# Brigade

> Brigade is a self-hostable crew of AI agents arranged on a real org chart. They delegate work, hand tasks off between models with zero context loss, remember across sessions through a shared in-house memory called Tideline, and act inside the 1,000+ tools and 20+ chat channels you already use. Open source (MIT), free to self-host, with a managed cloud service coming soon.

## What Brigade is

- A crew of self-improving AI agents on a real org chart with goal-based routing, not a single chatbot.
- Tideline: a proprietary long-term memory graph with typed links between facts. It keeps what matters, lets the rest fade, self-improves under your sign-off, and resists prompt poisoning. It is not a notes file replayed into the prompt.
- Model-agnostic: runs across Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama, GLM, DeepSeek, Qwen, MiniMax, and local models via Ollama.
- 1,000+ app connectors via Composio (Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Notion, Jira, Linear, and more) plus 20+ native chat channels.
- Five built-in layers of security; switchable, encrypted database (Convex).

## Key facts

- License: MIT (open source)
- Hosting: self-host free today; managed cloud service coming soon
- Install: `npm i -g @spinabot/brigade` (Node 22.12+)
- Built on the Pi SDK (TypeScript)
- Repository: https://github.com/spinabot/brigade

## How Brigade compares

- vs OpenClaw / Hermes: Brigade adds a real org chart, managed Tideline memory, 1,000+ managed connectors, and self-improvement under approval, instead of leaving memory, integrations, and security for you to wire up.
- vs Claude Code: Brigade is open source (MIT) and self-hostable, runs a multi-agent crew rather than a single coding agent, and ships managed long-term memory.

## Links

- Homepage: https://brigade.spinabot.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/spinabot/brigade
- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@spinabot/brigade