AI Office
Hire Claude & GPT staff. Run them like one office.
A free, open-source desktop app: hand out work in plain words, approve the important parts, and get a report when it's done.No command line. No hard setup.
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⬇️ Download
Free. You only need to be signed in to Claude or GPT (ChatGPT) on your computer — no separate account or API key.
First-launch warnings, requirements and Windows/phone details are in Before you install.
✨ What you can do
| What | Description |
|---|
| 👥 | Claude and GPT staff together | Pick Claude or GPT for each employee. Either one alone is enough to start (GPT staff are beta). |
| 💬 | Hire, then just tell them | Choose a role and a look, then @mention staff in the group chat. The right person picks up unassigned work. |
| ✅ | Approve what matters | File changes and commands wait in your approval inbox first. One click to undo what staff changed. |
| 🧑💼 | Team leads split big jobs | Give a big task to a team lead: it plans, splits, asks you to confirm, then reports. Track it on the task board. |
| 🏢 | A map that grows | See who is working or waiting at a glance. The office grows with your level and you can decorate it. |
| 📱 | Your phone, too | Connect the Android app to use the dashboard, approvals and group chat away from your desk. |
🚀 Quick start
- Install & sign in — Download for your computer above and open it. Make sure Claude or GPT (ChatGPT) is signed in on that computer.
- Hire your first employee — Pick a role and which AI (Claude or GPT) they use. They sit down and get ready.
- Give a task, then approve — Ask in the group chat, approve in the inbox, and read the report when it's done.
🔗 Links
Website · Report a problem / feedback · All releases
About this project
A free, open-source desktop app (Electron) where you hire Claude staff and GPT staff together and run them like one office: hand out work, approve, and get reports. Staff are Claude Code or Codex (GPT) sessions. (Formerly named Claude Office — existing data is copied automatically on first launch; the old folder is left untouched.)
- Status: 0.16.2 (2026-10-30) — GPT staff (beta) · Office map (team zones, meeting rooms, lounge) · Team / team-lead delegation · Task board · Approval inbox · Group chat · Meetings · Scheduled tasks · Reports · Payslips · Decorating
- Stack: Electron Forge + Vite · React 19 · Zustand · Tailwind 4 + shadcn/ui · Phaser 4 · SQLite (
node:sqlite) · Claude Agent SDK · Codex app-server (GPT staff)
Before you install
- Download the
.dmg from the button above, open it and drag the app into Applications (if you build it yourself, it is app/out/make/dmg/arm64/AI-Office.dmg)
- Apple Silicon only · Not signed or notarized → if you see an "unidentified developer" warning the first time you open it, go to System Settings › Privacy & Security › "Open Anyway"
- Requirement: at least one of Claude (Claude Code) or GPT (ChatGPT · Codex) must be signed in on that Mac. With both connected you choose per employee (staff work under that account, and usage is billed to it)
- Rebuild:
cd app && pnpm make
Windows (first release · beta)
- Install: download and run
AI-Office-win-x64-Setup.exe. It installs into your user folder and adds Start menu and desktop shortcuts (no admin rights needed). Later updates run from inside the app using a new Setup.exe
- Build:
cd app && pnpm install && pnpm make:win → app/out/make/squirrel.windows/x64/AI-Office-win-x64-Setup.exe (a Mac has no wine, so it cannot build the installer; build it with the GitHub Actions win-installer workflow)
- You can build it on a Mac too.
supportedArchitectures in pnpm-workspace.yaml also fetches the claude executable package for Windows x64 (after changing the setting, run pnpm install once)
- Not signed → if the SmartScreen "Windows protected your PC" window appears when you first open Setup.exe, click "More info › Run anyway"
- If you used the old zip: install with Setup.exe, then delete the old folder (your settings and history carry over)
- Data:
%APPDATA%\AI Office\office.db
- Still Mac-only: external staff notifications and question handling (hooks), and screen capture. Reviewing task results (commit · PR) requires Git for Windows and GitHub CLI, and has not been verified in practice yet
Phone remote (0.8.0 and later)
- Turn it on under Settings › Phone connection, then connect the Android app (
android/) by scanning the QR code. Off by default. When on, this PC's port (default 47900) is opened toward the internet, so turn it off when not in use.
- Approvals and instructions from the phone carry the same power as doing them on the PC. If you lose the phone, use "Regenerate QR".
- Notifications are checked about every 15 minutes, so they can be delayed by tens of minutes. If the PC's remote key changes (certificate pinning), regenerate the QR code and reconnect.
- Compatibility: Desktop 0.8.0+ ↔ Android 1.0.x ↔ protocol v1 (
docs/specs/remote-protocol-v1.md). Desktop 0.9.0+ ↔ Android 1.1.x ↔ protocol v2 (entire PC screen, docs/specs/remote-protocol-v2.md) — 1.0.x apps keep connecting to 0.9.0 PCs over v1. From 0.10.1, the phone app version matches the PC (PC 0.10.1 ↔ phone 0.10.1; the 1.x notation above is earlier history). For the app build and signing fingerprint see android/README.md; release notes for 0.8.0 are in docs/release-notes/0.8.0.md.
Development
cd app
pnpm install
pnpm start
- Sign-in: no separate API key is needed; it uses the Claude Code and Codex sign-ins on this Mac as is. Connection status per provider is shown in Settings.
- Data:
~/Library/Application Support/AI Office/office.db
- One data folder can be used by only one app at a time (
office.lock). If the installed app is running, the dev app shows "already running" and quits. To run the dev app or QA while the installed app is open, give it a different folder: CLAUDE_OFFICE_USER_DATA=~/claude-office-dev pnpm start
Two kinds of staff
| Hired staff | External staff |
|---|
| Identity | A session the app starts (Claude: Agent SDK · GPT: Codex app-server) | A Claude Code or Codex session already running in a terminal or desktop app |
| Status | Real-time (stream) | Claude: polls the ~/.claude/sessions registry every 2 seconds (+ opt-in hooks) · Codex: view-only from ~/.codex/sessions log files |
| Instructions & approvals | In the app | In the original window |
| Today's work | App DB | Transcript jsonl |
Folders
app/ — the app (src/main main process, src/renderer screens, src/shared shared types)spikes/ — Stage 1 integration verification scriptsdocs/ — research and spike records
Documents
