Agent Orchestration
Workers together = a team.
One worker does one thing at a time. A real office needs many — without stepping on each other.
What we built
LifeOS · Living Office
Two brand surfaces of one substrate. LifeOS for individuals · Living AI Office for enterprises. Builds on the open-source patterns below, plus our own library, memory, skills, and connectors. Open the LifeOS page →
What else exists
Paperclip
MIT · 66.9k★. Heartbeats · org chart · budgets · multi-company. Closest open-source pattern to ours.
Multica
Apache 2.0 · 30.3k★. Multi-runtime daemon — 11 agent CLIs on one board. Issues with assignees.
Claude Agent SDK
Anthropic. Subagents — flat tree, no A2A messaging, ~20k token tax per call. Single-vendor.
OpenAI Agents SDK
MIT · 26.5k★. Swarm successor. Smallest primitive surface. Tracing tied to OpenAI’s platform.
The two camps
The field has split.
Office-style
You manage agents like employees. Hire · assign · review · pay.
LifeOS · Paperclip · Multica · Claude Subagents
The user is a manager.
Framework-style
You wire agents like graph nodes. Code their connections.
LangGraph · CrewAI · AutoGen · Google ADK
The user is an engineer.
Also in the field
| Tool | Stars | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MetaGPT | 67.5k | Agents simulate a software house — PM, Architect, Engineer, QA. |
| CrewAI | 51.4k | Role-based crews. MIT. |
| AutoGen | 50.4k | Conversational pioneer. Now in maintenance mode. |
| LangGraph | 32.4k | Stateful graphs. Klarna, Uber, LinkedIn in production. |
| Google ADK | 15.6k | Bi-weekly releases. Vertex / Gemini-tilted. |