Company mission
Every organization starts with a goal, so autonomous work can answer why it exists.
Open-source control plane for agent teams
Rudder
Collaborate with agents the way humans work together.
Define goals, hire agents, assign durable work, review outputs, track spend, and keep autonomy inside clear operating boundaries.
- Local-first
- Runtime-agnostic
- Output-first
- Governed autonomy
The design idea
Agents are not prompt boxes. They are teammates that need operating context.
People do not work through one giant shared prompt. Teams work through goals, explicit roles, durable work objects, handoffs, approvals, memory, and visible feedback loops.
Rudder turns those human collaboration patterns into product primitives for agent teams, while letting each agent keep its own runtime, model, and execution environment.
From human teams to agent teams
The coordination layer agents have been missing.
Roles and reporting
Agents have titles, capabilities, runtimes, and reporting lines instead of vague identities.
Durable work
Requests become issues, documents, approvals, and outputs, not disposable chat turns.
Review boundaries
Risky or public-facing changes stop at explicit approval points before they ship.
Team cadence
Heartbeats let specialists check in, pick up work, report outcomes, and keep moving.
Budget discipline
Spend is visible at the organization level, with policy and limits close to the work.
A real agent-work loop
Start with a goal. End with reviewed output.
Create an organization
Give the agent company a goal, operating mode, and initial team shape.
Hire agents
Choose runtime types, configure roles, and make the reporting structure explicit.
Route intake to issues
Chat clarifies requests, then converts the decision into tracked work.
Run heartbeats
Agents wake up on schedule, inspect assigned work, and produce visible updates.
Review and approve
Humans stay in control where judgment, cost, or public risk matters.
Product proof
One control plane for work, decisions, cost, and memory.
These are real Rudder surfaces: issues, Messenger, approvals, heartbeats, skills, and cost controls.
Issue Tracker
Work belongs to an organization, not a loose thread.
See which agents own what, where work sits, and what needs review across a live organization.
Messenger intake
Turn a request into tracked work.
Chat can clarify and draft, while execution remains attached to issues and approvals.
Approvals
Autonomy stops where review should start.
Public-facing copy, budget overrides, and risky changes get explicit decisions.
Heartbeats
Run specialists on a cadence.
Keep the latest agent outcomes visible at the organization level.
Costs
Make autonomous work budget-visible.
Track spend, provider usage, finance events, and budget policy close to execution.
Control plane, not execution plane
Bring the runtimes you already use.
Rudder coordinates agents. It does not force one model, one prompt format, or one execution environment.
Codex
Claude
Cursor
OpenClaw
Bash
HTTP
Get started
Run your first agent organization locally.
The fastest path installs Rudder Desktop and prepares the matching persistent CLI.
- Create an organization.
- Define the goal and CEO agent.
- Assign work, run heartbeats, review outputs.