Agentic Team

An open-source multi-agent development framework. In plain words: an AI team that helps you build your app.

Have an idea for an app? Build it, with an AI team to help.

You tell your idea to Ella, an AI you chat with, a bit like ChatGPT. She asks you some questions, writes a short plan and tells you what it will cost. When you say yes, her team of AI helpers builds it. We call these helpers agents. Each agent has one job. One agent builds, and a different one checks the work, like a teacher marking homework. Ella comes back to you only when you need to decide something.

• It's free. Agentic Team is a set of written instructions anyone can read. This project makes no money, and nobody sells you anything here.
• It runs on your computer. Your app's files stay on your computer and in your own accounts.
• It teaches as it goes. This is a learning project. Ella explains each step, so you learn how good software is planned, built and checked. The aim is to help new builders do it safely and properly, instead of throwing away code an AI wrote in a hurry.

Can't a chatbot or coding assistant do this?

A chatbot can write code, but you copy, set up and fix it yourself. A coding assistant does more, but nobody else checks its work. Here is what Ella's team adds.

	One AI on its own	Ella and her team
Plans with you first	Only if you ask.	Yes. You agree on a plan before any work starts.
Checks the work	It checks itself, or you do.	A different AI does, using tests from your plan.
Lets you try it first	No.	Yes. You try each new version and say yes or no before it goes live.
Tells you the cost first	No.	Yes, and it stops before going over your budget.
Remembers next week	Only what's in the chat.	Everything: plans, choices and test results, saved in your own account.
Helps you learn	Only if you ask.	Yes. Ella explains each step in plain words.

What you'll need

• A coding assistant. This is an AI like ChatGPT that can also work with the files on your computer. Claude Code is the one we've tested most. Codex and Cursor work too. Most need a paid plan from the AI company, so check the price first.
• A free GitHub account. GitHub is a website that keeps a safe copy of your app's files, a bit like Google Drive for code.
• About 15 minutes for setup. You paste one line into your coding assistant, and it does the rest. In the Claude app's Code tab you never need the terminal, the plain window where people type commands.

Where your money goes

This project makes no money. There are no ads, no sign-up and nothing to buy from us.

• The AI tool. Usually a monthly plan from the AI company. This is where most of your money goes, because it pays for the AI doing the work. Check the price on the company's own website. Before a big job, Ella tells you roughly how much of your AI plan it will use.
• Putting your app online. Often free to start. Many companies have a free plan that's enough for a small app. Ella picks free options first, and asks you before anything costs money.
• Your own web address. Optional. A name like myapp.com costs a small fee each year.
• GitHub and this team. Free.

Why spend on planning and checking at all? Because an app that's planned, tested and saved properly is one you can keep improving for years. A rushed one often has to be thrown away and started again.

Before you start, know this

• It's slower than asking one AI, because several agents plan and check the work. That uses more of your AI plan, so it may cost more.
• Website builders like Lovable, Bolt or Replit make a first version faster. If you need something to show tonight, use one.
• Tests can still miss mistakes. The work is only as good as the AI in your coding assistant.
• It works best in Claude Code today. Codex and Cursor read the same instructions. Nobody has tried Gemini CLI yet.
• Developers can use it too, to have one AI's work checked by another.

How a project goes

flowchart LR
  A["Idea<br/>you chat with Ella"] --> B["Plan<br/>a one-page plan"]
  B --> C["Build<br/>agents write the code"]
  C --> D["Check<br/>another agent tests it"]
  D --> E["Launch<br/>your app goes online"]
  E --> F["Keep it running<br/>fixes and updates"]
  B -. "you OK the plan and cost" .-> Y((You))
  D -. "you try it out" .-> Y
  E -. "you say go" .-> Y

Ella needs you at a few points: to OK the plan and cost, to try each new version, before any new spending, and before launch. The team does the rest. Ask Ella "tell me more" about anything. If you don't, she keeps things short.

Your first project

Here's the whole setup. The "Your first project" lesson on our website shows the same steps with more help.

1. Get two things ready.

• A coding assistant: an AI like ChatGPT that can also work with the files on your computer. The Claude app is the one we've tested most; install it and sign in. See which others work.
• A safe place for your app's keys. A key is a long password that lets your app use another service. Use any password manager you like (your phone or computer may have one built in), or a private file kept outside your project folder. Never paste a key into a chat.

That's all you do by hand. Ella installs Git and GitHub's tool for you during setup, after asking. No GitHub account yet? She opens the sign-up page and walks you through it; you type the details, because GitHub checks you're a person. Mac and Linux are tested. Windows should work, but nobody has tested it all the way yet.

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