munder-difflin

Munder Difflin

Agent harness to run an office of your clones

Free, open source and performant. A multi-agent harness that works with the subscriptions you already pay for, on their hourly limits. It turns the terminal coding CLI you already run into a clone of you, one that keeps working while you're away and coordinates a whole office of agents on your own machine.

Wraps Claude Code, Antigravity (Gemini), OpenAI Codex, xAI Grok, Kimi Code, Gemini CLI, Qwen, OpenCode, Crush, pi.dev, GitHub Copilot CLI, and Cursor, with bring-your-own keys and local LLMs. Agents that message, route, and remember, coordinated by your clone (Michael) and visualized as avatars at work on a shared office floor.

Electron · React · TypeScript · Pixi.js · xterm.js · node-pty

⬇ Download 0.5.6 for macOS, Windows or Linux

_{macOS builds are signed and notarized. You do not need to build from source to use it. The open source build is on the GitHub releases page.}

Cancel your Granola and Wispr Flow subscriptions. It dictates into any app and transcribes your meetings, all running locally.

New here? Start with the install guide, then your first hour, and see every agent on our own floor.

_{Launch offer: Pro is free for everyone until Saturday 24 October 2026: download the app and sign in. After that the Pro annual plan is $150 USD, adjusted for purchasing power in different countries and as low as $100 a year. Get Pro}

• Supported agents
• What it is
• How it works
• Features
• Getting started
• Architecture & project structure
• Roadmap
• Contributing
• Telemetry
• License
• Acknowledgements

Bring the CLI you already pay for. Every one of these runs as a real process in its own terminal, with your existing subscription and its hourly limits. If it runs in a terminal, it can run here.

Claude Code Codex · GPT Grok · xAI Kimi Code Gemini CLI Antigravity · Gemini Qwen OpenCode Crush · Charm Pi GitHub Copilot Cursor + any custom command

Plus bring your own keys and local models through Ollama, LM Studio or vLLM.

Munder Difflin is a desktop app that wraps real terminal-agent CLIs as fully-capable agents, wires them into a hive mind, and puts your clone in charge. Michael is the one agent you talk to in order to get things done. Under the hood it runs the fastest memory layer in the world so every agent remembers what it learns and recalls it instantly.

• Every terminal is an agent. Each claude, agy, codex, grok, kimi, qwen, opencode, crush, pi, copilot, or custom session runs as a real process in a pseudo-terminal (node-pty), byte-for-byte authentic, rendered with xterm.js.
• Every agent is an avatar. Sessions appear as characters on a Pixi.js office floor. They walk to stations as they work, and envelopes fly desk-to-desk when they message each other.
• The hive coordinates them. Agents read their memory and drain a mailbox; the router moves messages between inboxes; the GOD agent adjudicates, assigns, and escalates only when it needs you.
• Memory that's instant. A markdown-first memory layer with a semantic recall index means agents remember across sessions and recall in milliseconds.

            you ── talk to ──►  ┌─────────────┐
                                │  GOD agent  │  orchestrator / supervisor
                                │ (Michael's  │  roster · routing · adjudication
                                │   office)   │  blackboard · task ledger
                                └──────┬──────┘
                                       │ assigns · routes · escalates
              ┌────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┐
              ▼                         ▼                         ▼
        ┌───────────┐            ┌───────────┐            ┌───────────┐
        │  agent A  │  message   │  agent B  │  message   │  agent C  │
        │ provider  │ ─────────► │ provider  │ ─────────► │ provider  │
        │  + memory │            │  + memory │            │  + memory │
        └───────────┘            └───────────┘            └───────────┘
              └──────── shared hive: memory · mailbox · blackboard · log ───────┘

1. You spawn agents: each is a normal terminal process (claude, agy, codex, or custom) with its own working directory, identity, and provider-specific lifecycle.
2. Agents collaborate through the hive: a local git repo of plain files. They write to their own outbox/; the harness's router delivers into recipients' inbox/. No agent ever touches git (single-committer design avoids index.lock corruption).
3. The GOD agent runs the floor: it reads every request, resolves routine ones itself (keeping the system fully autonomous), and only escalates critical items (spend, destructive ops, scope changes) into an approvals queue you act on.
4. Everything is visible: you watch avatars move, envelopes fly, and the live terminal stream; you can type back into any session, browse its files, and read its git history.

See HIVE.md for the full multi-agent design, SPEC.md for the terminal/event plane, and DESIGN.md for the visual system.

Cancel your Granola and Wispr Flow subscriptions Dictate into any app. Hold Option on the Mac, or Control+Alt+Space on Windows and Linux (X11), talk, and let go. The words land in whatever field is in front of you, and in every text box inside Munder Difflin. The message box mic works in the free build too. Meetings hear both sides, in Stapler, part of Pro. Your microphone is written as You and the call's audio as Them, on Mac, Windows and Linux. Shift+Command+Space starts and stops a meeting on the Mac, Control+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux. Correct the transcript, add a description, and send it to any of your agents. Transcription on your machine. A Whisper model ships inside the app and is the default engine. A larger model is one download away, Apple's on device recogniser works on macOS 26, and Groq stays off unless you add a key. 126 built in technical names plus your own words. English for now.	One row per agent, and it tells you everything Classic, the free skin, gets the new agent cards: status, engine, model, a context gauge, the ticket it is on and the action it is taking right now, a crash strip instead of a silent terminal, and a right click menu for the common jobs. Pro gets the new sidebar: Tasks, Inbox, Automations, Memory, Capabilities and the Stapler at the top, agents grouped under their projects, a live line per agent, Asked you on the row when an agent has a question, notes you can search, and Keep my agent order to drag agents and projects where you want them. Drag the sidebar's edge to make it wider, hover a ticket for its details, or switch to agents and notes only.
Talk to one agent, not twelve Michael is your clone and the only agent you brief. He assigns the work, routes the traffic, and escalates the few things that actually need you.
Hire an agent in a few clicks Pick the CLI, the model and the autonomy, give it a desk, and it starts working. Import a ready made role from the Agent Gallery if you would rather not start from scratch.
Memory that survives the session Every agent keeps markdown memory that is mined into a shared, searchable palace. Close the app, come back tomorrow, and they still know what they learned.
Autonomy with a leash Set how far each agent may go on its own. Spend, scope and destructive operations come back to you, and a circuit breaker steers, constrains, then stops anything that loops or runs away.
Watch the whole floor work Agents walk to stations as they work and envelopes fly desk to desk when they message each other. Click any desk to read that terminal live, and type straight back into it.
Set up once The onboarding wizard checks what you already have, and offers to install what is missing rather than sending you to a docs page.

The floor

• Every terminal is a real agent. Claude Code, Antigravity (Gemini), OpenAI Codex, xAI Grok, Kimi Code, Gemini CLI, Qwen, OpenCode, Crush, pi.dev, GitHub Copilot CLI, Cursor, or a custom command, each in its own node-pty PTY, rendered with xterm.js.
• Every agent is an avatar. A Pixi.js office floor where agents walk to stations, envelopes fly desk to desk, and avatar state reflects real work.
• A GOD orchestrator you talk to. It routes tasks, adjudicates traffic, and escalates only what needs a human. Or press Talk and run the floor by voice.
• Per-agent git worktrees. Optional isolation so parallel agents never collide on branches.
• More than one floor (0.5.3). File, New Floor opens another office on its own folder, in its own window, with its own agents, board and memory. A folder only ever opens in one floor, and one licence covers them all.

Memory & coordination

• The hive: per-agent memory, atomic-file mailboxes, a shared blackboard, an append-only event log, single-committer git.
• Semantic recall: markdown memory mined into a shared palace, searchable from the UI, with condensation so it doesn't grow forever.
• Enterprise Knowledge Graph: your own documents and policies, queryable by any agent.

Control & safety

• Human gates: spend, scope, and destructive ops escalate to you. Steer mid-run or stop gracefully.
• Circuit breaker: a steer → constrain → stop ladder for agents that loop, storm errors, or blow their budget.
• Budgets & telemetry: per-agent token budgets, real cost from transcripts, a durable ledger, OTel spans, and a tool waterfall.

Command Center

• Tickets with keys (0.5.3): every card gets a key like V53-299, each agent has a Tasks tab with what it did and when, and the Tasks screen filters by date.
• Kanban tasks with dependencies, scheduled missions + heartbeat, live fleet monitoring, memory search, activity log, and a CI watcher.
• Skills: what every agent can already do across Claude Code, OpenCode and Codex, plus a browsable catalog of 227 more with search, filters, install and uninstall.
• Built-in Monaco IDE: file tree, editor tabs, save, plus CHANGES · HISTORY · COMPARE git rails with commit graph, diffs, branch compare, and guarded checkout. All fs/git access brokered through main.

Getting work in and out

• Slack & webhooks: message a channel or POST a webhook; Michael can spawn an ephemeral worker, reply in-thread, and tear it down.
• Shareable hires + Agent Gallery: import a role from a munderdifflin://hire link; import only pre-fills the form, a human still spawns it. Browse roles at the Agent Gallery.
• Local transcription and dictation (0.5.3): dictate into any app (Option on the Mac, Control+Alt+Space on Windows and Linux X11), and Stapler in Pro transcribes meetings with You and Them on Mac, Windows and Linux. A bundled Whisper model is the default engine; Apple's on device recogniser on macOS 26 and Groq with your own key are options. A built in vocabulary of 126 technical names keeps Anthropic, Claude, Kubernetes and ARR spelled right, and you can add your own.
• Tell an agent from the Stapler (Pro): Record message, several screenshots per message, PDFs, videos and folders, and a To menu that remembers who you picked.
• BYOK keys + local LLMs: per-provider keys in a write-only secret broker, plus Ollama / LM Studio / vLLM base URLs. Guides: open models · Mac Mini.
• Updates in one click: the title-bar badge runs the real update. It downloads the build for your machine, then restarts and installs it, and it reads latest once a check confirms you are current. A manual download is the fallback for when the updater cannot fetch the build itself. The first run afterwards opens that release's notes as a designed page rather than a version number.
• Your language: English, Simplified Chinese and Arabic, with right to left layout for Arabic. English is the default and nothing changes until you pick another one in Settings. The app does not read your OS locale. All three app fonts ship inside the bundle, so nothing is fetched at boot.
• Prerequisites: one Settings page showing which supporting tools (uv, git, Node, MemPalace, each agent CLI) you have, what each is for, and a button that asks Michael to install what is missing.

Most people want this one. Munder Difflin is free and open source. Signed and notarized macOS builds of 0.5.6, plus Windows and Linux, are on the download page. The open source build is on the GitHub releases page. Install it, open it, and the wizard takes you the rest of the way. The install guide walks through every step and every fix. You do not need Node, a toolchain, or this repository.

You do still need at least one agent CLI on your machine. From 0.5.3 a missing CLI shows as a card in the agent's terminal: Install runs the command, you sign in inside the app, and the agent starts. Settings → Prerequisites lists the rest.

Pro adds Capabilities, agent files, Stapler and the new sidebar. As part of the launch it is free for everyone until Saturday 24 October 2026. After that the annual plan is $150 USD, adjusted for purchasing power, as low as $100 a year. Get Pro

Everything below is for contributors and for people who want to run an unreleased build.

• macOS, Windows, or Linux.
• Node.js 18+ and npm.
• A C/C++ toolchain for node-pty's native addon. On macOS, install Xcode Command Line Tools:

  xcode-select --install

• At least one supported agent CLI on your PATH, one of Claude Code (claude, the default), Antigravity (agy), OpenAI Codex (codex), xAI Grok (grok), Kimi Code (kimi), Gemini CLI (gemini), Qwen (qwen), OpenCode (opencode), Crush (crush), pi.dev (pi), GitHub Copilot (copilot), or Cursor (cursor-agent). Most missing CLIs self-heal: the harness runs the installer in the terminal and continues into the new binary.
• Optional: your own API keys and local LLMs in Settings → AI Engines (Ollama / LM Studio / vLLM).
• Optional: the semantic memory index for instant cross-session recall. Markdown memory works without it.

git clone https://github.com/chaitanyagiri/munder-difflin.git
cd munder-difflin
npm install        # postinstall rebuilds node-pty against Electron's ABI
npm run dev        # launches the Electron app with hot reload

On first launch you'll go through the onboarding wizard, then land on the floor. Use Add agent to spawn your first session. The GOD agent seats itself in Michael's office automatically.

npm run build      # production build via electron-vite
npm run preview    # preview the production build
npm run typecheck  # type-check the node (main/preload) and web (renderer) projects

If node-pty fails to load after an Electron upgrade, re-run npm install (the postinstall hook runs electron-rebuild against the current Electron ABI).

Two data planes feed one renderer: a terminal plane that owns the PTYs, the filesystem and git, and an event plane that runs the hive, the hook server and the router. The renderer talks to both only through a typed bridge.

The full diagrams, the module by module project structure, and the design system live in docs/ARCHITECTURE.md. They moved out of this file so it can explain the product rather than the codebase. Also see HIVE.md for the multi-agent design, SPEC.md for the terminal and event plane, and DESIGN.md for the visual system.

Shipped through v0.5.6: Capabilities, Integrations and Teams, agent files with 36 templates, token limits per period, fewer tokens by default with a handoff file across a cleared session, temps that any agent can start and that can answer inbound messages, one Slack bot for every channel it is in, sign in and accounts inside the app, a quieter circuit breaker, local dictation into any app and meetings with both sides of the call, with the model in the installer, the new agent cards in the free build and a new Pro sidebar, a missing CLI you install and sign in to from inside the app, Ask me on every Inbox, more than one floor on one machine, ticket keys and a Tasks tab on every agent, redesigned Settings with inbound webhooks and custom secrets, Opus 5.5 as the default Claude model, one compaction bar for every model size, a Simplified Chinese and Arabic interface with right to left support and self-hosted fonts, twelve agent engines with BYOK keys and local LLMs, voice orchestration, the hive (memory · mailboxes · blackboard · event log), Command Center with kanban and weekday schedules, a built-in Monaco IDE with git rails, integrations registry + secret broker, Slack-spawned workers, shareable hires and the Agent Gallery, observability and the circuit breaker, durable persistence, session resume, multi-window floors, one click updates, a Skills browser, a live Prerequisites check, cost reporting folded from the ledger, semantic memory that works on Apple Silicon, and an updater that installs the build instead of pointing at it. Full history in CHANGELOG.md.

Next up:

• More chat integrations: Telegram and richer chat bridges that pipe a channel into Michael's queue and route replies back out.
• More engines & integration templates: keep growing the engine roster and the integrations registry.
• Fuller avatar coverage: drive the remaining station visits and tool-bubbles entirely from real hook events.
• Durable layout & command history: extend persistence to agent layout and per-session history.

Contributions are welcome. This is pre-release software with a lot of surface area. Start with CONTRIBUTING.md. The short version: fork, npm install && npm run dev, keep npm run typecheck green, and derive any new UI from DESIGN.md tokens. Good first areas: wiring real hook events, the add-agent flow, the config drawer, and cross-platform work.

Questions, bugs, or want to show off your office? Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/SEDzP5ZPk5. Add your Discord handle to a PR and you'll get the employee of the month role when it merges.

Looking for somewhere to start? The good first issue list is kept stocked with small, self contained work that has a clear finish line.

Everyone whose code is in Munder Difflin is listed in CONTRIBUTORS.md. If that is you, it is yours to point at. The list is generated from the pull requests themselves and updates on its own, so you appear without having to ask. It also names the contributions that are in main but that GitHub shows as closed rather than merged, because that was our mistake to record and not theirs to explain.

Official builds send a small set of anonymous usage events (app opened, agent spawned, feature used), never prompts, code, file paths, or agent output. The complete event list, the anonymity guarantees, and the three ways to opt out (Settings toggle, DO_NOT_TRACK, or building from source, forks compile with no key and send nothing) are documented in TELEMETRY.md.

The source code is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE. The MIT grant covers the code only; the bundled pixel art is licensed separately from LimeZu and is carved out in LICENSE-ASSETS. Munder Difflin is an affectionate parody and is not affiliated with NBC's The Office or Dunder Mifflin.

• LimeZu for the Modern Interiors pixel-art tilesets (Complete Version licence).
• shahar061/the-office for the office tileset/map vendoring.
• Pixi.js · xterm.js · node-pty · electron-vite · CodeMirror for the libraries this is built on.
• Remotion for the landing page's animated "how it works" clips (landing-remotion/).
• The Office (US) for Munder Difflin, Inc.