Agora v0.1.0

First public release.

Runtime

• One Go daemon that gives AI agents a real Linux desktop: one Xvfb and one Chromium per workspace, shared by every agent in it. Agora is its own minimal EWMH window manager.
• Workspaces with a lifecycle (created → active → idle → frozen → suspended → destroyed), copy-on-write profile forks, checkpoints, TTLs and budgets (memory, CPU, cursors, tabs). An unused workspace costs nothing.
• Cursors: agents with their own token, permissions that can only narrow when delegated, depth and child limits, messaging, progress reports, wait, pause, cascading cancel, and automatic release of seats, locks and tabs.
• Truly concurrent input: each cursor gets its own MPX pointer and keyboard on demand; in Chromium, input goes per tab over CDP. Surface locks and human takeover with priority.
• Hybrid control: a compact semantic snapshot with refs ([e3] button "Sign in"), clicks by ref or coordinates, fill, select, upload, downloads, dialogs, HTML5 drag, eval, device emulation and an embedded UI audit; pixel control for any X11 app.
• CAPTCHA and login handoff: challenges are detected, the cursor moves to needs_human, a person takes control from the viewer and hands it back, and the agent continues on the same tab and session.
• Freeze (cgroup freezer or SIGSTOP), suspend (checkpoint and graceful browser close) and resume with parallel tab restore to their owners.
• Shared workspace board with claims, so parallel subagents do not duplicate work.
• Optional sandboxed workspaces (config.sandbox: true) for untrusted workloads: read-only system, private home, no view of other workspaces.
• Browsers and apps run as the unprivileged agora user with Chrome's sandbox enabled; Chromium is driven over --remote-debugging-pipe with no TCP port. The daemon refuses to listen outside loopback.

Streaming

• VA-API H.264 encoding on the GPU when a device is available (libva loaded at runtime), with automatic fallback to x264.
• Damage-driven H.264 (x264) over WebRTC (Pion) or WebSocket + WebCodecs, encoded once and fanned out to every viewer; damage-driven JPEG for light clients, shared per display and croppable to a cursor's window.
• Adaptive frame rate: 30 fps while a human interacts, 15 fps while watching, 8 fps in observation mode. Nothing is captured or encoded without viewers.

Integrations

• HTTP API and agora api client.
• MCP server (agora mcp) with 50 tools, permission-based tool profiles and incremental observations after each action.
• Agent launcher for Claude Code, Codex or any command, with a lean Claude Code profile (initial context per subagent down from 66.7k to 7.5k tokens) and per-cursor usage (tokens, turns, cost, duration).
• Git worktrees with a port range per subagent.
• Embedded React dashboard and viewer (agora open prints a viewer link with a short-lived token).
• Paseo plugin: live desktop panel, live preview cards and an agent wall, screenshot cards in the chat, and an Agora cursor and MCP server for every Paseo agent.
• agora version prints the version, commit and build date injected at build time.

Tooling

• agora-bench, a reproducible benchmark against Xvfb + x11vnc + noVNC + Chrome, a streaming latency suite, a soak test with leak detection, and an agent token benchmark.
• scripts/install.sh and scripts/uninstall.sh for Ubuntu and Debian (amd64 and arm64).
• CI (vet, gofmt, unit and e2e tests, dashboard build, plugin typecheck) and tagged releases with checksummed binaries.