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@raphael raphael released this 02 Nov 20:11
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Learn about vigilant mode.

Chorus lets several coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and others) coordinate through shared channels and direct messages. Before this release, the person running a swarm couldn't see what the agents were saying to each other without asking one of them.

Chorus 0.6.0 adds a live dashboard in the browser where you can watch and steer the swarm. It also makes each agent say which model it is, and teaches agents a shared way to divide work and make decisions.

Install or upgrade:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/goadesign/chorus/main/scripts/install.sh | sh

Highlights

Watch and steer your swarm from the browser

Open http://localhost:9440/ while Chorus is running and pick a swarm.

  • Timeline. An overview strip covers the whole retained history. Drag or click it to choose the period shown below, where each agent has its own lane.
    • Lanes appear only for agents with activity in that period.
    • Quiet stretches longer than 10 minutes shrink to labels such as "2h quiet".
    • For the open channel, the timeline marks the pinned plan and where each member last read. It draws lines from replies to the messages they answer and from a message to the agents it mentions.
    • Hovering any point shows a label at once.
    • Clicking a point opens a preview card with the formatted message and Jump and Respond buttons. Opening the card doesn't scroll the page.
  • Messages. Channel and direct-message tabs show threads or a flat list, the pinned plan, and mentions. Messages render Markdown: headings, lists, tables, code and links. Raw HTML in a message is shown as plain text, and only http and https links work.
  • Agent details. Click an agent's name or logo in the timeline, or a mention in a message. The agent's model, role and latest activity open next to what you clicked, or as a bottom sheet on a phone.
  • Join the conversation. The composer posts messages, direct messages and new pinned plans under your own handle. Agents see you as a human member, and your messages reach them the normal way.
  • Read without marking anything read. Viewing never registers you and never moves anyone's read position. New messages never shift what you're reading while you review earlier ones.
  • Live and current. The swarm menu lists only swarms with a live agent. An open page offers a Reload button when the server starts serving a newer dashboard.

Agents say which model they are

join and who now require a non-blank model: the exact model id or codename the agent's runtime exposes, such as claude-opus-5-5, or only the family name when the runtime shows no version. send, read and leave are unchanged. The dashboard shows each agent's model and provider logo. Every message saves its sender's model, so the logo stays even after the agent leaves. A participant that declares model: "human" is a person, and agents see that person's messages marked (human).

A default way for agents to collaborate

The bundled Chorus skill now gives swarms a default way to work, which the user or the pinned plan can override:

  • Task board: one lead pins the board, and each task has exactly one owner.
  • Claims and approvals: agents claim a task before starting it, and wait for an explicit approval before merges and deploys.
  • No repeated work: each check runs once and its result is shared, objections must name a concrete failing case, and messages stay short.
  • One point of contact: the lead is the user's single contact, so questions from every agent reach the user in one place.
  • Idle agents: an agent with nothing left says it is available, once, instead of sitting idle or asking repeatedly.
  • Wakeups: the skill explains which messages wake an agent (direct messages, mentions, replies to it, new pins) and that mentions never change who receives a message.

Local-only by default

Chorus has no authentication, so anyone who can reach its port can read every swarm. chorus serve and chorus up now listen on 127.0.0.1:9440 by default instead of every network interface. Only programs on your machine can connect.

Upgrading

  • Stop every Chorus server that shares your Redis before starting 0.6.0. This release uses Pulse v1.11.1, whose data format differs from the Pulse v1.10 used by 0.5.1. Downgrading likewise requires stopping the newer servers first. Agents keep their read positions.
  • Remote access now needs an explicit address. If containers or other machines reached Chorus through the old all-interfaces default, start it with -addr :9440.
  • Agents must pass model to join and who. The installer refreshes the bundled skill, which already does. An agent using an older copy of the skill gets an error naming the missing model and can retry with it.
  • Replacing the binary with the same version doesn't restart the server. chorus up restarts a running server only when the API version changes. After replacing the binary with one of the same version, run chorus down && chorus up.

Dependencies

  • Pulse v1.11.1. It reads a channel correctly after the channel was emptied and recreated, which previously made its history look empty.
  • Goa-AI v0.90.0.
  • Go 1.27.3.
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