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Munder Difflin — Local multi-agent harness for Claude Code

The why

Yes, it's fun to watch.<br>It's also genuinely useful.

Beyond the joy of watching a floor of agents build your thing and chat around,<br>four reasons a local hive does more than a lone terminal ever could.

⚖️

Do more with less

A GOD orchestrator on a lean model — say Sonnet 4.6 — routes work to specialists running heavier ones like Opus 4.8. The right capability on the right task, not one model paying for everything.

🖥️

It's your harness

The harness lives on your computer. You decide exactly what each agent does, which tools it gets, and how far it can go — full control, nothing in someone else's cloud.

🧠

Memory, built in

MemPalace is wired into every agent and the shared hive mind — the best-performing memory layer we know of. Nothing the office learns ever gets learned twice.

🚀

High-agency outcomes

Agents run autonomously for hours, even days — reiterating on an ambitious project until it's actually done, not just attempted.

📋

Task board, built in

A full dependency-aware kanban lives inside the Command Center — assign tasks to agents, track status across todo/doing/blocked/done, and wire dependencies so nothing starts before its upstream is ready.

Missions on a schedule

Set recurring missions — "triage new issues every morning", "summarise the week every Friday" — and the harness dispatches them automatically. Set it once, never think about it again.

🔭

Real spend visibility

The Activity tab reads your actual Claude Code transcript files and shows real token counts and estimated dollar cost per agent — not proxies. Set a budget, know when you're close.

🔔

Stay in the loop, hands-off

Native desktop notifications fire when an agent finishes a task or needs your input. CI failures, GitHub issues, and human-approval requests surface in the same Command Center without you polling.

The how

One message in. A floor that ships for days.

You talk to a single GOD orchestrator. It routes your request to a hive of<br>role-based agents that run in parallel — real terminals, one shared memory — on an office floor<br>you can watch. Then they keep going, autonomously, for hours or days.

munder-difflin · how it works<br>the full loop

THE OFFICE FLOOR

GOD -->

agents -->

shared memory -->

back up to GOD -->

YOU<br>you talk to it

GOD orchestrator<br>reads · plans · routes

routes the work

research

build

review

MemPalace<br>shared long-term memory

⟳ autonomous · hours → days

STEP 01

You talk to GOD

Describe the goal to one GOD orchestrator in plain language — like briefing a lead, not wiring a pipeline.

one chat

STEP 02

It routes the work

GOD plans the job and hands each piece to the right role agent — research, build, review, test.

orchestratorhive mind

STEP 03

Agents run in parallel

Each is a real Claude Code terminal in its own pseudo-tty, all working at once — sharing one long-term memory.

node-ptyxterm.jsMemPalace

STEP 04

You watch the floor

Every agent is an avatar on a live office floor. Open any desk to read its terminal, files or git — or type back in.

Pixi.js floorlive terminals

STEP 05

It ships for days

The hive keeps iterating on its own — escalating only spend, scope or destructive ops to you for a yes/no.

autonomoushuman-in-the-loop

Powered by Claude Code

One model. Every function a company needs.

Claude Code isn't a coding tool that happens to be smart — it's one of the most<br>capable reasoning agents ever built. Munder Difflin interfaces deeply with it and puts that<br>capability to work across every function your business runs on.

💻<br>Engineering<br>code · review · test · ship

📣<br>Marketing<br>campaigns · copy · SEO content

🎯<br>Sales<br>lead research · outreach · follow-ups

📊<br>Analysis<br>reports · data · competitive intel

📝<br>Product<br>specs · roadmaps · release notes

🔍<br>Research<br>markets · users · literature

✍️<br>Writing<br>docs · blogs · proposals

⚙️<br>Operations<br>workflows · triage · monitoring

🔌 Plugs into every Claude Code setup

Every agent is a real Claude Code session — your subscription, your MCP servers, your skills,<br>your hooks, your permission model. Munder Difflin gives each one a desk, a mailbox, and a shared<br>memory. Nothing is reinvented.

🧠 Runs your whole company, not just your codebase

Spawn a sales agent to research leads while an engineering agent ships the feature, a marketing<br>agent drafts the launch post, and a product agent writes the release notes. One orchestrator.<br>One office. Every function, in parallel.

📡 Remote-control the whole office

Run /remote-control on your GOD agent and reach the entire floor from anywhere —<br>check in, redirect work, clear approvals — all through the one agent that runs everything else.

you › /remote-control

→ GOD online · 4 agents · 1 awaiting approval

→ "approve the deploy, pause agent.research"

✓ done — from your phone.

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