OpenRig: open-source local control plane that runs Claude Code and Codex as one managed team
A local control plane for multi-agent coding topologies: define agent teams (pods, seats, communication edges, continuity policies) in YAML, boot everything with `rig up`, and manage it live through CLI, TUI and an MCP server. The agents themselves are ordinary Claude Code and Codex sessions running in tmux.
Why it matters
It manages the system the agents form, not the agents themselves: snapshot and restore whole topologies by name, broadcast messages across agents, adopt stray tmux sessions into a rig, and let agents manage their own topology via MCP tools.
What you could build with it
A software team's dev-infra owner can turn ad-hoc agent sessions into persistent, snapshottable rigs: a YAML-defined 'product team' of 4 Claude plus 3 Codex seats with orchestration and review pods that survives reboots.
Does it hold up?
Early but real: v0.3.1 ships as an npm package with a full CLI surface and source-verified as-built docs; needs Node.js plus tmux, and single-plan users will hit provider throttling with multi-seat rigs.
Built with OpenRig
- OpenRig product writeuparticle · Third-party overview of OpenRig's daemon/CLI/TUI/MCP architecture, YAML-defined topologies and session adoption.
- OpenRig: Claude Code + Codex in 1 Rig - Free Open Source (video walkthrough)youtube · Hands-on video tour: YAML-defined rigs, named seats, owner-plus-checker review pattern, TUI dashboard, and Herdr/cmux integration.
- OpenRig: Multi-Agent Harness Architecture for Persistent Terminal Coordinationdev.to · Third-party architecture analysis: harness/rig/session layers, lead-agent delegation pattern, and the shift to persistent team structures.
Learn more
First spotted on github: source.
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