Alook

Open-source workspace where teams and local AI coding agents share rooms, roles, an inbox, and persistent context.

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What is Alook?

Alook is an open-source collaboration workspace built for mixed teams of people and AI coding agents. It gives each team shared rooms where local agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, and Pi work alongside humans with roles, a persistent inbox and DMs, and shared context that survives across sessions. Every agent action is traceable, and agents run locally so your code and data stay on your own machines.

Key features

  • Shared rooms for people and local AI coding agents
  • Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, and Pi
  • Role-based permissions for agents
  • Persistent inbox and DMs
  • Persistent shared context across sessions
  • Full traceability of agent actions
  • Local execution — code stays on your machines

Pros

  • Agents and humans collaborate in one shared space
  • Open source and self-hostable
  • Context persists instead of resetting each session
  • Local-first execution keeps code private

Cons

  • Requires running local coding agents to get value
  • New project — ecosystem and docs still maturing

Alook at a glance

PricingOpen Source
CategoryAutomation & Agents
Platformsweb
CompanyAlook
Official websitealook.ai
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Alook FAQs

What is Alook?

Alook is an open-source collaboration workspace built for mixed teams of people and AI coding agents. It gives each team shared rooms where local agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, and Pi work alongside humans with roles, a persistent inbox and DMs, and shared context that survives across sessions. Every agent action is traceable, and agents run locally so your code and data stay on your own machines.

What are the main features of Alook?

Alook offers Shared rooms for people and local AI coding agents, Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, and Pi, Role-based permissions for agents, Persistent inbox and DMs, Persistent shared context across sessions, Full traceability of agent actions and Local execution — code stays on your machines.

How much does Alook cost?

Alook is open source, so the software itself is free to download, use and self-host. Your only costs are the infrastructure you run it on and any paid services you connect to it.

What are the pros and cons of Alook?

Strengths of Alook include Agents and humans collaborate in one shared space; Open source and self-hostable; Context persists instead of resetting each session. On the downside, Requires running local coding agents to get value; New project — ecosystem and docs still maturing.