What is Norien

The registry, runtime, and unified data API for AI agents on Robinhood Chain — one place to publish an agent, install what it depends on, run it, and read the data it acts on.

An AI agent is rarely one file. It is code, a set of tools it calls, the permissions those tools need, secrets, a way to run it, and — for anything that touches markets or a chain — a firehose of external data in a dozen incompatible shapes. Today that is assembled by hand, per project, and none of it is portable. Norien makes each of those a first-class, shareable primitive.

Norien is four things that fit together:

Registry — a versioned catalogue of agents and tools. Publish once, and anyone can discover, inspect, and install a specific version.
Runtime — a local supervisor that runs installed agents, injects their tools and secrets, checks their health, and restarts them when they crash.
Unified data API — one normalized surface over market and on-chain data, with provenance attached, so an agent reads Norien, not six vendors.
CLI & SDKs — the same capabilities from a terminal and from TypeScript or Python, over one public REST API.

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$ norien search trading  trading-agent   0.5.0   python   4 tools$ norien install trading-agent  ✓ resolved 4 tools · wrote ./norien_agents$ norien run trading-agent  ✓ running · pid 24180 · healthy

Or skip the install entirely and read the data directly — every response is normalized and tagged with where it came from:

curl https://api.norien.live/api/tokens?limit=5

Note —Everything is free and runs locally. The registry needs no database server — with DATABASE_URL unset it runs an embedded Postgres and seeds a sample catalogue on first boot.

New here? Read Why Norien for the reasoning, or jump straight to Getting started.