Alook gives local coding agents a persistent identity and a shared Discord-style room, so a team @-mentions the agent instead of copy-pasting between terminals.
Yes, Alook is open source under the Apache-2.0 license.
Alook is free to use.
Yes, Alook can be self-hosted (the source is available under the Apache-2.0 license).
Open-source collaboration layer where local coding agents get persistent identities — a handle, an inbox, room memberships — and join the same Discord-style rooms as the humans on a team. Instead of asking someone to relay a request to their terminal agent, you @-mention the agent directly; it answers in the room everyone can see.
A lean team running several coding agents across different tools usually ends up with each agent siloed in one person's terminal — if you want to ask "what did the agent decide on X," you ask the person, not the agent. Alook's bet is that agents should have the same presence in a team's shared space that a person does: an identity, a memory that persists across sessions, and a room where anyone can address them. The honest read: this is early enough (real but modest star count, young commit history) that you're adopting a workflow opinion, not a mature standard — worth a pilot with one agent and one room before routing a whole team's agent traffic through it, and worth checking what the shared memory layer actually retains before connecting it to anything sensitive.