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Show HN: A free coding agent that writes its own multi-agent workflows

A free, local-first, provider-agnostic coding agent called Kolega Code has launched via Show HN, using a planner to decompose tasks and specialist sub-agents to run parallel tracks with journaled, resumable phases. The agent offers a Plan mode that investigates without touching files and a Build mode that applies reviewed diffs, with Shift+Tab switching between them, and writes transcripts, phase journals and diffs to disk as work happens. The tool is positioned for regulated work such as cross-cutting migrations and multi-service refactors, with sessions, tokens and transcripts staying on the machine it runs on and provider treated as configuration.

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Show HN: A free coding agent that writes its own multi-agent workflows
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The production engine.

A local-first, provider-agnostic coding agent built for work that is too large for one context window. A planner decomposes the task, specialist sub-agents run parallel tracks, and every phase is journaled, reviewable and resumable.

One command fans out a coordinated org of specialised sub-agents. A planner decomposes the work, independent coders take parallel tracks, and a reviewer consolidates before anything touches your branch. The run is written down as it goes.

Why it matters on regulated work: a cross-cutting migration is not one long conversation, it is dozens of dependent changes. Fanning them out is how the work finishes; journaling them is how it gets signed off.

Plan mode investigates and proposes without touching a file. Build mode applies reviewed diffs. Shift+Tab switches between them, and anything outside the working tree (a shell command, a network call, a write beyond scope) asks first. On client engagements that boundary is not a preference, it is the control that makes the agent auditable.

Grant once, for one path, for one run. Nothing persists silently.

Sessions, tokens and transcripts stay on the box you ran it on.

Transcripts, phase journals and diffs are written to disk as the work happens. On a regulated change that record is not a nicety, it is the paper trail, and it is the same artefact set CAM™ certifies against.

Frontier, hosted or fully on-premise. In regulated environments the constraint is usually where the data may go, not which model is best this quarter, so the engine treats the provider as configuration.

Cross-cutting migrations, multi-service refactors, parallel feature tracks on one repository, and framework upgrades that touch every layer at once.

We deliver with Kolega Code, and we teach your engineers to work the same way. Open core, managed when you need scale and support.

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