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triggerSelfWake fired only when the completing agent had at least one actionable task (todo / in_progress). A CEO in team_building mode has zero tasks by definition — each heartbeat hired one or two agents, returned, and then waited for the next 2-minute timer tick. Operators watched bootstrap crawl: in the captured field log, six heartbeats burned 12 minutes before the first hire landed. Teach triggerSelfWake to also chain when the agent is a top-level CEO with active goals, zero active direct reports, and no already-pending hire_agent approvals — the exact state team_building.en.md is telling the model to resolve. The existing circuit breaker (MAX_CONSECUTIVE_WAKES without progress) still applies, so a CEO that keeps returning without filing hires gets paused and its manager wake — the board / human — is raised instead. Once reports activate or all intended hires are filed, the predicate flips to false and runs resume the normal heartbeat cadence.
AgentCompany
Run an AI company from your desktop.
What it does
Type a company name and a goal. A CEO agent boots, hires specialists, forms departments, and runs the business. You approve or steer from the desktop.
Local, SQLite-backed, no external services. Inspired by Paperclip.
26 providers, no CLI
The runtime links pi-mono directly.
OAuth (5): Claude Pro/Max · ChatGPT Plus/Pro (Codex) · GitHub Copilot · Gemini CLI · Antigravity
API key (18): Anthropic · OpenAI · Google · Mistral · Groq · Cerebras · xAI · OpenRouter · Vercel AI Gateway · ZAI · OpenCode · OpenCode Go · Hugging Face · Kimi · MiniMax · MiniMax CN · Fireworks · Fireworks Firepass
Cloud (3): Azure OpenAI · AWS Bedrock · Google Vertex AI
Credentials are SecretVault-encrypted in SQLite.
Two execution modes
- AI CEO — autonomous. Hiring, tasks, deliverables run without you.
- AI Co-Founder — pauses at
hire_agent/document_review/plan_review/strategy_reviewfor your decision.
Switch at Settings → Execution mode.
Features
Self-organizing teams
CEO builds the org chart from one goal.
Agent messaging
Threads and DMs between agents. Direct / department / project / company / incident channels resolve to wake targets; each message lands in the recipient's transcript as a pi AgentMessage turn. If the recipient is already running, the message is delivered live via pi's steer queue; if not, it waits in the inbox until the next prepareRun.
Tasks
Goals break into tasks. Agents pick them up, report progress, escalate blockers.
Approvals
Hiring, deliverables, plan/scope/strategy reviews, budget overrides, production deploys pause for the board. The same approval policy gates the agent's destructive tools (bash / write / edit) via pi's beforeToolCall hook, so a pending approval stops file and shell mutations instead of just flagging them after the fact.
Documents
Plans, strategies, and specs in a shared center, linked to the tasks that produced them.
Launch in a minute
Name, mission, goal, provider, mode.
Quick Start
Download the latest release — macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel), Windows, Linux.
Build from source
# Node.js 22+, pnpm 10+
pnpm install
pnpm dev
First run
- Onboarding probes your shell PATH for
node(agents call the local HTTP API vianode -e). - Settings → Providers. Sign in or drop a key.
- Create a company: name, mission, goal, mode, workspace.
Verification
pnpm typecheck
pnpm lint
pnpm test:unit
pnpm test:integration
pnpm test:e2e
pnpm build:verify
Packaging
pnpm build # Package for current platform → /build/release
pnpm build:dir # Unpackaged directory
pnpm build:current # Current host platform
pnpm release:local # Signed release pipeline — see docs/release/local-r2.md
Targets: macOS .dmg, Windows .exe (NSIS), Linux .AppImage. Built with electron-builder. Local builds use ad-hoc signing (CSC_IDENTITY_AUTO_DISCOVERY=false). Defaults to --publish never.
Architecture
src/
main/
agent-runtime/ RuntimeBridge, SqliteSessionStore, CostWriter
credentials/ CredentialStore, Resolver, OAuthLoginService
api-server/ Agent HTTP API
orchestration/ Scheduler, run dispatch
prompt-builder/ System prompt assembly
thread-integration/ Thread runtime event routing
worker/ utilityProcess worker — direct new Agent(...)
database/ SQLite schema + migrations
preload/ Typed DesktopApi via contextBridge
renderer/ React 19 UI
shared/ Zod schemas shared across processes
- SQLite local; no external services.
contextIsolation: true,nodeIntegration: false, Zod-validated IPC.- Worker constructs
new Agent({...})from@mariozechner/pi-agent-corewith the full contract:sessionId,thinkingLevel, and thebeforeToolCall/afterToolCall/transformContexthooks proxied back toRuntimeBridgeon main. - Sessions persist as
session_entries; long transcripts auto-compact at LLM-call time via a puretransformContextreducer, and rotate at the long-cycle boundary. beforeToolCallenforces the approval gate plus thread wait-state guard at the tool-execution layer; mid-run messages reach live agents through pi's steering queue.- Workspace locks are single-writer-per-repo — every resolved workspace is held exclusively for the duration of the run; contenders queue on the wakeup table.
- Thread runtime (
conversation_threads/conversation_events/thread_wait_states) sits above pi'sAgentMessagestream. - Startup only runs schema migrations plus
interruptStaleRuns; all other data-repair lives at the transition point or in explicit maintenance paths.
Tech Stack
| Layer | Tech |
|---|---|
| Framework | Electron 39.8.0 |
| Language | TypeScript 5.9 |
| UI | React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, Framer Motion, Zustand |
| Build | electron-vite, Vite 7, electron-builder |
| Database | SQLite via node:sqlite (WAL) |
| Validation | Zod 4 |
| Agent runtime | @mariozechner/pi-ai, @mariozechner/pi-agent-core, @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent |
| Testing | Vitest, Playwright |