Aixle Flow

The team-level control plane for AI coding agents. Put a card on the board, an agent picks it up in an isolated container, your team sees the run, the cost, and the output — without anyone opening a terminal.

Why Aixle Flow

Cursor and Claude Code are personal superpowers. They run on your laptop, in your terminal, for your task. Once more than one person on a team starts delegating work to agents, the wheels come off:

• Nobody knows what's running, where, or whether it's stuck.
• There's no shared trail of what an agent did or how much it cost.
• Setup is per-developer, so the team uses agents five different ways.

Aixle Flow is the layer above the agent — the Kanban board, the workflow graph, the audit log, the cost meter. The agent stays great at coding; Aixle Flow makes it usable by a team.

It is the only open platform we know of that combines:

• A board with column → workflow bindings (drop a card, trigger a run)
• A DAG workflow engine with retries, approval gates, and parallel steps
• Container-isolated agent execution (Claude Code, Cursor CLI, Codex, Gemini CLI)
• MCP-native tool integration
• Per-session cost tracking in tokens and cents
• Temporal under the hood for durable, long-running runs

Quickstart

Three commands to a working app on http://localhost:4000.

git clone https://github.com/AixleHQ/flow.git && cd flow
cp .env.example .env.development   # fill in OAuth secrets if you want SSO
make setup                          # builds containers, installs deps, seeds DB

Then in two terminals:

make up       # terminal 1 — web, db, redis, traefik, temporal
make worker   # terminal 2 — Temporal worker

Open http://localhost:4000 and sign in.

5-minute setup is on the roadmap. Right now make setup builds agent images which takes longer the first time. See ROADMAP.md for the planned docker compose up single-command flow.

Need more detail? See docs/quickstart.md.

Documentation

Three tiers, each independently navigable:

Tier	For	Where
Quickstart	First-time users, < 5 min	docs/quickstart.md
User Guide	Common workflows & gotchas	docs/user-guide/
Reference	Full API / CLI / config surface	docs/reference/

Roadmap

What's planned and what's in flight — see ROADMAP.md. Issues tagged good first issue are a good place to start contributing.

Tech Stack

• Backend — Ruby on Rails 8, PostgreSQL, Redis, Temporal
• Frontend — React 19, Inertia.js, Mantine 9, Vite, TypeScript
• Agents — Claude Code, Cursor CLI, OpenAI Codex CLI, Gemini CLI (each runs in its own Docker container)
• Protocols — MCP for tools, ActionCable for live updates
• Dev environment — Docker Compose, one Makefile

Inspired by

Aixle Flow stands on the shoulders of the open agent-and-workflow ecosystem. A few projects shaped how we think:

• n8n — workflow automation can be open, code-friendly, and priced per run rather than per step.
• Dify and Langflow — visual, open-source orchestration of LLM agents and pipelines.
• Paperclip — treating a roster of agents like an org, with budgets, governance, and per-agent cost as first-class concerns.
• Cursor — background agents that run in isolation and are triggered by events, not just a human at a keyboard.
• Temporal — durable execution as the right foundation for long-running, retryable agent runs.
• Model Context Protocol — an open standard for giving agents tools.
• The Kanban board — work lives in columns anyone on the team can move.

Where each inspired a category, Aixle Flow's own contribution is to make it board-native and team-first: drop a card, an agent runs in a container, and the whole team sees the run, the trail, and the cost.

Contributing

We welcome PRs, issues, and discussion.

1. Read CONTRIBUTING.md.
2. Pick up a good first issue or open a discussion before starting on something larger.
3. Run make check before opening a PR.

License

Aixle Flow is released under the Apache License 2.0 — a permissive license that lets you use, modify, self-host, and commercially deploy it freely, including in closed-source products, as long as you preserve the license and attribution notices.

See LICENSE for the full terms, NOTICE for attribution, and THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.md for the licenses of bundled dependencies. "Aixle" and "Aixle Flow" are trademarks — see TRADEMARK.md.

Contributions are accepted under the Apache 2.0 license and require both a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) sign-off and a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) — see CONTRIBUTING.md.