An AI Chief of Staff that runs the work.

A Chief of Staff’s job is to run the agents, remember the decisions and know what needs your yes. Murage’s does that with a team of AI bots, and it runs other companies’ agents (Claude Code, Codex, Hermes or a local model) as that team, on your computer, open source. The app is free.

Free and open source. macOS, Windows and Ubuntu.

Before the first patient, your inbox is sorted. A physiotherapy clinic owner at reception before opening, with his AI team seated in the waiting room chairs: Ember, Mend on reminders, Rio on rebooking and Coin on invoices.

The three parts of the job.

Run the agents.

Tell it the job in a sentence. It proposes a team of specialist bots, with each one’s role, before anyone starts. Then it hands out the work and collects what comes back.

Each bot runs on the engine you pick for it, on your own plan, so a Claude Code bot and a Codex bot can work the same job.

An HVAC business owner leaning on his desk with arms folded, holding a page and looking out of a window at golden hour.
Hire or ads? Ember put five bots on it: both sides argued, one page back.

Remember the decisions.

It records what matters about your people, preferences and decisions as memory records, stored on your computer. Open any record, edit it or delete it.

Saved notes help the team pick up tomorrow where it stopped. They aren’t perfect recall, so you can see exactly what’s there.

Split photo of a pharmacy owner at his home desk: tired under a lamp at 11:30pm, then relaxed with tea in morning sun.
Briefed at 11:30pm, one page by 7am: Ember remembers the meetings, the replies and what comes first.

Know what needs your yes.

New bots start on Ask. On Full access, a bot stops before messaging anyone new, posting publicly, paying, or deleting outside its folder, unless you have allowed it for that task. Replies in an existing conversation go ahead on Auto and Full access. No limits turns the stop line off. On Hermes and other ACP engines, Ask and the stop line cover only what the engine asks Murage about: shell commands and file edits.

Every question from every bot comes to one place in the app, and you can answer from Telegram with a tap.

Split photo of a photographer at her studio desk: slumped under fairy lights at 11:15pm, then upright with a warm drink at 7:30am.
Twelve follow-ups drafted, nothing sent. Sending the first three waits for Allow once.

One morning, start to finish.

One brief: triage the inbox, draft the replies, send nothing. Replayed from a real Murage run in a demo workspace. The company and its emails are made up; the app and what the bots did are real.

EmberChief of Staff
  1. Brief
  2. Team
  3. Work
  4. Your call
  5. Result

Go through my inbox before I get in. Draft replies in my voice. Send nothing.

12 demo emails pasted into the chat

Ember kept this one herself

  • EmberEmber
Ember

Ember

Sam wants me to triage the inbox, draft replies in his voice, and send nothing. Let me write the drafts to the outputs folder and give a concise report.

Ember

Ember

Done. 12 emails, 8 need a reply, 4 are automated. Nothing sent.

inbox-drafts-2026-09-25.md· 4,048 bytes · saved to Files

Inbox drafts, Friday, September 25

Drafts only. Nothing sent. Review and send the ones you’re happy with.

FromAboutNeeds from you
Dana Brooks, Acme StudioRenewalThe prior contract terms
Jordan Lee, Brightline DesignPricing for 20 seatsThe per-seat price, and whether we offer a pilot
Priya S.Export to PDF?Confirm the exact steps
Ben C.Refund requestMoney. Check the billing record first

4 more drafted (board sharing, iPad sync, demo follow-up, dark mode). Set aside: a Stripe receipt, a newsletter, an invoice notice, a daily digest.

Waiting on you · Ember

Two things need you before anything is sendable

  • Ben’s refund is money. I drafted a hold line and did not promise a refund.
  • Jordan’s quote and Dana’s renewal need the real terms. I left those numbers out rather than invent them.

The drafts wait in Files. Nothing goes out until you send it.

Replay of a real runDemo data · Flux Auto · worked 1m 41s

12 emails sorted, 8 replies drafted in the owner’s voice, nothing sent.

Still yours: the per-seat price, Dana’s prior contract terms, Ben’s refund, and pressing Send.

One good run isn’t typical performance. That’s why the emails, the report and every draft are published.

Read the emails and the draftsWatch every recorded job

Other companies’ agents, run as one team.

The name isn’t unusual. This combination is what makes Murage’s Chief of Staff different.

It runs the agents you already use
Claude Code, Codex, Hermes and more, each on your own sign-in or key. You sign in to Claude Code yourself, on Anthropic’s own screen. Every engine
The team outlives the engine
A bot’s engine is a setting. Its name, memory, skills, routines and approvals live in Murage, so they stay when you switch. Switching from OpenClaw or Hermes
On your computer
Memory, files and chats are stored on your machine. The team works while your computer is on. Privacy and security
Open source
AGPL-3.0. The approval rules are code you can read, starting with server/stop-line.ts. What’s open

What it can’t do yet.

Every limit, with what to do instead

  • It runs while your computer is on with Murage open. Murage Cloud, for your computer off, isn’t open yet.
  • Drafts still need your review. The wrong 10% looks exactly like the right 90%.

What a person still does.

A human chief of staff or executive assistant does work Murage doesn’t. Here’s where the line sits.

Your AI Chief of Staff

  • Turns a sentence into a plan and a proposed team
  • Researches, drafts and summarizes, with a source next to each claim in a research page
  • Keeps notes on your people, preferences and decisions
  • Runs routines you confirm, such as a weekday morning brief
  • Takes voice calls in the desktop app, and voice messages in Telegram, Slack or Discord

You, or the person you work with

  • Decides what matters this quarter, and what can wait
  • Meets people, makes the phone calls and reads the room
  • Owns the relationships, including the awkward conversations
  • Checks the drafts and presses Send
  • Approves anything that pays, posts publicly or reaches someone new

Questions about the Chief of Staff.

What is an AI Chief of Staff?

A Chief of Staff’s job is to run the agents, remember the decisions and know what needs your yes. An AI Chief of Staff does that with a team of AI agents: it takes your brief, plans the job, hands out the work, keeps notes on what was decided and brings back the decisions that need you. In Murage it’s called Ember by default, and you can rename it.

How is this different from ChatGPT or Claude?

Keep using them. A Chief of Staff adds a standing team: it builds specialist bots for a job, runs the work over days, keeps its notes on your computer, and comes back with the decisions that need you.

Which AI does it run on?

The AI you already pay for. Each bot runs on the engine you pick: Claude Code, Codex, Hermes or a local model, among others. OpenClaw is coming. Change a bot’s engine and its name, memory, skills, routines and approvals stay put.

What does it cost?

The Murage app is free and open source. Your AI provider bills you as usual. Flux Router is optional and uses credits, for models, connected apps, voice, images and web search; your own keys work instead.

Will it send emails or post without me?

New bots start on Ask. On Full access, a bot stops before messaging anyone new, posting publicly, paying, or deleting outside its folder, unless you have allowed it for that task. Replies in an existing conversation go ahead on Auto and Full access. No limits turns the stop line off. On Hermes and other ACP engines, Ask and the stop line cover only what the engine asks Murage about: shell commands and file edits.

Does it work while I’m asleep?

Only while your computer is on with Murage open. A routine that runs late, within 12 hours, still runs. If you need a team running with your computer off, Murage Cloud will do that. It isn’t open yet.

Where does it keep what it remembers?

On your computer, as notes you can open, edit or delete. Saved notes help it pick up tomorrow, but they aren’t perfect recall, so check anything that matters.

Brief your Chief of Staff tonight.

Download the free app, connect the AI you already pay for, and tell your Chief of Staff what needs doing. Plan on about ten minutes from install to a working team.

No account needed · Runs on the AI plan you already pay for