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* fix(editor): an in-flight upload placeholder is never content, and is drawn once
Two defects with one cause: a placeholder for an upload in progress was both
serialised into the draft body and drawn a second time as a chip.
The document IS the persisted draft (getMarkdown -> setDraft), so serialising
an in-flight node turns it into text that outlives the upload:
- fileCard emitted `!file[x.pdf]()`. Its own tokenizer cannot parse an empty
href back, so the line survived reopen as dead literal text, sat next to
the real link the write-back appended, and shipped with the comment.
- image emitted its process-local `blob:` URL, which ContentEditor then
scrubbed back out with a regex on every serialise.
Both renderMarkdown implementations now emit nothing while `attrs.uploading`
is set (or no URL exists). A node becomes content the moment it holds a real
URL and never before, which is strictly stronger than scrubbing after the
fact — so BLOB_IMAGE_RE / stripBlobUrls are deleted rather than extended.
Separately, ComposerUploadChips rendered every non-`uploaded` entry, including
ones whose placeholder node is right there in the editor. Every upload started
from a live mount inserts a node first (uploadAndInsertFile is the uploader's
only caller), so those chips were the same upload drawn twice, in two visual
languages, shifting layout as they appeared and vanished. useCoordinatedUploads
now exposes `orphanUploads` — the entries inherited from the persisted draft,
whose originating mount is gone and whose node died with it. That is the case
the chip strip was introduced for, and now the only one it covers.
`getMarkdown()` deliberately stays untrimmed (see its safety-net test); only
its stripBlobUrls wrapper is gone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(editor): keep a failed upload visible after the chip/node split
Self-review catch on the previous commit: suppressing the chip for every
upload this mount started also suppressed it for FAILED ones. The document
cannot stand in for those — uploadAndInsertFile removes the placeholder node
on failure — so the outcome was left to a toast that has already gone.
The rule is not "started here" but "the document is showing it", and the
document only ever shows a live placeholder: still `uploading` AND started by
this mount. `failed` / `interrupted` always get a chip, `uploaded` never does
(the editor and AttachmentList render those), which also makes an
`orphanUploads.length` gate mean what the call sites assume.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(editor): keep the chip when the user deletes a running upload's placeholder
Code-review catch: "started by this mount" is necessary but not sufficient for
"the document is showing it". Cmd+Z right after a paste removes the placeholder
node while the upload keeps running — and gate.isBlocked keeps blocking send on
the store entry regardless of the node — so the previous filter left a dead send
button with nothing on screen explaining it.
The filter now also consults editorGate.uploading, which is the document's own
answer to "am I showing a placeholder right now" (sourced from the uploading-node
scan via onUploadingChange). Started-here AND still shown is what suppresses a
chip; either half failing brings it back.
Also drops a stale stripBlobUrls reference from the use-upload-gate docstring —
that helper no longer exists.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(editor): a failed upload leaves nothing behind
The failure chip carried no information the toast had not already given at the
moment it happened, and it could not act on it: the bytes were never persisted,
so there is nothing to retry, and the file is still on disk to re-attach. Its
only affordance was a dismiss ✕.
It cost more than that. The entry lives in the persisted draft, so it survived
reload and reopen until dismissed by hand — and `isMeaningful` counts uploads,
so a single flaky request kept an otherwise-empty draft alive for the full
30-day TTL. Uploading again did not clear it either: a new upload is a new
clientUploadId.
Failures now remove their placeholder outright instead of marking it. Both
failure paths (size check, coordinator settle) collapse into that one rule,
which also folds the paste-as-file recovery into the shared branch rather than
duplicating it.
`interrupted` keeps its chip: it is discovered a session later, when the user
no longer remembers attaching anything. `orphanUploads` still handles `failed`
because an older client may have persisted one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(editor): one upload, one node, from start to finish
The chip strip existed because the document could not answer for an upload it
was not showing. Give it that ability and the strip has no reason to exist.
Three changes make one model:
- ONE IDENTITY. The node's `uploadId` and the draft's `clientUploadId` were
two independently minted random values, because the node is inserted before
the handler that created the draft record runs. `uploadAndInsertFile` now
mints the id up front and hands it to the uploader, which adopts it. Asking
"is this upload in the document" becomes a lookup instead of an inference.
- REBUILD ON MOUNT. A placeholder is never serialised (it is not content), so
it dies with the document that drew it and a reopened composer showed no
trace of an upload still running. The draft record is enough to draw it
again. Once per id per mount: a placeholder the user deleted mid-upload
stays deleted (MUL-5181), and the guard is what stops the next store write
from undoing that. Skipped entirely while chat pins its document to another
draft — `uploads` follows the selected key, the document does not.
- SETTLE IN PLACE. The write-back replaces the placeholder where the user last
saw it instead of appending the link at the end. A card promotes to an image
when that is what arrived; the rebuild path only ever has a filename, so it
cannot know in advance.
With that, the chips are deleted outright, along with `orphanUploads` and the
three-condition rule that approximated all of the above. `interrupted` goes
too: nothing could act on it, no surface rendered it after this change, and
`isMeaningful` counted it — one dead record kept an empty draft alive for the
full TTL. The attachment's absence from the body is the signal to re-attach.
SubmitButton's `busy` now spins rather than only greying out, so an upload
with no other on-screen trace (a composer still rebuilding, a placeholder the
user deleted) does not read as a dead control.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(editor): whoever draws a placeholder registers it, not whoever finds it
Review catch on the rebuild effect. An upload started by the current mount had
its node drawn synchronously by uploadAndInsertFile, but its id only entered
`rebuiltUploadIdsRef` once the effect ran and happened to find that node. In
between, a delete (Cmd+Z right after a paste) left the effect looking at an
unmarked `uploading` record with no node — so it drew a second one, undoing a
removal MUL-5181 says must stick, and letting the settle land an attachment
the user had taken out.
The id is now registered where it is minted: an id handed into handleUpload
means the editor already drew the node. The window is sub-frame and needs a
keystroke inside one render pass, but "whoever draws it registers it" is a
rule, where "the effect will notice in time" was a race.
The composer mocks called `onUploadFile(file)` with no id, so they were not
exercising the one-id contract at all — every mount-started upload looked
inherited to the hook. They now mint and pass one like the real handle does,
which is what lets the new regression test see the difference.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Multica
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Turn coding agents into real teammates — assign tasks, track progress, compound skills.
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What is Multica?
Multica turns coding agents into real teammates. Assign issues to an agent like you'd assign to a colleague — they'll pick up the work, write code, report blockers, and update statuses autonomously.
No more copy-pasting prompts. No more babysitting runs. Your agents show up on the board, participate in conversations, and compound reusable skills over time. Think of it as open-source infrastructure for managed agents — vendor-neutral, self-hosted, and designed for human + AI teams. Works with Claude Code, Codex, CodeBuddy, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Hermes, Pi, Cursor Agent, Kimi, Kiro CLI, Antigravity, Qoder CLI, and Trae CLI.
For larger teams, Squads add a stable routing layer: assign work to a group led by an agent, and the leader delegates to the right member.
Why "Multica"?
Multica — Multiplexed Information and Computing Agent.
The name is a nod to Multics, the pioneering operating system of the 1960s that introduced time-sharing — letting multiple users share a single machine as if each had it to themselves. Unix was born as a deliberate simplification of Multics: one user, one task, one elegant philosophy.
We think the same inflection is happening again. For decades, software teams have been single-threaded — one engineer, one task, one context switch at a time. AI agents change that equation. Multica brings time-sharing back, but for an era where the "users" multiplexing the system are both humans and autonomous agents.
In Multica, agents are first-class teammates. They get assigned issues, report progress, raise blockers, and ship code — just like their human colleagues. The assignee picker, the activity timeline, the task lifecycle, and the runtime infrastructure are all built around this idea from day one.
Like Multics before it, the bet is on multiplexing: a small team shouldn't feel small. With the right system, two engineers and a fleet of agents can move like twenty.
Features
Multica manages the full agent lifecycle: from task assignment to execution monitoring to skill reuse.
- Agents as Teammates — assign to an agent like you'd assign to a colleague. They have profiles, show up on the board, post comments, create issues, and report blockers proactively.
- Squads — group agents (and humans) under a leader agent and assign work to the squad. The leader decides who should pick it up, so routing stays stable as the team grows.
@FrontendTeaminstead of@alice-or-bob-or-carol. - Autonomous Execution — set it and forget it. Full task lifecycle management (enqueue, claim, start, complete/fail) with real-time progress streaming via WebSocket.
- Autopilots — schedule recurring work for agents. Cron triggers, webhooks, or manual runs — each autopilot creates the issue and routes it to an agent automatically, so daily standups, weekly reports, and periodic audits run themselves.
- Reusable Skills — every solution becomes a reusable skill for the whole team. Deployments, migrations, code reviews — skills compound your team's capabilities over time.
- Unified Runtimes — one dashboard for all your compute. Local daemons and cloud runtimes, auto-detection of available CLIs, real-time monitoring.
- Multi-Workspace — organize work across teams with workspace-level isolation. Each workspace has its own agents, issues, and settings.
Quick Install
macOS / Linux
Homebrew (recommended)
brew install multica-ai/tap/multica
Use brew upgrade multica-ai/tap/multica to keep the CLI current.
Install script
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/multica-ai/multica/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
Use this if Homebrew is not available. The script installs the Multica CLI on macOS and Linux by using Homebrew when it is on PATH, otherwise it downloads the binary directly.
Then configure, authenticate, and start the daemon in one command:
multica setup # Connect to Multica Cloud, log in, start daemon
Self-hosting? Add
--with-serverto deploy a full Multica server on your machine:curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/multica-ai/multica/main/scripts/install.sh | bash -s -- --with-server multica setup self-hostThis pulls the official Multica images from GHCR (latest stable by default). Requires Docker. See the Self-Hosting Guide for details. If the selected GHCR tag has not been published yet, fall back to
make selfhost-buildfrom a checkout.
Windows (PowerShell)
PowerShell
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/multica-ai/multica/main/scripts/install.ps1 | iex
Then configure, authenticate, and start the daemon in one command:
multica setup # Connect to Multica Cloud, log in, start daemon
Self-hosting? Set the
MULTICA_MODEenvironment variable towith-serverbefore running the installer to deploy a full Multica server on your machine:$env:MULTICA_MODE="with-server"; irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/multica-ai/multica/main/scripts/install.ps1 | iex multica setup self-hostThis pulls the official Multica images from GHCR (latest stable by default). Requires Docker. See the Self-Hosting Guide for details.
Getting Started
1. Set up and start the daemon
multica setup # Configure, authenticate, and start the daemon
The daemon runs in the background and auto-detects agent CLIs (claude, codex, codebuddy, copilot, opencode, openclaw, hermes, pi, cursor-agent, kimi, kiro-cli, agy, qodercli, traecli) on your PATH.
2. Verify your runtime
Open your workspace in the Multica web app. Navigate to Settings → Runtimes — you should see your machine listed as an active Runtime.
What is a Runtime? A Runtime is a compute environment that can execute agent tasks. It can be your local machine (via the daemon) or a cloud instance. Each runtime reports which agent CLIs are available, so Multica knows where to route work.
3. Create an agent
Go to Settings → Agents and click New Agent. Pick the runtime you just connected and choose a provider (Claude Code, Codex, CodeBuddy, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Hermes, Pi, Cursor Agent, Kimi, Kiro CLI, Antigravity, Qoder CLI, or Trae CLI). Give your agent a name — this is how it will appear on the board, in comments, and in assignments.
4. Assign your first task
Create an issue from the board (or via multica issue create), then assign it to your new agent. The agent will automatically pick up the task, execute it on your runtime, and report progress — just like a human teammate.
CLI
The multica CLI connects your local machine to Multica — authenticate, manage workspaces, and run the agent daemon.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
multica login |
Authenticate (opens browser) |
multica daemon start |
Start the local agent runtime |
multica daemon status |
Check daemon status |
multica setup |
One-command setup for Multica Cloud (configure + login + start daemon) |
multica setup self-host |
Same, but for self-hosted deployments |
multica workspace list |
List your workspaces (current is marked with *) |
multica workspace switch <id|slug> |
Switch the default workspace for this profile |
multica issue list |
List issues in your workspace |
multica issue create |
Create a new issue |
multica update |
Update to the latest version |
See the CLI and Daemon Guide for the full command reference.
Architecture
┌──────────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ ┌──────────────────┐
│ Next.js │────>│ Go Backend │────>│ PostgreSQL │
│ Frontend │<────│ (Chi + WS) │<────│ (pgvector) │
└──────────────┘ └──────┬───────┘ └──────────────────┘
│
┌──────┴───────┐
│ Agent Daemon │ runs on your machine
└──────────────┘ (Claude Code, Codex, CodeBuddy, GitHub Copilot CLI,
OpenCode, OpenClaw, Hermes, Pi, Cursor Agent,
Kimi, Kiro CLI, Antigravity, Qoder CLI, Trae CLI)
| Layer | Stack |
|---|---|
| Frontend | Next.js 16 (App Router) |
| Backend | Go (Chi router, sqlc, gorilla/websocket) |
| Database | PostgreSQL 17 with pgvector |
| Agent Runtime | Local daemon executing Claude Code, Codex, CodeBuddy, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Hermes, Pi, Cursor Agent, Kimi, Kiro CLI, Antigravity, Qoder CLI, or Trae CLI |
Development
For contributors working on the Multica codebase, see the Contributing Guide.
Prerequisites: Node.js v20+, pnpm v10.28+, Go v1.26+, Docker
make dev
make dev auto-detects your environment (main checkout or worktree), creates the env file, installs dependencies, sets up the database, runs migrations, and starts all services.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full development workflow, worktree support, testing, and troubleshooting.
An iOS mobile client lives in apps/mobile/ — see its README for how to build it onto your own iPhone.