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open-multi-agent

Open Multi Agent — a self-hosted TypeScript agent runtime with durable approvals and verifiable run records.

★ 7.0k stars⑂ 2.4k forksMITupdated 2026-10
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// project facts

Project facts

open-multi-agent is an open-source ai agents project by open-multi-agent (open-multi-agent/open-multi-agent on GitHub). It has 6,990 GitHub stars and 2,437 forks, is released under the MIT license, and was last updated on GitHub on 8 October 2026.

GitHub stars
6,990
Forks
2,437
License
MIT
Last updated on GitHub
8 October 2026
Category
AI Agents
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Full install guide
Official site
Official site
// how it works

How it works

  1. Clarify your goal

    Decide your governance floor upfront: which actions need human approval, what the egress policy allows, and which providers' keys the runtime may use.

  2. Get the project

    Clone open-multi-agent/open-multi-agent from GitHub (or use the install path in the run steps below) and skim its README for the parts relevant to your goal.

  3. Install and configure

    Add @open-multi-agent/core to your TypeScript project from npm and configure your provider adapters.

  4. Run your first task

    Define one agent and one task, run it, then inspect the verifiable run record and test that an approval-gated step really pauses.

// features

Why people love it

Durable approvals

Approval gates survive restarts — a run can pause for a human decision and resume later, rather than living only in memory.

Verifiable journal

Every run produces a verifiable record, so what agents did can be audited after the fact.

Governance floor

A baseline of governance controls that child policies can only tighten, with enforcement that fails closed when a transport cannot be enforced.

Many provider adapters

Built-in adapters for major hosted providers and Chinese cloud models, plus local runtimes (Ollama, vLLM, llama-server) through baseURL and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Egress policy

Set offline or allowlist egress, checked before a built-in adapter connects — your keys, your models, your network rules.

No phone-home

No telemetry, no OMA backend or account, and no analytics, license or update requests — it is a library you host.

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// run it

Run it yourself

  1. Clone the repository

    Get the source from the official GitHub repository for open-multi-agent.

    git clone https://github.com/open-multi-agent/open-multi-agent.git
    cd open-multi-agent
  2. Install the runtime

    Add the core package to your project exactly as the README's get-started section shows.

    npm install @open-multi-agent/core
  3. Define and run an agent

    Follow the README get-started example to define an agent/team and run your first task with its journal enabled.

    # Use the README get-started code (runAgent / runTeam) in your project — see README
// use cases

What you can build

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// faq

Questions, answered

Who maintains open-multi-agent?

The open-multi-agent project, through the open-multi-agent/open-multi-agent repository, with the site at open-multi-agent.com.

Is open-multi-agent free to use?

Yes — the project is open source under the MIT license as recorded for this listing. You can use, modify and distribute it under the MIT terms.

Does open-multi-agent need a paid API key?

You supply the model access — provider API keys for hosted models, or local runtimes such as Ollama for free local inference; the runtime itself is free and MIT licensed.

How does Open Multi Agent compare to a typical agent orchestration framework?

Typical frameworks optimise for getting agents running quickly. OMA optimises for governing them — durable approvals, verifiable journals, egress policy and zero telemetry — which matters once agents act in production under real accountability.

How do I get started with open-multi-agent?

Clone the repository (or use the documented installer), follow the install and configure steps on this page, and run the smallest real task first — define one agent and one task, run it, then inspect the verifiable run record and test that an approval-gated step really pauses.

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