credentials for your workflow. A local review surface gives
you a place to inspect a diff and return comments.

The runtime runs on your computer with your repositories. An engine plugin
can call an external model service.

## You choose the process

A small fix and a large feature need different work. You define the steps,
dependencies, checks, and decisions that fit each one. The workflow bank
gives you runnable examples to copy and change.

Physical production can need batches to justify changing tools. Software
work can move one change at a time. You can follow an Order from request to
result, with feedback along the way.

## Read next

* **[Orders](/concepts/orders):** Define the change you want.
* **[Workflows](/concepts/workflows):** Describe how the work moves.
* **[Callback gates](/concepts/callback-gates):** Ask for a decision.
* **[Surfaces](/concepts/surfaces):** Give a person a place to answer.
* **[The runtime](/concepts/runtime):** Run the graph and keep its record.