Acryl

ACRYL, short for Agent Context Relay Yielding Lifecycles, is an agentic development environment and runtime that treats coding agents as interchangeable workers. The workspace, which ACRYL calls a room, owns the project context, decisions and history, so a developer can switch between Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini, Pi and other agents mid project without losing continuity when one hits a rate limit or gives a weak answer. It is built for developers who run several coding agents and want a single durable home for the work. It offers a roster of 33 built in agent definitions plus custom agents, an attention queue that flags when an agent needs input, and structured handoff artifacts between agents. The desktop app provides a development canvas of tiles for chats, terminals, editors, diffs, kanban notes and an embedded browser alongside git worktrees. The same runtime is available as a terminal interface installed from npm and as a local web surface. Everything is a plugin: tools, skills, adapters and workflows are packages, discoverable through a package portal. An in app agent can operate ACRYL itself, with each action approved, logged and stoppable, and doctor and repair commands help recover a broken install. ACRYL is open source on GitHub and installs free from npm. No paid plan or pricing is published. It is built on Cordis and continues the DeepSeek Harness ecosystem inside a desktop host, installing those packages through their original commands and keeping their source attribution visible.