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

# Welcome to Matrices

Matrices is an API for managing fleets of long-lived cloud agents.

Matrices built on the following ideas:

* agents can provide a lot of value, particularly for business
* to provide that value, agents need freedom to operate
* blindly giving that freedom that is scary and dangerous
* you want centralized controls for cost, data access, and actions the agents can take

Accomplishing these goals is harder than it should be. Building agents for business today feels a bit like if you wanted to build a product, but Postgres and MySQL hadn't been invented yet (let alone RDS/Planetscale/Supabase).

That's where Matrices comes in. We give you...

* "n" agents who each manage their own memory and execution
* ability to swap models in and out
* cost controls, permissions, and identity from day 1
* streaming responses

The goal is to make it easy to build the best agents that fit *your company* and tools, while giving you confidence they won't go off the rails.

To get started, point your coding agent at these docs and ask it to build one of the [quick start guides](/guides/first-agent).


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