Your first team in 5 minutes
Five minutes from one chat to a team of agents run by a manager.
You stop typing into one agent and start running a small team of them.
- a feature and its tests
- a bug fix and its changelog
- three fixes at once
You stop typing into one agent and start running a small team of them. In CodeAF each agent is a conversation, a team is a named group of conversations, and a manager is one more conversation whose job is the team. You say what you want once, to the manager, and it hands the work out.
Try it in CodeAF
- Where
On Teams (
/teamsor Alt+2).- Press
- Click
+ New team, enter a name and choose a colour. - Select existing conversations in the Name/Project list, or create an empty team.
- Use
+ Add chatto add the conversations you need. - Use
+ Managerfor a fresh manager, orChoose AI managerto assign an existing member. - Open the Manager card in Chats and send your goal.
- Click
- You see
Teams shows your manager and member previews, recent interactions and questions. The manager opens in Chats with the team overlay selected and its
◆ Managertab pinned first.
Before you start
Install with curl -fsSL https://agentfield.ai/get/codeaf | bash, then run codeaf. With no provider connected, the first run starts with choose a model provider, then connects the provider you choose and opens Basic settings for your daily limit and chat model. An existing working connection skips the chooser. Nothing about managers costs anything until you make one.
What happens at each step
Creating the team saves its name, colour and memberships. It starts no model work. An empty team is useful when you want to add fresh conversations rather than sort existing ones. Add members from the team's overview with + Add chat.
The manager is a conversation too. Assign an existing member with Choose AI manager, or create the first manager with + Manager. To replace a manager with a new conversation, add that conversation first, then choose it. Open the manager card to send a goal. The manager can read its members, send them work and start new members under its approval rules.
Return to Teams to read the saved previews and recent interactions without starting another turn. Click a member or interaction to continue that conversation in Chats. The separate ▦ All grid remains the library of every saved conversation, whether or not it belongs to a team.
When a member finishes, it tells the manager, which wakes and reports to you. When the team outgrows one manager, the same manager can start a sub-team with a manager of its own, and later a global manager can sit over every team: the layer you just made is the one the whole chart is built from.
Things to build
- A feature and its tests: two members, one building and one testing, and a manager that hands the tests out when the feature reports done.
- A tidy window: turn a window of unrelated chats into named teams, each with a manager. Organize a messy window
- A review line: the next team to try, where nothing merges until a reviewer says pass. Review every change
Go further
Build a software company: three teams and a global manager, set up from one message.
Coming soon: describe the org you want and CodeAF builds it: teams, managers, budgets, standing orders.