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The open-source workspace for building and running agents

Build agents that **automate your work** by chatting with them. Share them with **your team**, connect them to the apps you use, and run them in the **background**. --- ---

What is Agenta?

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• Agenta is an open-source workspace where you build specialized agents that automate and augment your work.

Use your Claude or ChatGPT subscription

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• When you self-host Agenta, you can run agents locally with your existing Claude or ChatGPT subscription. You do not need to move every task to metered API billing.

Choose your harness and model

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• more harnesses planned

Build with open agent standards

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• Define your agent with AGENTS.md , skills, and MCP servers. You can bring skills and MCP servers from the agent ecosystem into Agenta.

Make your agents more reliable over time

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• Agenta traces every run and keeps a version history of each agent configuration. Use this history to understand failures, compare changes, and improve your agents over time.

Features

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• Workspaces for you and your agents. Work with your agent on files in a shared workspace. Together, you can write documents, organize research, or maintain a wiki.

Try Agenta Cloud

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• The fastest way to try Agenta.

Self-host Agenta

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• Paste this into your agent and it will walk you through setup and testing:
• self-hosting documentation

Roadmap

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• Harnesses
• Create an issue to prioritize yours

n8n, Activepieces, and Zapier

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• These products are designed for building workflows with predefined steps. Agenta is designed for work that requires an agent to plan, use tools, and adapt its approach. Use a workflow builder for predictable processes. Use Agenta when the work needs judgment, or when you want the same agent to work with you in chat and run in the background.

Claude Cowork

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• Claude Cowork provides a workspace built around Claude. Agenta is open source and lets you choose your harness and model, inspect the components of your agents, and run them interactively or in the background.

Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and OpenCode

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• These coding agents provide the execution layer that plans work and uses tools. Agenta adds the shared workspace around that execution layer: files, team access, triggers, versions, and traces. Agenta supports Claude Code, Pi, and Codex today. Support for more harnesses is on the roadmap.

Community and contributing

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• Agenta is open source under the MIT License. You can inspect the code, run it yourself, and help shape what we build next.
• Read the documentation
• Report a bug
• Request a feature or share an idea
• Read the contributing guide
• Join the Slack community

⭐ Star Agenta

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• Consider giving us a star! It helps us grow our community and gets Agenta in front of more developers. </br> </br>

Contributors ✨

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