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Why it mattersA team juggling three coding agents in three terminals loses the thread. One desktop with one queue per agent is a working pattern a non-engineer can follow.
Running a coding agent means opening a terminal. Running three means losing the thread. OpenBot, from a group called Nightly Labs, puts seven of them in one desktop window. Each agent has its own workspace. Each agent has its own message queue. Each agent has its own slot in a shared file area. The repository ranked 25 on Trendshift's daily list in the latest sweep. The GitHub page shows 1,599 stars on the project. OpenBot was created in August 2026.
The seven agents named in the README are Codex, Claude Code, Grok CLI, OpenCode, Gemini, Cursor CLI and Cline CLI. OpenBot speaks to each one through its own command-line program. OpenBot downloads and pins those programs itself. A user does not install seven CLIs by hand. Three more things sit in the same window. One is an embedded browser the agents can open and control. One is agent-to-agent messaging. One is a shared channel chat with explicit delegation. The chat has Stop, Resume, Reassign, Archive and Restore controls.
What it is, and what it is not
OpenBot calls itself local-first. The README defines this in plain words. Your workspaces, your file transfers and your account live on the computer you installed it on. It is not offline-only. Each agent still talks to its own provider. Codex talks to OpenAI. Claude talks to Anthropic. Grok talks to xAI. Gemini talks to Google. A visited page uses the network. Installed plugins can reach their own services. There is an optional OpenBot account that signs you in by email code. The account API runs on Cloudflare Workers and D1.
The project runs on three operating systems. One is macOS 13 or newer on Apple silicon or Intel. One is Windows 10 or newer on x64. One is Linux as an AppImage. A Docker image is available for a headless server. The release includes a computer-use driver on all three.
The warning the README leads with
OpenBot calls itself a development preview. The README warns that its agents run with full access. The agents never ask after the first-launch consent. They can read and modify files. They can run commands. They can use the network. They can control the embedded browser. The README says to run only agents and tasks you trust. The README says to review the Security section before use. Windows releases are signed by Synthetify Labs Spółka Z Ograniczoną Odpowiedzialnością. Older releases are not code-signed.
The licence to read before adopting
OpenBot comes under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0. The README repeats the point under a heading that says OpenBot is not free software. A team planning to use it for paid work should read the licence first. The code is on GitHub. The issues are public. The release page carries build attestations. A commercial team is adopting a source-available product. It is not an Apache or MIT one.
Source
- Repository, release notes and licence: nightly-labs/openbot on GitHub.
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