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# Agor
> Agor is Multiplayer AI. Teams work together on live spatial boards with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, and Cursor in beta) and long-lived AI teammates. It manages branches (isolated workspaces backed by git worktrees or self-standing clones), tracks AI conversations, visualizes work on spatial boards, and enables real-time collaboration.
Agor is source-available software licensed under BSL 1.1 (never describe it as open source). The npm-installed, self-hosted version is **Agor Community Edition**; **Agor Cloud** is the managed service. Production use is permitted by its Additional Use Grant; commercializing Agor itself as the defined Agor Offering is not. Each version later converts to Apache License 2.0 under the license terms.
- Website: https://agor.live
- GitHub: https://github.com/preset-io/agor
- Discord: https://discord.gg/Qh4TrFQZpd
## Product Overview
- [Multiplayer AI](https://agor.live/multiplayer): Bring your team and agents together on live boards, learn from how colleagues work with AI, and build on what works
- [Live Spatial Boards](https://agor.live/board): Organize agent work with boards and zones, follow agents as they work, and bring colleagues into the same view
- [AI Teammates](https://agor.live/teammates): Raise AI teammates with memory, shared knowledge, skills, and tool connections; work with them on the board or in Slack
- [Agent Roster](https://agor.live/agent-roster): The AI teammates Preset runs on its own Agor instance, and the framework they're built on
- [Command Center](https://agor.live/command-center): Reusable prompts and workflows, a knowledge base, artifacts, branch environments, and an MCP server agents drive themselves
- [Governance & Observability](https://agor.live/governance): Permissions, usage tracking, execution isolation, model choice, and self-hosted or managed deployment
- [Agor Cloud](https://agor.live/cloud): Fully managed Agor for your whole team; bring your own keys, hosted or in your own AWS
## Core Documentation
- [Getting Started](https://agor.live/guide/getting-started): Install Agor and follow the onboarding wizard — your first AI teammate takes it from there
- [Raising Your First AI Teammate](https://agor.live/guide/first-teammate): The short path to succeeding with Agor: raise one named AI teammate, give it a real job, and let it guide the rest
## Core Primitives
- [Branches](https://agor.live/guide/branches): Isolated workspaces backed by git worktrees or self-standing clones — the primary unit of work in Agor
- [Sessions & Trees](https://agor.live/guide/sessions): AI conversations that fork, spawn subsessions, and ask side questions (BTW)
- [Boards & Zones](https://agor.live/guide/boards): 2D spatial canvases for organizing branches, with templated zone triggers
## Using Agor
- [Sharing & Permissions](https://agor.live/guide/permissions): Board and branch roles, ownership transfer, and shared-session boundaries
- [MCP Catalog & Connections](https://agor.live/guide/mcp-servers): Connect tools, manage personal authorization, and recover connections
- [Features Overview](https://agor.live/guide/features-overview): Map of all major features
- [Teammates](https://agor.live/guide/teammates): Persistent AI teammates with memory, skills, orchestration, and scheduled heartbeats
- [Knowledge](https://agor.live/guide/knowledge): Built-in knowledge base for shared context, searchable memory, and a doc graph humans and agents use together
- [Agor MCP Server](https://agor.live/guide/internal-mcp): Built-in MCP server: agents drive Agor through the same API as the UI
- [Rich Chat UX](https://agor.live/guide/rich-chat-ux): Per-prompt token/$ accounting, context viz, tool blocks, queueing, autocomplete, Streamdown
- [In-Conversation Widgets](https://agor.live/guide/in-conversation-widgets): Inline interactive UI in the transcript that captures user input without it entering the LLM's context
- [Multiplayer & Social](https://agor.live/guide/multiplayer-social): Live cursors, facepile, spatial comments, attention pulse, shared terminals
- [Environments](https://agor.live/guide/environment-configuration): Per-branch dev environments with auto-assigned unique ports
- [Scheduler](https://agor.live/guide/scheduler): Cron-driven agent sessions attached to branches
- [Cards](https://agor.live/guide/cards): Generic workflow entities on boards (beta)
- [Artifacts](https://agor.live/guide/artifacts): Live, interactive Sandpack apps rendered on the canvas
- [Message Gateway](https://agor.live/guide/message-gateway): Route messages from Slack, Discord, GitHub, Shortcut, and Microsoft Teams into Agor sessions
## API Reference
- [API Reference](https://agor.live/api-reference): Interactive REST API documentation with Swagger UI
- [WebSocket Events](https://agor.live/api-reference/websockets): Real-time Socket.io event reference for sessions, tasks, messages, and presence
- [TypeScript Client](https://agor.live/guide/typescript-client): Drive Agor from TypeScript/JavaScript with @agor-live/client — REST, real-time Socket.IO, and a reactive session API
## Operating Agor
- [Operator Overview](https://agor.live/guide/operating): Installation, security, maintenance, and upgrade entry points
- [Deployment Configuration](https://agor.live/guide/config-yaml): Deployment-owned settings and telemetry
- [MCP Administration](https://agor.live/guide/mcp-administration): Tenant security modes, OAuth client recovery, and shared-grant migrations
- [Daemon High Availability](https://agor.live/guide/daemon-ha): Supported multi-daemon topology and rollout requirements
- [Multi-Tenant Filesystem](https://agor.live/guide/multi-tenant-filesystem): Tenant storage layout
- [Tenant Data Portability](https://agor.live/guide/tenant-data-portability): Export, import, and verification
- [Extended Installation](https://agor.live/guide/extended-install): Docker, source builds, authentication options, and custom config locations
- [One-Time Launch Auth](https://agor.live/guide/one-time-launch-auth): Launch-code handoff so trusted external apps can open authenticated Agor sessions
- [Execution Isolation](https://agor.live/guide/multiplayer-unix-isolation): RBAC with fail-closed local sandboxing or delegated execution for shared environments
- [Containerized Execution](https://agor.live/guide/containerized-execution): Running Agor executors in Kubernetes, Docker, or containerized environments
## Developing & Reference
- [Development Guide](https://agor.live/guide/development): Contributing to Agor — development environment setup and codebase structure
- [Architecture](https://agor.live/guide/architecture): System architecture, daemon-based design, typed TypeScript client, data flow
- [SDK Comparison](https://agor.live/guide/sdk-comparison): Feature matrix for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, and Cursor (beta) integrations
## Other
- [Security](https://agor.live/security): Practical guidance for operating Agor safely
- [FAQ](https://agor.live/faq): Frequently asked questions about branches, session forking, spawning, and multiplayer workflow
## Optional
- [Agor Cloud Open Beta](https://agor.live/blog/agor-cloud-open-beta): Multiplayer AI on live spatial boards, shared workflows, and hosted open beta
- [Meet Blake](https://agor.live/blog/meet-blake): Guest post from Preset's AI deal desk enforcer, which reviews order forms, CRM records, and signed contracts
- [Meet Bug Basher](https://agor.live/blog/meet-bug-basher): The AI agent that hunts bugs in Apache Superset: isolation, gates, verification, and memory
- [Meet Hodor](https://agor.live/blog/meet-hodor): An Agor teammate that works PM shifts, in its own words
- [Meet Wendy](https://agor.live/blog/meet-wendy-preset-ai-competitive-intelligence-analyst): Preset's AI competitive-intelligence analyst: memory, scheduled heartbeats, and orchestration in Agor
- [Why Agor Is Leaving Unix Impersonation Behind](https://agor.live/blog/why-agor-is-leaving-unix-impersonation-behind): Why mapping Agor RBAC onto Unix users and groups was the wrong foundation
- [Is the IDE Obsolete?](https://agor.live/blog/whos-still-using-an-ide): Agentic work now spans parallel workstreams, conversations, and review surfaces
- [Introducing Agor Teammates](https://agor.live/blog/agor-assistants): Persistent AI companions with memory, skills, and team-wide reach through Slack
- [Agent Modeling 101](https://agor.live/blog/agent-modeling-101): Designing long-lived agents for teams — scoping, operating, governing, and building trust
- [Raise a Team Helper Agent in an Afternoon](https://agor.live/blog/raise-team-helper-agent): A practical recipe for a PM-style teammate that remembers context and keeps a team aligned
- [Claude Tag Validates the Category](https://agor.live/blog/claude-tag-vs-agor-assistants): Why teams still need modeled, governed, observable, multi-specialist teammates
- [Agor-OpenClaw Framework](https://agor.live/blog/agor-openclaw): OpenClaw patterns running 100% inside Agor
- [Agor vs. OpenClaw](https://agor.live/blog/openclaw): What the fastest-growing open-source project teaches us about agentic AI
- [Agor Cloud Private Beta](https://agor.live/blog/agor-cloud): Fully managed Agor with tenant-scoped execution isolation and enterprise observability
- [Agor Platform](https://agor.live/blog/agor-platform): Agor as a full platform — REST API, CLI, and TypeScript client
- [The Orchestration Layers](https://agor.live/blog/orchestration-layers): How software development evolved from prompts to orchestrating multiple AI agents
- [Context Engineering](https://agor.live/blog/context-engineering): Maintainable AI context with bite-sized markdown nuggets
- [Making of Agor](https://agor.live/blog/making-of-agor): Behind the scenes of building Agor
- [Agor Announcement](https://agor.live/blog/announcement): Original launch announcement
