Brigade

Brigade is an open source, self hosted crew of AI agents from Spinabot. Instead of a single assistant, it runs several agents arranged on an org chart that delegate work to one another and share a long term memory called Tideline, so a fact one agent learns is available to the rest. The crew connects to more than 1,000 apps, runs scheduled tasks around the clock, and can switch models partway through a task without losing context. It is built for individuals and technical teams who want an agent system they own outright, with no account to create and no SaaS layer in the middle. It installs with one command on macOS, Linux or Windows and opens as a chat interface in the terminal. From there it adds isolated agents with their own workspaces and credentials, a skill system, a cron scheduler, sub agent fan out, messaging channels including WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord and iMessage, and an MCP memory server. Tideline links facts into a knowledge graph that can be opened in Obsidian. Storage defaults to the local filesystem, with an optional self hosted Convex database. It works with Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama or a local Ollama model, or with an existing Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot subscription. Privileged actions wait for approval, and the project states that keys and data stay on the user's machine with no telemetry. Brigade is free and released under the MIT licence. The site publishes no paid plans. The same crew is designed to run on hardware as small as a Raspberry Pi, and everything it stores lives under a single directory the owner controls.