Your AI agents finally got an org chart

What it does Brigade is a terminal-first gateway for running multiple AI agents on your own machine. It spawns isolated agents with their own credentials and workspaces, wires them into an organizational hierarchy, and feeds them a shared long-term memory store called Tideline. You interact through a chat TUI or messaging apps like WhatsApp, Slack, and Discord, while the system reaches into external tools via Composio.

The interesting bit The org chart actually governs which agents can delegate to whom, and the whole crew shares one memory engine with hybrid keyword-vector recall and origin scoping. The “Bloody Benchmark” feature even lets you temporarily expose the gateway to the open internet through a tunnel so strangers can stress-test your agents at 3 a.m.

Key highlights

• Self-hosted by default: everything lives under ~/.brigade/, using local filesystem storage or an optional self-hosted Convex backend
• Bring-your-own-model support for Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama, Ollama, and OpenAI-compatible endpoints, with mid-conversation model switching
• Thin-client architecture: the gateway holds all state, so you can disconnect from the TUI and your agents keep running
• 1,000+ app connectors via Composio and an MCP memory server that exposes Tideline to external clients
• No SaaS middleman or telemetry; API keys stay local at mode 0600, and you can authenticate through existing Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot subscriptions

Verdict Developers who want a local, persistent multi-agent system with real memory and messaging integrations should look here. If you just need a single chat wrapper, this is overkill.