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Omnara is an open-source stand-in for Claude Managed Agents
Omnara is an Apache-2.0 project that runs coding agents, with their state, their tools, their machines and their secrets, on your own servers instead of inside Anthropic's. The repository is at 2,978 stars and was pushed to again today.
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Why it mattersA team already paying Anthropic for Claude Managed Agents, or holding off on it because of the dependency, has a free, self-hostable replacement that keeps the model and the data under its own account.
Omnara is an open-source agent-management platform that describes itself as a self-hostable alternative to Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents and OpenAI's Agents API. The repository at omnara-ai/omnara had 2,978 stars and 237 forks when checked, and the last push was today. The licence is Apache 2.0.
What it replaces
A managed-agent service holds the state of a long-running coding or tool-using agent. It keeps the agent's memory, its tools, its credentials and its logs across many sessions, and it reaches external services on the agent's behalf. Anthropic ships this as Claude Managed Agents, OpenAI ships it as the Agents API. In both cases the state and the machine running the agent sit inside the vendor's account.
Omnara does the same job on servers you run. The agent, its state, its tools and its secrets stay in your own deployment. The README states that it supports any compatible model, and names OpenAI, Anthropic and OpenRouter as examples. It carries role-based access control, built-in and custom tools, an MCP server, and plug-in connectors for Slack, Discord and GitHub. State survives crashes and restarts.
How it ships
Two deployment paths. Docker Compose on your own machine, or Omnara Cloud with your own keys and your own sandboxes. The hosted path is free when you supply the model keys and the machines, and pay-as-you-go when you ask Omnara for the models and sandboxes.
The repository was created on 9 July 2025, so it is over fifteen months old. The 2,978 figure is a lifetime total across those fifteen months. The pushed_at value on the GitHub API read today shows the maintainers are still committing, which is the figure that matters more.
The task made easier, for a working team, is this. A product that today runs a managed-agent service hosted by Anthropic or OpenAI can be moved to a service hosted by the same company that owns the product. The code, the model keys, the sandboxes and the audit trail all stay inside one account.
Two questions a team should ask before replacing a vendor service with an open-source project. Who signs off on new releases, and how fast do security problems get a fix. Omnara's traffic has grown fast enough that both answers matter: a small maintainer team pushing nightly is a different risk profile from an enterprise vendor with a security team. The code is Apache 2.0, so a team that cares can fork it and freeze on a reviewed version.
For a company already paying a managed-agent bill, the first adoption step is cheap: install the Docker Compose stack, point it at the same model keys, run one agent through it and read the audit log. The second step, moving all agents off the hosted service, is harder because of integrations rather than the core platform.
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