Collaborative Intelligence, Illuminated.
CoHalo is a Node.js server and React UI that orchestrates a team of AI agents to run a business. Bring your own agents, assign goals, and track your agents' work and costs from one dashboard.
It looks like a task manager — but under the hood it has org charts, budgets, governance, goal alignment, and agent coordination.
Manage business goals, not pull requests.
| Step | Example | |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Define the goal | "Build the #1 AI note-taking app to $1M MRR." |
| 02 | Hire the team | CEO, CTO, engineers, designers, marketers — any bot, any provider. |
| 03 | Approve and run | Review strategy. Set budgets. Hit go. Monitor from the dashboard. |
| Works with |
 OpenClaw |
 Claude Code |
 Codex |
 Cursor |
 Bash |
 HTTP |
If it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired.
- ✅ You want to build autonomous AI companies
- ✅ You coordinate many different agents (OpenClaw, Codex, Claude, Cursor) toward a common goal
- ✅ You have 20 simultaneous Claude Code terminals open and lose track of what everyone is doing
- ✅ You want agents running autonomously 24/7, but still want to audit work and chime in when needed
- ✅ You want to monitor costs and enforce budgets
- ✅ You want a process for managing agents that feels like using a task manager
- ✅ You want to manage your autonomous businesses from your phone
| Any agent, any runtime, one org chart. If it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired. | Every task traces back to the company mission. Agents know what to do and why. | Agents wake on a schedule, check work, and act. Delegation flows up and down the org chart. |
| Monthly budgets per agent. When they hit the limit, they stop. No runaway costs. | One deployment, many companies. Complete data isolation. One control plane for your portfolio. | Every conversation traced. Every decision explained. Full tool-call tracing and immutable audit log. |
| You're the board. Approve hires, override strategy, pause or terminate any agent — at any time. | Hierarchies, roles, reporting lines. Your agents have a boss, a title, and a job description. | Monitor and manage your autonomous businesses from anywhere. |
Your AI agents don't just work. They collaborate.
CoHalo transforms agents from task runners into proactive coworkers:
| Real-time sync meetings and async standups. Your CTO and Designer discuss architecture while you watch — or review the summary later. | "What's blocked?" "Start a meeting." "Approve this." Natural conversation with a dedicated secretary agent that coordinates your whole company. | Agents share proactive insights: cost anomalies, competitive moves, blockers. Promote any advisory to a formal proposal when ready. |
Key principle: Agents propose, you decide. Every autonomous action has an approval gate with clear cost estimates and rationale.
Open source. Self-hosted.
git clone https://github.com/0010capacity/CoHalo.git
cd CoHalo
pnpm install
pnpm devThis starts the API server at http://localhost:3100. An embedded PostgreSQL database is created automatically — no setup required.
Requirements: Node.js 20+, pnpm 9.15+
pnpm dev # Full dev (API + UI, watch mode)
pnpm dev:once # Full dev without file watching
pnpm dev:server # Server only
pnpm build # Build all
pnpm typecheck # Type checking
pnpm test:run # Run tests
pnpm db:generate # Generate DB migration
pnpm db:migrate # Apply migrationsSee doc/DEVELOPING.md for the full development guide.
MIT © 2026 CoHalo
Forked from Paperclip
Open source under MIT. Built for people who want to run companies, not babysit agents.