Open Multi-Agent

Open Multi-Agent (OMA) is a TypeScript-native, MIT-licensed AI agent orchestration framework built by 元定义科技 (YuanASI). It lets developers describe an outcome rather than hand-wire a task graph: a coordinator agent plans the directed acyclic graph (DAG) at runtime, assigns work across a team of agents, and executes it with a deterministic event-driven scheduler. The project launched on 2026-04-01 and, according to the repository, has accumulated over 6,700 GitHub stars and 2,400+ forks.

What It Is

Open Multi-Agent sits at the orchestration layer for TypeScript backend and AI platform teams that need several agents, dependencies, approvals, or recovery steps to work together. It is not a single-agent LLM toolkit and not a node-by-node graph authoring tool — it occupies the middle ground where the task graph should emerge from the goal at runtime. The core package (@open-multi-agent/core) ships the orchestration runtime, tools, memory, checkpoints, traces, a CLI, and an offline Run Viewer. An optional @open-multi-agent/otel package adds OpenTelemetry export for teams with centralized monitoring stacks.

How the Runtime Works

OMA exposes three primary execution modes:

• runTeam() — provide a goal string; the coordinator plans the task DAG, assigns agents, and synthesizes results.
• runTasks() — supply an explicit task graph and let OMA execute it with the same scheduler, governance, and observability.
• runAgent() — run a single agent call within the OMA runtime.

The event-driven scheduler removes round barriers: independent nodes run concurrently as soon as their dependencies are satisfied. Failed nodes are retried under task policy; budget exhaustion, malformed input, and non-retryable errors skip retries and surface FAILED state while independent branches continue. Token and cost budgets (maxTokenBudget, maxCostBudget) cap spending at turn and task boundaries.

Governance and Observability

OMA puts policy at the boundary it governs. Roles and review paths are declared per team; individual tool calls can be gated with onToolCall; plans can be previewed with planOnly before any agent executes; and approved plans can be frozen for replay. Every run produces execution receipts and traces. The offline Run Viewer replays the task DAG and span waterfall — including per-task status, assignee, token counts, and tool calls — without sending data to a hosted OMA service. The same records feed versioned EvalSets, offline reports, and CI quality gates.

Model and Provider Support

OMA supports cloud providers (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, DeepSeek), local endpoints via Ollama, OpenAI-compatible endpoints, natively integrated Chinese providers, and Vercel AI SDK providers. Tools are default-deny by design, and the core package has only three runtime dependencies. The framework can run fully offline or air-gapped on the developer's own credentials and infrastructure.

Adoption and Ecosystem

The repository lists several known users and integrations, attributed as vendor-published claims on the project homepage:

• temodar-agent (xeloxa) — WordPress security analysis platform running OMA built-in tools inside Docker, described as confirmed production use.
• PR-Copilot (kidoom) — AI pull-request review assistant using an OMA coordinator-plus-reviewer team with custom tools.
• StuFlow (znc15) — Terminal AI coding assistant driving OMA's orchestration core with DeepSeek.
• Engram — "Git for AI memory" integration syncing knowledge across agents.
• @agentsonar/oma — Sidecar detecting cross-run delegation cycles and rate bursts.

The project was featured in GithubAwesome's GitHub Trending Monthly #6, as noted on the homepage.

Update: v1.14.0

The latest release is v1.14.0, published 2026-08-01. The project launched 2026-04-01 under MIT and has been actively releasing since, with the repository showing 50 contributors and over 50 runnable examples across basics, cookbook workflows, patterns, providers, and integrations. The v1.13 runtime surface is documented as the current capabilities baseline, with v1.14.0 as the latest release tag.