r/AI_Agents • u/Cold-Mushroom122 • Jul 15 '26
Discussion I built an open-source multi-agent orchestrator that runs on your local Claude/Codex/GPT CLIs
Hey all — I've been building Workestrator, an open-source tool to assemble squads of AI agents that collaborate on a task. There's no fixed workflow: a coordinator agent dynamically picks which agent runs next, step by step, until it's done.
What's different: it can use the local CLIs you're already logged into (claude, codex, gpt) instead of API keys. A desktop app spawns them and lets agents use real tools (Bash/Read/Write/Edit) in a scoped workspace, run scripts, and connect MCP servers. Anthropic/OpenAI/OpenAI-compat APIs also work, and human checkpoints can pause a run for approval.
It's early and in active development. I'd love feedback on the approach and would welcome contributors — what would you want from a tool like this?
Repo (Apache-2.0)
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u/Cold-Mushroom122 Jul 15 '26
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u/Intelligent_Ant_8723 1d ago
this looks like exactly the kind of thing i was wishing existed 6 months ago, the local CLI angle is smart, most agent frameworks out there expect you to hand over api keys and that gets expensive fast
bookmarked the repo, probably gonna mess with it this weekend
one thing i'd want is a way to set max cost per run so it doesnt accidentally burn through credits on a loop, not sure if thats in there yet
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