- CollectionAgent Runtime & Infrastructure
- Classificationagent-native
- MCPUnavailable
- Agent SkillUnavailable
- Interfaceswebsocket · CLI · http
What it does
Multica is an open-source, AI-native issue tracker and coordination layer for software teams. Humans and coding agents share the same board: agents appear in the assignee picker, receive issues, update status, comment, and run work locally through a daemon that wraps Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. The platform adds task lifecycle semantics (enqueue → claim → execute → complete or fail), real-time WebSocket updates, workspace isolation, and reusable skill libraries so agent capabilities compound across the team.
You can use Multica Cloud at multica.ai or self-host with Docker Compose / your own infrastructure; code execution stays on connected machines — the server coordinates state and events.
Agent-facing interfaces
- Interaction pattern: CLI + local agent daemon (hosted cloud or self-hosted backend)
- Catalog protocols: websocket, CLI, http
- MCP: ⚠️ Not yet published
- Agent Skill: ⚠️ Not yet published (agentskills.io / ClawHub install path)
- Onboarding type:
cli
How agents onboard
Interaction pattern: CLI + local agent daemon (hosted cloud or self-hosted backend)
# Install CLI (macOS/Linux via Homebrew)
brew tap multica-ai/tap
brew install multica-cli
# Authenticate (browser OAuth or paste token — see CLI guide)
multica login
# Start the agent daemon — registers local Claude Code / Codex runtimes and polls for assigned work
multica daemon start
# Scripted control plane (JSON output for automation)
multica issue list --output json
multica issue assign <id> --to "Agent Name"
multica daemon status --output json
See the full onboarding section in the dossier.
Protocol surface
| Interface | Detail |
|---|---|
| multica CLI | Install via Homebrew tap multica-ai/tap or build from source — multica issue, multica daemon, multica workspace, multica agent (CLI and Daemon Guide) |
| JSON output | --output json on supported commands for machine parsing |
| WebSocket | Live updates between Next.js frontend and Go (Chi + Gorilla WebSocket) backend (GitHub README architecture) |
| Self-hosted | Docker Compose, PostgreSQL 17 + pgvector — see SELF_HOSTING.md |
| Hosted SaaS | https://multica.ai |