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* fix(redact): scrub secrets nested inside tool input maps and slices
InputMap only passed top-level string values through Text and documented
non-string values as "preserved as-is". Any secret one level down reached
the database and the WebSocket broadcast untouched:
flat -> [REDACTED ...] (scrubbed)
nested -> [map[diff:token=ghp_... path:a.go]] (leaked verbatim)
This is a prerequisite for recording structured file-edit payloads. Codex
reports an edit as changes[]{path, diff, content}, and the legacy protocol
reports a deletion as the whole outgoing file — so without this, deleting a
.env would persist its full contents in cleartext.
redactValue now walks the composite shapes json.Unmarshal produces, plus
[]string and map[string]string for argv-style inputs. Composites are copied
rather than scrubbed in place, because the caller keeps using the map it
passed in.
Nesting depth comes from daemon-supplied JSON, so the walk is bounded at 32
levels; a pathologically nested payload would otherwise recurse until the
stack blows. Hitting the bound yields a placeholder rather than the raw
value, keeping the fail-safe direction.
Verified: the five new tests each fail against the previous top-level-only
implementation and pass now; full ./pkg/redact suite green.
Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>
* fix(codex): record file edit payload for patch_apply events
Both Codex protocol paths recorded a file edit as a bare call ID and set no
payload, so a run that edited six files left six blank, unexpandable rows in
the transcript. The same task on Claude or Grok showed a readable diff, and
the branch Codex pushed was the only surviving record of what it changed
(GH #6157).
The omission was specific to this one tool, not to the adapter: the
exec_command handlers directly above already captured command and output.
Both paths are fixed, since the protocol is sniffed at runtime. Their wire
shapes differ more than they appear, and the normalizer reconciles that:
- legacy patch_apply_begin/end carry map[path]FileChange, internally tagged
on `type`, where add/delete hold whole-file `content` and only update
holds a `unified_diff` plus `move_path`. There is no diff for every case,
so the normalized form keeps diff and content as alternatives.
- v2 fileChange items carry an ordered array of {path, kind, diff} where
`kind` is an object, not a string — reading it as a string silently
yields "" and loses the add/delete/update distinction.
- status spellings differ too: legacy is snake_case, v2 is camelCase and
adds inProgress. Both normalize onto one vocabulary, and a legacy event
predating `status` falls back to its `success` bool.
Legacy map iteration is sorted by path so a replayed event does not reshuffle
the file list.
Completion events now also produce a non-empty output (status, file count,
and any apply_patch stdout/stderr), because an empty output renders as an
unexpandable blank row just like a missing input.
Anything unrecognised — absent, wrongly typed, or malformed changes — returns
no payload, preserving exactly the previous degradation rather than risking
the transcript.
Total diff/content bytes are bounded at 64 KiB with UTF-8-safe truncation,
recording `truncated` and `original_bytes`; paths and kinds always survive,
since they are what a reviewer needs when the body is gone. The bound is
deliberately scoped to this new payload: other providers stream tool inputs
through unbounded, and clamping them here would silently truncate
transcripts that render correctly today. Unifying the limit at the
persistence boundary is left as a follow-up.
Verified: the new tests reproduce the reported symptom (Input:map[],
Output:"") against the previous call sites and pass now; ./pkg/agent and
./pkg/redact green, go vet and gofmt clean.
Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>
* feat(transcript): render Codex multi-file patch payloads as diffs
The presenter identified an edit by input shape — a top-level file_path plus
old_string/new_string or content — which is Claude's and Grok's shape. Codex
records one patch_apply covering several files as changes[], so even with the
payload now populated it fell through to pretty JSON instead of a diff.
A new `patch` detail kind carries one entry per file, since collapsing them
into a single body would lose which change belongs where. Each file reuses the
existing single-file surfaces, so all bodies behave alike inside the
virtualized list.
Codex hands over a ready-made unified diff, so parseUnifiedDiff maps it onto
diff rows rather than recomputing one — there is no before/after pair to
compare, and reconstructing both sides from the diff just to diff them again
would be circular. Hunk headers become `gap` rows, which is what they denote:
skipped unchanged content.
A deletion renders as all-removals rather than as a whole-file write, because
the legacy protocol reports it as the outgoing file's content and a green
"+N" gutter would state the opposite of what happened.
The collapsed row needed its own fix: with no single path field, the summary
fell through the preference chain and came back empty. It now reads as the
first path plus "+N more".
Anything that is not this shape still falls back to pretty JSON, so a payload
this presenter does not understand stays readable.
Verified: 17 new tests (43 in the presenter suite) pass; repo typecheck and
lint clean. The one failing views test, layout/sidebar-resize, fails
identically on an untouched checkout.
Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>
* fix(codex): route v2 add/delete payloads as content, not diff
Addresses review on #6158.
Upstream's format_file_change_diff only produces a unified diff for `update`.
For `add` and `delete` it returns the whole file's contents under the same
`diff` field, and for a moved `update` it appends a trailing
"\n\nMoved to: <path>" line:
FileChange::Add { content } => content.clone(),
FileChange::Delete { content } => content.clone(),
FileChange::Update { unified_diff, move_path } => ...
(codex-rs/app-server-protocol/src/protocol/item_builders.rs, rust-v0.145.0)
Recording that as a diff mislabels every line of an added or deleted file as
context, and actively inverts any line whose content begins with '+' or '-' —
so an added file containing "-minus lead" rendered as a deletion. The payload
is now routed by `kind` rather than by field name, and the "Moved to:"
sentence is stripped since move_path already carries the destination.
The previous v2 tests hid this by using a fixture the real protocol never
emits (an `add` carrying "@@ ... +package main"). They now use upstream's
shape, plus cases for delete, an empty add, and an add whose contents look
like diff headers.
Empty bodies are also kept on both paths: presence of the field, not its
non-emptiness, decides whether a body was reported, so an empty added file
renders as an empty body instead of "no content reported".
Verified: the new assertions fail against the previous normalizer — where an
`add` came through as {"diff": "package main\n"} — and pass now.
Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>
* fix(transcript): stop treating header-like content lines as file headers
Addresses review on #6158.
parseUnifiedDiff matched "---" / "+++" / "diff --git" / "index " at any
position, so a changed line whose *content* starts with a dash or plus was
silently discarded:
parseUnifiedDiff("@@ -1 +1 @@\n--- old markdown\n+++ new markdown\n")
// before: [{ kind: "gap", ... }] — both changed lines gone
A removal of "-- old markdown" is spelled "--- old markdown" on the wire, so
this hit Markdown rules, embedded patches, and comment banners.
File headers only exist ahead of the first hunk, so they are only recognised
there; once inside a hunk every line is parsed strictly by its first
character.
Also localizes the multi-file summary count, which was hardcoded English and
so leaked into the zh-Hans / ja / ko transcript rows. The presenter owns no
React and no i18n by design, so the phrasing is injected by the caller rather
than imported here, keeping the module unit-testable in isolation; the English
form remains the fallback. The three Chinese/Japanese/Korean truncation
strings now use "..." to match the English source they translate.
Verified: both new parser assertions fail against the previous
strip-anywhere behaviour and pass now; 47 presenter tests green, repo
typecheck and lint clean.
Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>
* fix(daemon): redact nested tool input before it leaves the daemon
Addresses review on #6158.
Recursive redaction ran only in the server's ingest handler. The daemon built
the new nested edit payload and sent msg.Input verbatim, so a daemon that
self-updated ahead of the server — or one talking to a server mid-rollout —
would ship whole-file edit contents to a peer that does not scrub nested
values yet. The legacy protocol reports a deletion as the whole outgoing file,
so that window covered a deleted .env in cleartext.
Ordering three commits inside one PR is not a deployment barrier, and daemon
and server upgrade independently. Deployment order is not a control we have,
so the sending side is now safe on its own; the server keeps redacting on
ingest as the second line of defence.
Scoped to Input, which is the field this PR newly fills with file contents.
Content and Output are plain strings already redacted server-side, and
changing their daemon-side handling would be unrelated to this fix.
Verified: the new daemon test asserts the nested token is masked in the
reported batch while the change metadata survives. It fails without this
change, reporting the full GITHUB_TOKEN= line on the wire, and passes with
it; ./internal/daemon green.
Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>
* fix(transcript): correct the Chinese multi-file patch count semantics
Addresses review on #6158.
The summary is handed the number of files *beyond* the named one, but the
Chinese phrasing stated a total: "a.go 等 2 个文件" reads as two files including
a.go, so a three-file patch under-reported by one. English hides the
distinction ("+2 more"), which is why it survived the first pass.
Rewords zh-Hans to "另有 N 个文件". Japanese (他) and Korean (외) already read
as "besides", so their wording is unchanged.
Also renames the interpolation variable from `count` to `extra`, for two
reasons. i18next treats `count` as the plural selector — this very namespace
relies on that for events_one/events_other — so a plain number had no business
borrowing it. And the name is what a translator reads: `extra` cannot be
mistaken for a total the way `count` was.
Guards the whole bug class rather than just this string: a locale test asserts
every locale interpolates {{path}} and {{extra}} and never the reserved
{{count}}, and a presenter test pins that the injected number is the count of
additional files, not the total.
Verified: both new locale assertions fail against the reverted string and pass
now; rendering the real locale strings for a three-file patch yields "+2 more",
"另有 2 个文件", "他 2 件", "외 2개". 53 target tests pass, repo typecheck clean,
views lint back to its pre-existing 16 warnings and 0 errors.
Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>
* fix(transcript): put the patch surface on the type scale
Addresses review on #6158.
The patch surface wrote text-[10px] / text-[11px] / text-[10px], copied from
the sibling transcript surfaces as they looked when this branch started. Since
then MUL-5451 (#6136) introduced a role-named type scale and migrated those
same siblings to text-micro, so these three call sites were the only remaining
arbitrary sizes — and the type-scale guard reports them precisely.
All three become text-micro. That matches the analogues they were copied from
now that those have moved: the FileWriteSurface line-count row, the
DiffDetailSurface header row, and the ToolDetailSurface body. It is also the
only correct target, since micro (11px) is the smallest step the scale defines
— there is nothing at 10px to map to.
Merges origin/main so the guard runs here rather than only in CI.
Verified: apps/web app/type-scale.test.ts 13/13 (it listed exactly these three
lines before), no `text-[` left in the file, repo typecheck clean, views lint
unchanged at 16 pre-existing warnings and 0 errors.
Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>
* fix(codex): redact patch bodies before applying the size budget
Addresses review on #6158.
The adapter sized and truncated the normalized changes, and redaction only ran
later — in the daemon before sending, then again in the server on ingest. That
order loses secrets that straddle the budget.
The PEM rule needs both markers to match:
-----BEGIN[A-Z\s]*PRIVATE KEY-----.*?-----END[A-Z\s]*PRIVATE KEY-----
So a 70 KB private key whose BEGIN sits inside the first 64 KiB and whose END
falls past the cut stops matching once truncated. Neither later pass can
recognise what truncation already broke, so the marker and 64 KiB of key
material reach the database and the WebSocket broadcast. Measured on the
previous code:
stored bytes 65536 | BEGIN marker present | key body present | placeholder absent
Redaction now runs first, and the budget measures the redacted bodies — which
is also the honest measurement, since those are what actually gets stored and
redaction usually shrinks them (that key collapses to 23 bytes, so no trimming
is needed at all). `original_bytes` still reports the pre-redaction size so the
reader sees how large the real patch was. The daemon and server passes stay as
defence in depth; redaction is idempotent, so running three times is safe and
that is now asserted.
Note for callers: codexPatchInput no longer trims its argument in place, because
redaction copies first. Two existing tests were asserting on the caller's
original slice and had silently become vacuous; they now read the returned
payload, and one pins the no-mutation contract. The delete fixture in the
diff-vs-content routing test was also a credential-shaped string, which now
redacts — it is plain text so that test keeps testing routing.
Verified: the new boundary test fails on the previous order, reporting the
surviving BEGIN marker and key material, and passes now. go test ./pkg/agent
./pkg/redact ./internal/daemon green; execenv ByteIdentical green; go vet and
gofmt clean.
Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>
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Co-authored-by: Eve <eve@multica-ai.local>
Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>
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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.