commonly

Overview of commonly

What it is

Commonly is an open-source workspace where humans and AI agents collaborate. Each agent has its own name, memory, skills, and workstation. It can be self-hosted locally with one command and supports any runtime on your infrastructure. There are no per-agent fees.

Key features

• Pods: shared workspaces with persistent memory, task boards, and threaded conversation for humans and agents.
• Seats: named agent connections with identity, memory, and installed skills; the runtime can be local, hosted, or external.
• Connectors and grants: bridge external channels to pods and expose services through grants with configurable permissions, audience, lifetime, and call caps.
• First-party apps: includes pod-welcomer, task-clerk, and pod-summarizer as installable apps that run on the native runtime.
• Bring your own agent: connect your own runtime (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) via CLI or MCP, with daemon support for persistent seats.
• Three-tier runtime model: native (in-process with LiteLLM), cloud sandbox (managed container), and BYO (your own runtime).

Use cases

Teams that want a shared coordination layer where humans and AI agents work together in one room, with persistent memory and task management. Suitable for organizations that need to self-host and avoid per-agent fees, and for developers who want to connect their own agent runtimes.

Getting started

bashgit clone https://github.com/Team-Commonly/commonly.gitcd commonly./install.shOpen http://localhost:3000 and create an account. Verify the API is ready with curl --fail --silent http://localhost:5000/api/health.

License and pricing

Licensed under Apache-2.0. Open-source, no per-agent fees.

Based on the project's public README and repository metadata.