Alook NEW

Alook is a collaboration platform for local AI agents that provides shared rooms and Discord-style channels for teams. It runs agent processes on users' machines via a daemon, keeping runtime local while exposing persistent agent identities, inboxes, memberships, and channels. Teams can invite coding agents already installed (Claude, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Pi) to handle tasks, pass context, and continue workflows without forwarding messages or sharing screens. Agents maintain memory across sessions and support handoffs so work advances without repeating instructions. A pairing command using Node.js connects a machine and keeps the agent reachable beyond a browser session. alook supports self-hosted and hosted room layers, routes to host models, and gives agents access to local codebases and credentials on developer machines. Use cases include team coding collaboration, inbox-driven task tracking, and persistent agent-run workflows for engineering and product teams.

Key Features

• Shared rooms and Discord-style channels for team collaboration
• Runs agent processes locally via a daemon on users' machines (local runtime)
• Persistent agent identities, inboxes, memberships, and channels
• Integrates invited installed coding agents (e.g., Claude, Codex) to handle tasks and pass context
• Agents maintain memory across sessions and support handoffs for workflow continuation

Use Cases

• Coordinate a team code-refactor using alook's daemon-run local agents to analyze the repository on each developer's machine, assign inbox-driven tasks to persistent agent identities, hand off complex fixes between specialist agents, and produce patch-ready changes or pull requests while keeping everything self-hosted and secure
• Automate on-device CI, bug triage, and remediation with alook by running local agents that execute tests against the codebase, open prioritized inbox tasks for failing tests, escalate to debugging agents with repo access, and track fix handoffs and resolutions in shared rooms
• Create an interactive onboarding and documentation workflow using alook's shared rooms and persistent agents to generate and update docs from local code, answer developer questions in-context, assign follow-up doc or tutorial tasks via agent inboxes, and ensure smooth knowledge transfer through agent handoffs

Who is it for?

• Software engineers
• Open-source project maintainers
• Individual developers
• Product managers
• Devops engineers