00 · the name
Where the name comes from.
What you say when a teammate drops the ball: don't mind, next play. Donmai treats failure as the default condition; every step is retryable, auditable, recoverable by design.
どんまい
donmai · pronounced dohn-MY · "don't mind"
どんまい is a Japanese baseball phrase, called out when a fielder drops a ball. It carries no judgment; it is an acknowledgment that errors happen and the game goes on.
An agent runtime deserves a name that says the same thing. Tasks will fail. Networks go down. APIs rate-limit. When a step fails, Donmai records what happened, applies your retry policy, and moves forward.
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01 · founder note
A note from the founder.
Donmai started as the execution layer inside Rensei. We open-sourced the primitives, a persistent daemon, a dispatch loop that owns the retry, and plugin-native MCP tools, because they should be available to every builder. The same runtime powers Rensei in production. MIT licensed.
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02 · meet don
Meet Don.
Don, the kitsune, is the Donmai mascot. Don has one tail at v0; more follow as the project matures. He lives on this site and in the dashboard; an in-terminal cameo is planned. Otherwise, he stays out of the way.
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03 · contributing
Contributing.
The door is open: CONTRIBUTING.md covers the development setup and the architecture docs to read before changing execution-layer behavior. Donmai follows the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct; all participants in the project and community spaces are expected to uphold it.
Issues, pull requests, and discussions live on GitHub.
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04 · license
MIT. Use it, fork it, ship it.
Donmai is released under the MIT License.
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