Captain Claw

Captain Claw is an open-source platform designed to orchestrate multiple AI agents for complex tasks, offering users a command center called the Flight Deck to spawn, monitor, and coordinate specialist teams. Unlike single-agent chat tools, it enables the management of a fleet of AI agents, each with its own model, role, and toolset, all from a unified dashboard on the user's machine. The platform supports six distinct orchestration modes, allowing users to tailor the collaboration and workflow of agents to the specific demands of their tasks, such as ensemble reasoning, structured deliberation, and software engineering pipelines.

Each agent within Captain Claw can be assigned a unique combination of models—including options like GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Ollama—and a selection from 48 built-in tools. The system provides live monitoring, per-agent chat, file inspection, and log access without interrupting the work of other agents. Users can analyze token usage and costs at the agent level, with a comprehensive activity log that traces every tool invocation, consultation, and hand-off. Quick Chat functionality allows for rapid agent instantiation using predefined archetypes, which can be promoted to the main workspace as needed.

The platform features a library of 31 editable agent archetypes covering roles in research, writing, engineering, data analysis, operations, finance, and multimedia. Users can build teams by selecting archetypes manually or by describing an objective in plain English, which prompts the system to design a team with appropriate roles, models, tools, and standard operating procedures. Structured deliberation is facilitated through the Agent Council mode, where agents participate in moderated rounds and vote, with the ability to export session minutes as markdown. For high-confidence outputs, Basna mode enables independent, blind responses from specialists that are merged by reliability, while Vatra mode supports collaborative drafting on a shared blackboard with review rounds.

Captain Claw is distributed under the MIT License and runs locally. Its open-source nature and flexible orchestration modes make it suitable for users who need to coordinate specialized AI agents for tasks spanning research, engineering, analysis, and complex decision-making.