An open-source harness that brings multiplayer AI agents to Slack

Most AI agents act like personal assistants, but a new open-source project called qm turns them into team players.

YC Software released qm this week, an open-source agent harness that gathered 1,625 GitHub stars in its first few days. It connects autonomous AI agents to Slack and a web dashboard, letting employees run isolated tasks individually or work with agents together in shared channels.

Why it matters: Most companies end up locked into a single AI provider when building internal workflows. qm sits between your team and the AI, running Pi, OpenCode, Codex, and Claude Code on the exact same core. It gives every employee their own sandboxed file system and credentials, while enforcing hard security rules that block destructive actions like recursive file deletes or wiped databases.

Know this: You can deploy an instance to AWS or Fly.io straight from your terminal:

npm exec --package=@yc-software/qm@latest -- qm init . --org <slug> --target <fly-or-aws>

One unusual rule: if you want to contribute to the project, don't submit code. The maintainers only accept human-written text proposals describing the change you want.

Your next startup teammate might just be a Claude instance hanging out in #engineering.