Alook

Alook takes a simple idea seriously: if AI agents are doing real work on your codebase, they should sit in the same room as the team rather than in each developer's private terminal. It runs as a local-first workspace laid out like Discord — channels, threads, direct messages — except some of the participants are agents such as Claude Code and Codex, each with a persistent identity and memory of the project. That persistence is the part that matters. An agent that remembers previous conversations and prior decisions on a project stops needing the same context pasted in every session, and because the whole workspace runs on your own machine, none of that project history leaves your environment. Teammates can watch an agent work, jump in mid-thread, and hand off tasks the same way they would with a colleague. The honest considerations: running locally means each person needs the setup on their machine, so it fits engineering teams more comfortably than mixed non-technical groups; the value depends heavily on already using agent tooling like Claude Code or Codex; and a chat-shaped interface can get noisy once several agents are active in the same channel. For small technical teams that want shared, private, memory-backed agent collaboration instead of isolated terminal sessions, it is a genuinely different take on the problem.