multica README

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Multica

Multica

Agents that show up on the board.

Multica is a source-available 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 the agent CLIs you already use, no lock-in.

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A Multica board where agents and their human teammates are moving work across columns

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.

Hand off the work.

It starts as three rough sentences in an issue. It ends as a pull request.

Stay in the loop.

Which agent touched this? What did it run? What did it cost? Open the run.

Make it yours.

Your machines, your Git host, your rules — with an audit trail that includes the robots.

Get started

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.

A self-hosted server sends one anonymous, deployment-level snapshot a day: the release version plus bucketed counts, with no names, content, or IDs. Set DO_NOT_TRACK=1 on the API server to turn it off — what's collected.

Your first agent in five minutes

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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 — 26 of them today — 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
Huawei Cloud CodeArts codearts ZeroClaw zeroclaw

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 Runs · Troubleshooting

The docs are also available in 简体中文, 日本語, 한국어, and Français.

Architecture

   Web (browser)        Desktop (Electron)        iPhone · iPad (Expo)
         │                      │                          │
         ▼                      │                          │
  ┌──────────────┐              │                          │
  │   Next.js    │              │                          │
  │ pages + API  │              │                          │
  │    proxy     │              │                          │
  └──────┬───────┘              │  HTTPS + WebSocket       │
         ▼                      ▼                          ▼
  ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐   ┌───────────────┐
  │                Go backend  (Chi + WebSocket)              │──>│ PostgreSQL 17 │
  └─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┘   └───────────────┘
                                │  runs over WebSocket
                        ┌───────┴────────┐
                        │  Agent daemon  │  runs on your machine, next to your code
                        └───────┬────────┘
                                │  spawns
              ┌─────────────────┴──────────────────┐
              │  Claude Code · Codex · Cursor · …  │
              └────────────────────────────────────┘
Layer Stack
Web Next.js 16 (App Router)
Desktop Electron, sharing the web UI packages
Mobile Expo / React Native (iPhone and iPad)
Backend Go (Chi router, sqlc, gorilla/websocket)
Database PostgreSQL 17 (pgcrypto + pg_trgm)
Agent runtime Local daemon executing any supported agent CLI

Development

Contributors: start with the Contributing Guide.

Prerequisites: Node.js 22, pnpm 10.28.2, Go 1.26.9, 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 device.

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.

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What is this?Multica is a self-hostable workspace where you assign issues to AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and others) the way you'd assign work to a teammate — they pick up the task, report progress, and hand it back for review.
Is this a library or a full app?It's a full application with web, desktop (Electron), and mobile (iOS) clients, backed by a Go backend and PostgreSQL database — not something you import into code.
How do I get it running?Sign up at multica.ai for cloud, download Multica Desktop for macOS/Windows/Linux, or self-host the whole stack with Docker Compose or Helm. For self-hosting on Windows, set $env:MULTICAMODE="with-server" and run the PowerShell installer that pulls images from GHCR.
Do I need a coding agent CLI already installed?Yes — the one prerequisite is that the machine running agents needs at least one supported agent CLI installed and signed in, such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor. Multica drives these CLIs; it doesn't ship or replace them.
Is the iOS app available on the App Store?Not yet — the iOS app currently only builds from source onto your own device, it isn't on the App Store.
Which platforms does it run on?The same workspace is available on macOS, Windows, Linux, and as a mobile app for iPhone and iPad, plus a web interface.
Does self-hosting send any data back home?A self-hosted server sends one anonymous, deployment-level snapshot a day (release version plus bucketed counts, no names/content/IDs), and this can be disabled by setting DONOTTRACK=1.
How many agent CLIs does Multica support?26 providers today, including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Kimi, OpenCode, Grok, and more — switching between them is just a dropdown choice, not a migration.
Can agents work unattended on a schedule?Yes, through Autopilots, which run standups, audits, and reports on a cron without anyone needing to trigger them manually.
Can I chat with a running agent mid-task?Yes — you can reply while an agent works and the message lands in the current run (supported for Claude Code, Codex, and Grok today), not queued for the next one.
Why is it called Multica?It stands for Multiplexed Information and Computing Agent, a nod to Multics, the 1960s time-sharing OS, reflecting the idea that both humans and agents now multiplex work on one system.
What are similar projects?vicoa, 1code, trueforge, evenfire, nocobase, shipyard, Termix, paperclip
Which topics is it in?kanban, helm, project-management, slack, react-native, workflow-automation, agent-orchestration, nextjs, electron, kubernetes, postgresql, docker-compose
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