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* fix(daemon): stop chat tasks holding the local_directory path mutex (MUL-6504) A chat turn bound to an in_place local_directory queued on that path's mutex, so every message to a squad leader sat behind whatever coding task was building in the same repo — measured at 23-67 minutes on a self-hosted install, with cancelling the chat by hand as the only way out (#7344). The carve-out that was supposed to cover this keyed on IsLeaderTask, and its own comment describes a chat turn exactly ("may create child issues or comments, but should not hold the path mutex"). It never fired: the server does not write is_leader_task on the chat-task insert path, so it is false on every chat turn ever dispatched. The reported one-line fix — returning no assignment for chat — would have freed the lock by also moving chat out of the user's directory: that same return value drives the agent's working directory and the GC-meta stamp. A "look at my repo" chat would have stopped seeing the repo. So split the two decisions instead. localDirectoryAssignmentForTask keeps answering where a task runs; the new localDirectoryLockExempt answers whether it queues for it. Chat resolves, validates and binds exactly as before, and skips only the mutex. What the mutex protects is unchanged: two coding runs interleaving edits into one tree. It was never a general write barrier — the user's own editor and any external script write to that tree unsynchronised — so a conversation whose occasional write is the same risk class as Cmd+S does not need a slot in it. An exempt turn is told its directory is shared, via a per-turn block that stays after the cached prompt prefix. Tests: chat skips the mutex while a coding task holds it AND still resolves an assignment; worktree chat keeps its assignment; two issue tasks still serialise; the leader carve-out is unchanged. Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]> * feat(chat): explain a waiting_local_directory hold in the status pill (MUL-6504) wait_reason was written end-to-end except for the last hop: the daemon stamped the path and holder, the column stored it, the realtime payload carried it, and the UI read only the status — as the type comment said outright. A parked chat showed "Waiting for local directory" with a timer and no way to tell a one-minute wait from a forty-minute one, or whether cancelling was safe. That ambiguity is what pushed the reporter into cancel-by-id and cost them 36 minutes of a worker's progress. Surface it. The daemon now names the directory by its resource label or basename instead of its absolute path: this text reaches every client on the session and lands in screenshots, which is the same contract handler.relativeWorkDir already enforces for the sibling work_dir chip. The absolute path stays in the daemon's logs, where an operator debugging a wedged lock looks for it. wait_reason is written once on the way into the hold and never cleared, so both the server DTO and the client cache gate it on the status still being waiting_local_directory — otherwise a task running fine for ten minutes keeps claiming to be held by another one. Servers predating the field send nothing and render today's bare label. Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]> * fix(server): strip legacy absolute-path wait reasons before clients render them Surfacing wait_reason created a leak that did not exist while the field was being ignored. Daemons before the display-name change send `local_directory /Users/<name>/repo (held by task abc12345)`, and a new server paired with one of those would now put a home path — and the account name in it — into the StatusPill and any screenshot of it. Sanitize at the write boundary rather than at each reader. It is the only place wait_reason is written, so both the REST payload and the websocket event read through it, and the column itself never stores a path. While here, put wait_reason on the task:waiting_local_directory event. The payload never carried it, so the field the client type has always declared was undefined in practice and the reason only arrived on the follow-up refetch — the pill spent that round-trip saying nothing useful, which is the gap the hint exists to close. Already sanitized, so the socket cannot carry what the REST payload would withhold. Dropping the whole string rather than editing it: an absent reason is a case clients already handle — older servers never sent one — and it renders as the plain waiting label, which is the pre-change behaviour. Also notes the known mixed-script rough edge in the holder clause: it is English inside a localized "Waiting for {reason}" label. Fixing it means structured fields and a client-side join, which is not worth it for one parenthetical. Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]> --------- Co-authored-by: Bohan-J <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]>
Multica
Agents that show up on the board.
Multica is an open-source workspace where you assign work to AI coding agents the way you'd assign it to a teammate — they pick up the issue, report progress, raise blockers, and hand it back for review. Self-hostable, works with 23 agent CLIs, no lock-in.
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Your next 10 hires won't be human.
What is Multica?
You already run Claude Code, Codex, and three other agents. Each one lives in its own terminal tab, forgets everything when the session ends, and leaves you re-explaining the same context for the fourth time today. The more agents you add, the more of your day goes to babysitting them.
Multica puts those agents and your teammates in one workspace. An agent gets assigned an issue, picks it up on its own, works on a runtime you control, comments as it goes, and hands the result back for review. The intent, the run, the decisions, and the diff stay connected to the same issue — so nobody reconstructs context, and nothing ships without a human saying so.
Build the team.
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Kimi — you don't pick one. You hire them all.
- 23 agent CLIs → Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Kimi, OpenCode, and more.
- Agents as teammates → Give each one a name, a provider, and a runtime — they show up on the board like anyone else.
- Squads → Put agents and people on one team; the leader routes the work.
- Skills → Turn a solved problem into a playbook every agent reuses.
- Your own runtime → Their desk is your machine — a daemon on your laptop or cloud box. Code never leaves it.
Hand off the work.
It starts as three rough sentences in an issue. It ends as a pull request.
- Assign an issue → Pick an agent as assignee the way you'd pick a colleague — it takes the work from there.
- Autopilots → Run standups, audits, and reports on a cron — nobody to remind.
- Chat → Ask your workspace a question, or start work without filing anything.
- Projects → Group work and attach the repos and docs agents need as context.
Stay in the loop.
Which agent touched this? What did it run? What did it cost? Open the run.
- Execution log → Replay every tool call, command, and error, timestamped.
- Token usage → See what each run cost, per agent and per issue.
- Review gates → Work lands in review, not in main. You decide what ships.
- Inbox → Get pinged when an agent needs a call, not for every step.
- Retries and timeouts → Failed runs retry on their own, or stop and tell you why.
Make it yours.
Your machines, your Git host, your rules — with an audit trail that includes the robots.
- Self-host everything → Docker Compose or Helm, on your own infrastructure.
- Any Git host → GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, or Forgejo — self-hosted included.
- Workspaces → Separate agents, issues, and settings per team.
- Roles and access scopes →
owner,admin, andmember— and exactly which agents each member can run. - Security model → What an agent can reach, and what it can't.
- Slack, Lark, DingTalk, WeCom, and Telegram → Trigger and follow agent work where your team already talks. DingTalk, WeCom, and Telegram are community-maintained.
- Web, desktop, and mobile → The same workspace on macOS, Windows, Linux, and iPhone — iOS builds from source today, not yet on the App Store.
- CLI and API → Every surface is scriptable. Agents drive Multica through the same CLI you do.
Get started
No terminal required: sign up at multica.ai, or download Multica Desktop for macOS, Windows, and Linux — it connects the computer it runs on as a runtime automatically.
The one prerequisite: the machine that will run agents needs at least one supported agent CLI installed and signed in — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and friends. Multica drives them; it doesn't ship them.
Self-hosting the whole thing
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/multica-ai/multica/main/scripts/install.sh | bash -s -- --with-server
multica setup self-host
On Windows, set $env:MULTICA_MODE="with-server", then run the PowerShell installer:
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/multica-ai/multica/main/scripts/install.ps1 | iex.
This pulls the official images from GHCR and requires Docker. See the
Self-Hosting Guide; if the selected GHCR tag has not been published yet,
fall back to make selfhost-build from a checkout.
Your first agent in five minutes
1. Sign in. multica.ai in the browser, or open Multica Desktop.
2. Connect a computer. A runtime is any machine agents can work on — your laptop, or a cloud box. Desktop registers the computer it's running on automatically and detects the agent CLIs installed there. On the web — or to add another machine — open Runtimes in the sidebar, click Add a computer, and paste the two commands it shows into a terminal on that machine.
3. Create an agent. Open Agents in the sidebar and click New agent. Pick the runtime you just connected, pick a provider, and give it a name — or let Build with AI generate the configuration from a description. That name is how it shows up on the board and in comments.
4. Assign it something. File an issue and set the agent as assignee. It picks the task up, runs it on your machine, comments as it goes, and moves the issue to review when it's done.
Full walkthrough: Quickstart · Tutorial
Runtimes
Multica does not ship a model. It drives the agent CLIs you already have installed and authenticated, so switching providers is a dropdown, not a migration.
| Provider | CLI | Provider | CLI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | claude |
OpenAI Codex | codex |
| Cursor Agent | cursor-agent |
GitHub Copilot CLI | copilot |
| OpenCode | opencode |
OpenClaw | openclaw |
| Hermes | hermes |
Pi | pi |
| Antigravity | agy |
CodeBuddy | codebuddy |
| DevEco Code | deveco |
Grok | grok |
| Kimi | kimi |
Kiro CLI | kiro-cli |
| Qoder CLI | qodercli |
Qoder CN | qoderclicn |
| Qwen Code | qwen |
QwenPaw | qwenpaw |
| Reasonix | reasonix |
Trae CLI | traecli |
| DeepSeek Harness | dsh |
Oh-My-Pi | omp |
| MiniMax Code | mcode |
— | — |
| Dim | dim |
Installing and authenticating them: Install an agent runtime · Providers
Documentation
| I want to… | Start here |
|---|---|
| Get an agent doing something today | Quickstart · Tutorial |
| Understand how the pieces fit | Core concepts · How Multica works |
| Create and configure agents | Agents · Create an agent · Skills |
| Get work to an agent | Triggering agents · Assigning issues · Mentions |
| Connect my machines | Daemon and runtimes · Install an agent runtime |
| Connect Git and chat tools | GitHub · Self-hosted Git · Channels |
| Run it on my own infrastructure | Self-hosting · Security model · Environment variables |
| Script it | CLI reference · CLI and daemon guide · Auth tokens |
| Drive Multica from Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor | Multica CLI skill |
| Work out why an agent is stuck | Tasks · Troubleshooting |
Architecture
Web · Desktop (macOS/Windows/Linux) · iOS
│
▼
┌──────────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ ┌──────────────────┐
│ Next.js │──>│ Go backend │──>│ PostgreSQL │
│ frontend │<──│ (Chi + WS) │<──│ (pgvector) │
└──────────────┘ └──────┬───────┘ └──────────────────┘
│ tasks over WebSocket
┌──────┴───────┐
│ Agent daemon │ runs on your machine, next to your code
└──────┬───────┘
│ spawns
┌──────┴───────────────────────────────┐
│ Claude Code · Codex · Cursor · … │
│ (any of the 23 runtimes above) │
└──────────────────────────────────────┘
| Layer | Stack |
|---|---|
| Web | Next.js 16 (App Router) |
| Desktop | Electron, sharing the web UI packages |
| Mobile | Expo / React Native (iOS) |
| Backend | Go (Chi router, sqlc, gorilla/websocket) |
| Database | PostgreSQL 17 with pgvector |
| Agent runtime | Local daemon executing any of the 23 agent CLIs above |
Development
Contributors: start with the Contributing Guide.
Prerequisites: Node.js 22, pnpm 10.28.2, Go 1.26.6, Docker
make dev
make dev auto-detects your environment (main checkout or worktree), creates the env file,
installs dependencies, sets up the database, runs migrations, and starts every service.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full workflow, worktree support, testing, and
troubleshooting. The iOS client lives in apps/mobile/ — its
README covers building it onto your own iPhone.
We release most weekdays, so main moves quickly — pull often.
Why "Multica"?
Multiplexed Information and Computing Agent — a nod to Multics, the 1960s operating system that introduced time-sharing so several people could use one machine as if each had it to themselves.
Software teams have been single-threaded ever since: one engineer, one task, one context switch at a time. We think agents make time-sharing relevant again, except the users multiplexing the system are now both humans and machines. A small team shouldn't feel small.
The longer argument, and where we think this goes: VISION.md.
License
Multica License — the complete Apache License 2.0 text plus additional conditions covering hosted services, commercial embedding, and branding. Self-host it, modify it, build on it; the exact terms are in the LICENSE, attribution notices in NOTICE.