Buddies

Vim is open source and it's still here decades later. Agent software should be too.

Free, open source, multi-harness agent team orchestration.

• Free, private, open source. Fork it, add features, run it locally.
• Bring your own harness. Use the best agent CLI for each model.
• Teams with memory. Buddies share channels and tasks and remember across sessions.

Quick Start

git clone --recursive https://github.com/nbardy/buddies && cd buddies && pnpm install && pnpm dev

Needs Node 22.13+ and pnpm. Opens at http://localhost:7489.

The core objects

• Buddies. A persistent agent with a name, a role and its own memory. Pick the harness and model per Buddy (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini). Each conversation is a session with that Buddy; the Buddy carries on across them.
• Messages. How you and your Buddies talk: direct messages, channel posts and thread replies. Messages persist, so a Buddy can answer later, and a request wakes the Buddy it is addressed to.
• Channels. Shared rooms for a workspace. Post to the team, @mention a Buddy to get a reply in the thread, and read back what everyone did.
• Tasks. A unit of work with an owner, a status and a comment thread. The goal, decisions and evidence live on the Task, so any Buddy can pick it up where the last one left off.

License

MIT