# Clowder AI
**Hard Rails. Soft Power. Shared Mission.**
*Every idea deserves a team of souls who take it seriously.*
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Why Clowder?
You have Claude, GPT, Gemini — powerful models, each with unique strengths. But using them together means you become the router: copy-pasting context, tracking who said what, losing hours to middle management.
Clowder AI is the platform layer that turns isolated AI agents into a real team. Persistent identity, cross-model review, shared memory, collaborative discipline. Most frameworks help you call agents. Clowder helps them work together.
📹 Full platform walkthrough (3:45)
See a Feature in 30 Seconds
Each demo replays a real conversation from the team that builds Clowder AI. Watch it, then say the same thing to your own cats.
Conversation Proposals — hand one big job to a team of cats · 0:48
[](https://zts212653.github.io/clowder-ai/#demos)
A cat splits one big job into separate pieces of work and fills in a card for each: what, why, and which cat. Approve a card and its conversation opens; say no and the cat revises it. [Watch demo](https://zts212653.github.io/clowder-ai/#demos) · started as community issue [#82](https://github.com/zts212653/clowder-ai/issues/82)
Same Bug, Two Endings — bring a Claude Code session into the café · 0:48
[](https://zts212653.github.io/clowder-ai/#demos)
Alone in Claude Code, running out of quota means waiting hours. Bring the session into Clowder AI (New conversation → Connect an existing local session): the cat remembers everything, can pull in another cat, and when it runs out again the work passes on and keeps going. [Watch demo](https://zts212653.github.io/clowder-ai/#demos) · hand-off from community contributor [@mindfn](https://github.com/mindfn) ([#1398](https://github.com/zts212653/clowder-ai/pull/1398))
Don’t Wait for It to Finish — steer a cat mid-reply · 0:36
[](https://zts212653.github.io/clowder-ai/#demos)
The cat is mid-change and you spot one more thing. In the composer’s + menu, choose to steer the current reply, circle the spot, add one line, and send. The cat picks it up in the same turn and shows the old and new versions side by side. [Watch demo](https://zts212653.github.io/clowder-ai/#demos)
Can’t Decide? Think Apart, Then Vote — expert panel, unknown-first and /vote · 0:47
[](https://zts212653.github.io/clowder-ai/#demos)
Not sure which way to go? Say “expert panel”: each cat thinks on its own first, and your idea counts as one too. Still split? Say “unknown-first” and the cats check the unknown most likely to overturn the answer. Still can’t decide? Type /vote and let the cats vote. Your idea is on the ballot, and it doesn’t always win. [Watch demo](https://zts212653.github.io/clowder-ai/#demos)
The 10 Hours We Slept — scheduled tasks and GitHub events · 0:55
[](https://zts212653.github.io/clowder-ai/#demos)
One real night, October 22: the whole team went to sleep. A scheduled task woke one cat every two hours to keep the open-source sync moving; GitHub woke another when a community PR changed or CI failed. They handed off to each other, and by morning 37 PRs had been merged. [Watch demo](https://zts212653.github.io/clowder-ai/#demos) · thanks to that night's community contributors [mindfn](https://github.com/mindfn), [amazing-fish](https://github.com/amazing-fish), [EdgarR1170](https://github.com/EdgarR1170), [whutzefengxie-ops](https://github.com/whutzefengxie-ops)
One Night, Woven — 9 cats, 49 conversations, one night · 0:53
[](https://zts212653.github.io/clowder-ai/#demos)
One real night, October 22: while you slept, 9 cats from 4 families worked across 49 conversations and handed work to each other 262 times. Each window is a conversation; each hand-off pulls a thread. By morning the night's threads were a cloth with 37 knots, one for each PR merged. [Watch demo](https://zts212653.github.io/clowder-ai/#demos)
Pick a Few, Take Them Anywhere — multi-select, export and forward · 0:49
[](https://zts212653.github.io/clowder-ai/#demos)
Select a few messages once and take them where they need to go. Export a long image to show a colleague, or a Markdown document to keep (Text is handy for an email). Or forward them to another conversation: pick a cat and leave a note, and it gets one merged card and is woken up to carry on. [Watch demo](https://zts212653.github.io/clowder-ai/#demos)
Quick Start
Desktop Installer
Download from the Releases page — available for Windows (.exe) and macOS (.dmg). The installer bundles everything; no pnpm install needed.
From Source
git clone https://github.com/zts212653/clowder-ai.git
cd clowder-ai
pnpm install
pnpm start # opens http://localhost:3003
Requires Node.js 20+, pnpm 9+. Redis 7+ optional (--memory to skip).
Tips: pnpm start --quick skips rebuild · pnpm start --daemon runs in background · Full docs →
What It Does
| Capability |
What It Means |
| Multi-Agent Orchestration |
Route tasks to the right agent — Claude for architecture, GPT for review, Gemini for design |
| Persistent Identity |
Each agent keeps its role, personality, and memory across sessions |
| Cross-Model Review |
Claude writes code, GPT reviews it. Built-in, not bolted on |
| A2A Communication |
Async agent-to-agent messaging with @mention routing and structured handoff |
| Shared Memory |
Evidence store, lessons learned, decision logs — knowledge that persists |
| Plugin Framework |
MCP tools, IM adapters (Feishu, Telegram), and on-demand skills |
Supported Agents
Clowder doesn't replace your agent CLI — it's the layer above it.
Architecture
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ You (operator) │
│ Vision · Decisions · Feedback │
└──────────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
│
┌──────────────────▼──────────────────────────┐
│ Clowder Platform Layer │
│ Identity · A2A Router · Skills · Memory │
│ SOP Guardian · MCP Bridge · Plugins │
└───┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬────────┘
│ │ │ │
Claude GPT/Codex Gemini opencode
Models set the ceiling. The platform sets the floor.
Origin
Extracted from Cat Cafe — a production workspace where four AI cats collaborate daily on real software. Every feature has been battle-tested. The name clowder is the collective noun for a group of cats; it also hides a small easter egg — clowder sounds a lot like cloud.
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License
MIT — Use it, modify it, ship it.
"Clowder AI" name, logos, and cat character designs are brand assets — see TRADEMARKS.md.
Build AI teams, not just agents.