Local multi-bot office. You own the channels and the people. @coder wakes that person; everyone else waits. They work at their desk (tools + thinking), then give an account in the channel. If they need you, they stop. They may DM. You can read every DM.
Loopback only. Not a Discord.js bot, not Electron, not a cloud VM.
Vibecoded with Grok 4.6.
| Installer | Crew_0.12.9_x64-setup.exe |
| MSI | Crew_0.12.9_x64_en-US.msi |
| Portable zip | Crew-0.12.9-windows-portable.zip |
All files: github.com/ArdaDDemir/crew/releases/tag/v0.12.9
WebView2 is Windows 11 / current Edge. Open a project folder. Settings → Providers: OpenRouter key (or another OpenAI-compatible base_url).
| Channels + People + Direct | Discord-like rail. @ is the scheduler. Each room has About / Rules / Files. |
| 2.5D floor | Glass room, PCs, walk, doors, furniture, looks. Click a person to DM. |
| Crew.exe | Tauri + WebView2 window. Same office as bun run ui. |
| Split panes | Drag a chat to the right. Max two in-page panes. |
| Jobs | Settings → Title / Compact / Vision / Read (not extra People). |
| Providers | OpenRouter, plus optional Claude / Codex / Grok / OpenCode CLI spawn. Reasoning effort per person (Default to Max). |
| Auto-update | GitHub Releases feed, on by default. Crew.exe updates itself silently — download is signature-verified before install. |
| Composer | One button: Send becomes Stop while a turn runs; typing during a run queues the draft and it auto-sends after. |
| MCP | Stdio or HTTP servers. Tools, resources, prompts on OpenRouter turns. |
| Browser tools | Isolated Playwright profile under .crew/browser/. Not your mouse. |
| Discord | Optional adapter (apps/discord). Core has no Discord. |
| Invites | Owner mints a token. Guest may chat; cannot edit the office. |
Default permission is auto-accept (workspace file writes + workspace shell). mcp_* and browser_* ask. .env and ~/.ssh are always denied.
- Download Crew_0.12.9_x64-setup.exe from the table above.
- Install and launch Crew. Pick a project folder (Crew writes
.crew/there). - Settings → Providers → paste your API key.
Portable: unzip so Crew.exe, crew-server.exe, and public/ sit together.
Wiki: Home · Install · Office · Discord · GitHub wiki
Bun 1.4+. Crew.exe from source also needs Rust 1.77+.
git clone https://github.com/ArdaDDemir/crew.git
cd crew
bun install
bun test
$env:OPENROUTER_API_KEY="sk-or-..."
bun run crew -- config set key $env:OPENROUTER_API_KEY
bun run uiOffice: http://127.0.0.1:7734. Window: bun run desktop. Installers: bun run desktop:build → dist/. Hard-refresh (Ctrl+F5) after UI pulls.
CLI crew is tests and scripts on the same engine, not a TUI product.
bun run crew -- bot create lead --name Lead
bun run crew -- bot create coder --name Coder
bun run crew -- channel create landing --bots lead,coder --lead leadcrew serve is the same loopback office (127.0.0.1 only). Not 0.0.0.0.
Agents start at AGENTS.md. Humans: wiki first.
| Map | docs/README.md |
| Decisions | docs/adr/ (0001–0060) |
| Now / gaps | docs/todos/now.md |
| Changelog | CHANGELOG.md |
| Contributing | CONTRIBUTING.md |
Stack: TypeScript + Bun. Hexagonal core (packages/core has no fetch/UI). Logs: .crew/logs/*.jsonl (append-only). License: MIT.
Crew is not a fork. We looked at these products and copied specific patterns. Links, then what we took, then what we left.
- Product: x.ai/bot
- Launch: Introducing Grok Bot
Grok Bot is the office shape: named teammates, group channels, @ to wake, unmentioned people wait, they work then come back with an account, they stop when they need a human, they DM each other, skills are how a person knows a job.
Crew is that office on your machine. Channels and people live in .crew/. The brain is OpenRouter (or a harness CLI you already have). Not their cloud computer, not their always-on VM, not their routines catalog.
- Repo: github.com/pingdotgg/t3code (MIT)
- Site: t3.codes
T3 Code is the control-surface shape: four permission modes (supervised / auto-accept / auto / full-access), Settings → Providers cards, one implementation picker, optional spawn of Claude / Codex / Grok / OpenCode CLIs.
Crew copied those labels and the Settings/picker idea. Window is Tauri 2 + WebView2, not Electron. MCP is the integration; T3’s plugin marketplace stays out. Crew is the engine, not a wrapper that only drives foreign CLIs.
Vibecoded with Grok 4.6.
Detail and remaining work: docs/todos/now.md.
Public bind (0.0.0.0), live desktop mouse, Electron, signed auto-install, macOS/Linux bundles, T3 plugin marketplace. Isolated browser tools and the Discord adapter are in. Parked notes: docs/todos/now.md.