AI BriefingNitric Team Open-Sources Sugabots for Multiplayer Agent Group Chat
Key point
The open-source project enables shared workspaces where humans and AI agents collaborate using local models like Ollama or external APIs.
Details
The team behind the Nitric framework has open-sourced Sugabots, a multiplayer agent group chat platform designed to centralize interactions between humans, AI agents, and automations. Originally an internal tool to reduce context switching between Slack and agents, it provides shared pods where all participants can view chats, results, and approvals in real time.
Key Features
- Shared Workspaces: Humans and agents operate in the same environment, ensuring transparency in interactions.
- Agent Collaboration: Agents have distinct prompts, models, and tools, and can request assistance from one another.
- Model Flexibility: Supports ChatGPT sign-in, various API providers, and local models via Ollama (e.g., Qwen3.8-Flash-Next).
- Tool Integration: Connects to external tools like Home Assistant, Linear, and Notion via MCP (Model Context Protocol).
- Automation: Supports scheduled or webhook-triggered routines.
Deployment and Security
Sugabots is self-hostable, requiring bun and PostgreSQL, or deployable via a Docker image. All data is encrypted in the database, and model requests are routed through user-configured providers, allowing for fully local execution on private networks.
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