Your AI coding agents now have email addresses and an org chart

What it does

Alook is a self-hosted orchestration layer for local AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode. You assign each agent a role—dev, ops, research—give them an @alook.ai email address, and draw up an org chart so they can delegate work among themselves. It adds a shared kanban board, calendars, and persistent memory, letting agents pick up tasks, schedule routines, and remember past decisions while your codebase stays on your machine.

The interesting bit

The architecture is intentionally split: your local hardware runs the agents and their working directories, while a lightweight hosted relay built on Next.js, Cloudflare Workers, and Bun handles email routing, WebSockets, and a SQLite-backed dashboard. The email-native design means human-to-agent and agent-to-agent chatter all flows through inboxes, turning your AI workforce into a surprisingly literal interpretation of “inbox zero.”

Key highlights

• Bring-your-own-agent support for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode, with Cursor, Hermes, and OpenClaw listed as coming soon.
• Local-first execution: agents run on your machine with full tool access, reachable from anywhere via the cloud relay.
• Pre-built company templates for scenarios like open-source maintainer, indie hacker ship crew, and DevOps monitor.
• Full traceability logs every instruction, decision, and reply instead of leaving operations in a black box.
• Self-learning memory that accumulates context and preferences from completed tasks.

Caveats

• Several promised agents—including Cursor—are marked “Coming Soon,” so the BYOA roster is currently limited to three.
• Despite the self-hosted framing, the email bridge and dashboard rely on a hosted cloud relay that your local machine polls; fully air-gapped operation is not the target architecture.

Verdict

Worth exploring if you already run local coding agents and want to automate multi-step workflows across role-based pseudo-employees without a SaaS orchestration bill. Look elsewhere if you need a fully offline, air-gapped multi-agent setup—the platform is designed around a persistent cloud relay for email and dashboards.