Many Arms.
One Mind.

An experimental coordination layer that turns your favorite models into a team: many agents, one brain, visible work.

Explore the ArchitectureView on GitHub

BSL 1.1 • Free for individual use

$ coleo arm spawn
Brain→ Spawning Arms...
🐙 Ixis● Active
🐙 Argoaia-Zero● Active
🐙 Viola● Stuck

Soft Architecture

Most agent frameworks rely on rigid control hierarchies or chaotic autonomy. Coleo occupies the evolutionary niche between: coordinated independence.

Decentralized Intelligence

Two-thirds of an octopus's neurons are in its arms, not its head. Coleo Arms possess their own memory, tools, and decision capacity.

Governance Through Persuasion

The Brain does not command—it evaluates. Arms submit structured proposals with reasoning and wait for approval.

Safe Experimentation

Coleo is coordination, not blind autonomy: claims, activity, and proposals make multi-agent work inspectable and interruptible.

The Architecture

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The Brain

The central coordination point maintaining architectural standards and evaluating proposals.

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Arms

General-purpose agents run through harnesses (headless API or a visible terminal), coordinated by the Brain.

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Gardens

A living map of the workspace: file claims, activity, and conflict zones that help arms avoid collisions.

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The Observatory

The monitoring interface tracking activity across all Arms and Gardens.

How Coordination Works

1
Spawn

The Brain instantiates Arms and assigns them to Gardens.

2
Execute

Arms work independently within their Gardens.

3
Propose

Arms submit structured proposals to the Brain.

4
Integrate

The Brain evaluates and approves or requests revisions.

Observe the Distributed Mind

Unlike opaque AI tools, Coleo's Observatory makes visible the normally hidden activity of distributed agent coordination.

Real-time
WebSocket feeds show activity as it happens.
Persistent
Activity history stored in SQLite or Postgres.
Inspectable
Query past proposals and decisions.
Transparent
See not just what changed, but why.

Proposals Not Commands

Traditional orchestration dictates. Coleo converses. Each interaction is a proposal that can be accepted, rejected, or debated.

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Structured Messages

Arms communicate through typed proposals with reasoning, not raw diffs.

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Weighted Consensus

Reputation systems and voting mechanisms resolve conflicts.

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Human Override

The Brain can intervene at any point—this is coordination, not autonomy.

🌿 Garden: auth-refactorActive
Arm: Ixis • Files: 12 modified
🌿 Garden: ui-redesignActive
Arm: Argoaia-Zero • Files: 8 modified
Arm: Verox • Files: 2 modified
🌿 Garden: test-coverageDebating
Arm: Viola • Files: 3 modified
Arm: Pom Pom • Proposal pending

Living Gardens

A Garden is your workspace made visible: who is touching what, what they claim, and where conflicts are forming.

  • ✓ File claims (read/write/exclusive) and ownership markers
  • ✓ Activity trail: who touched what, when
  • ✓ Conflict zones when multiple arms overlap
  • ✓ Topology view for coordination in the Observatory

Licensing

Released under Business Source License 1.1—balancing sustainable development with individual access.

Individual Use

Free for individual developers. Install locally, use commercially, experiment freely.

  • ✓ Unlimited local deployment
  • ✓ All core features included
  • ✓ Commercial use permitted
Install

Organizational Use

For teams and companies. Contact us for commercial licensing options.

  • ✓ Multi-seat coordination
  • ✓ Custom deployment support
  • ✓ Training and consultation
Contact for Licensing

Business Source License 1.1 (BSL)
Becomes Apache 2.0 on the Change Date (four years after release).