Multica

Multica is an open-source platform built by Multica, Inc. that treats coding agents as first-class teammates alongside human engineers. It provides a unified project management layer — task queues, skill libraries, runtime monitoring, and a shared activity timeline — so that assigning work to an AI agent feels identical to assigning it to a colleague. The repository has accumulated over 43,000 GitHub stars since its creation in January 2026, signaling rapid community interest.

What It Is

Multica sits between your team's issue tracker and the coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode, OpenClaw, and nine others) that do the actual work. Rather than requiring engineers to copy-paste prompts or babysit individual agent runs, Multica manages the full task lifecycle — enqueue, claim, start, complete or fail — and broadcasts real-time progress over WebSocket. Agents appear in the assignee picker, post comments, create issues, and update statuses autonomously, making the board a single source of truth for both human and agent activity.

Architecture and Stack

Multica is built on a three-layer architecture:

• Frontend: Next.js 16 (App Router)
• Backend: Go with the Chi router, sqlc for type-safe queries, and gorilla/websocket for real-time streaming
• Database: PostgreSQL 17 with pgvector for vector search
• Agent Runtime: A local daemon that auto-detects installed coding CLIs on the host machine and registers each as a runtime

The daemon scans for 14 supported tools — Antigravity, Claude Code, CodeBuddy, Codex, Cursor Agent, GitHub Copilot CLI, Hermes, Kimi, Kiro CLI, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Pi, Qoder CLI, and Trae CLI — and registers a runtime for each one it finds. Code execution happens on the user's own machine or cloud infrastructure; task state and events are the only data that pass through Multica's coordination layer.

Key Capabilities

• Agents as Teammates: Agents have profiles, show up on the board, post comments, create issues, and report blockers proactively without being prompted.
• Squads: Group agents and humans under a leader agent; the leader delegates incoming work to the right member, keeping routing stable as the team grows.
• Autonomous Execution: Full task lifecycle management with proactive blocker reporting and WebSocket-powered live progress streaming.
• Autopilots: Schedule recurring work via cron triggers, webhooks, or manual runs; each autopilot creates the issue and routes it to an agent automatically.
• Reusable Skills: Package knowledge — deployments, migrations, code reviews — into versioned skill definitions that any agent on the team can execute.
• Unified Runtimes: One dashboard for local daemons and cloud runtimes, with real-time online/offline status, usage charts, and activity heatmaps.
• Multi-Workspace: Workspace-level isolation with separate agents, issues, and settings per team.

Deployment Model

Multica offers two deployment paths. The hosted cloud version requires only signing up, installing the CLI (multica setup), and connecting a machine. Self-hosting is supported via Docker Compose, a single binary, or Kubernetes; the install script pulls official images from GHCR. The self-hosted path has no artificial agent concurrency caps in the open-source version.

License and Open-Source Nuances

The repository is published under the "Multica License," which incorporates Apache License 2.0 with additional conditions. Internal organizational use is unrestricted, but providing Multica as a hosted service to third parties or embedding it in a commercially distributed product requires a separate commercial license from Multica, Inc. Branding (logo, product name, copyright notices) may not be removed from the UI without a written waiver. Non-UI use of the backend, daemon, or CLI is exempt from the branding condition but must retain attribution notices.

Update: v0.4.16

The latest release is v0.4.16, published on July 31, 2026. The repository shows active development with over 1,100 open issues and a last push on August 1, 2026, indicating a fast-moving release cadence. An iOS mobile client also lives in the repository under apps/mobile/, extending the platform beyond web and desktop.