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OpenBot: local-first desktop workspace where a team of AI agents works together

nightly-labs/openbot, a local-first desktop workspace for persistent AI teammates, is trending again on GitHub, up about 800 stars in a day to roughly 2,900, and finished #2 Product of the Day on Product Hunt in October. Each agent gets its own workspace, conversation, queue, and instructions, agents message each other, hand off tasks, and share files, and the app runs Codex, Claude Code, and Grok plus OpenCode, Gemini, Cursor, and Cline CLIs through ACP, reusing the subscriptions already on the machine.

trendingagents · orchestrationJEV traction 0.71nightly-labs/openbot · 2,919 ★added 2026-10-28

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Why it matters

One desktop office for a team of agents instead of one chat window per assistant: agents keep their roles and context when the provider changes, and workspaces stay on the user's own computer.

What you could build with it

A two-person indie studio could run a researcher agent, a coder agent, and a reviewer agent in one OpenBot workspace, letting the researcher hand findings to the coder and the reviewer check the result, all under the subscriptions the studio already pays for.

Does it hold up?

Usable with a clear warning: the app is real, cross-platform, and PH-validated, but its README calls it a development preview where agents run with danger-full-access, and the PolyForm Noncommercial licence means commercial use needs separate terms.

Built with OpenBot

Nightly Labs' OpenBot Runs Multiple Coding Agents From One Desktop Apparticle · AlphaSignal coverage: ACP-based CLI integration, provider switching that preserves workspace and conversation, and Ollama/LM Studio local models.
OpenBot: Grok Bot alternative: free, local, open-source, multiplayerproducthunt · Product Hunt launch page: #2 Product of the Day with 350 upvotes, and the makers' note that launch feedback is already shaping the next build.
Introducing OpenBot: A Shared Workspace for AI Agentsarticle · Maker intro from September: the single-player to multiplayer framing, per-agent roles and queues, and collaboration between teammates and agents.

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First spotted on github: source.

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