{"slug": "show-hn-bees-run-agentic-teams-on-your-own-computer-open-source", "title": "Show HN: Bees – Run agentic teams on your own computer (open source)", "summary": "Bees, an open-source agentic harness released under MIT/Apache 2.0 licenses, runs agentic teams locally on macOS, Windows and Linux, reading user files in place on their own disk. The tool lets users describe work in plain English, then proposes agents, stages, tools and schedule that only run after the user applies them, with a separate reviewer agent checking output before each stage advances and approval required before external side effects like sending mail. Model routing is bring-your-own, supporting local models, user API keys, or an existing Claude Code CLI, with no per-token or per-run fee, and the author notes Linux distro coverage is the thinnest rough edge.", "body_md": "Author here. Bees is an agentic harness that runs on your own machine — macOS, Windows and Linux, MIT/Apache 2.0.\n\nThe problem we kept hitting in client work: every agent platform wanted to be the place your documents live. We wanted the opposite — the orchestrator reads your files in place, on your disk, and we never see them.\n\nHow it works: you describe work in plain English, Bees proposes the agents, stages, tools and schedule, and nothing runs until you apply it. Agents execute locally in their own run folders. A separate reviewer agent checks output before it advances a stage. Agents stop and ask for approval before external side effects like sending mail.\n\nCoordination is deliberately thin. In a Regular org we sync team membership, process runs and stages, work claims, and file names with relative paths. Not contents. If you want no third party at all, pick a local model and local tools and it runs fully offline.\n\nModel routing is BYO: local models, your own API keys, or the official Claude Code CLI you already have installed and signed into as yourself. We don't intermediate credentials and we add no per-token or per-run fee — that's the whole point.\n\nRough edges, honestly: {name the two weakest things — I'd lead with whatever your beta testers actually complained about}. Scripted installers exist but Linux distro coverage is the thinnest. Very happy to answer architecture questions, and I'd particularly like pushback from anyone running multi-machine setups.\n\nRepo: [https://github.com/Bees-bot/bees-desktop/](https://github.com/Bees-bot/bees-desktop/)\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985737](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985737)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-bees-run-agentic-teams-on-your-own-computer-open-source", "canonical_source": "https://bees.bot/", "published_at": "2026-10-06 23:36:57+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-07 00:19:02.126868+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Bees", "Claude Code", "GitHub", "Hacker News"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-bees-run-agentic-teams-on-your-own-computer-open-source", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-bees-run-agentic-teams-on-your-own-computer-open-source.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-bees-run-agentic-teams-on-your-own-computer-open-source.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-bees-run-agentic-teams-on-your-own-computer-open-source.jsonld"}}