# Show HN: Bees – Run agentic teams on your own computer (open source)

> Source: <https://bees.bot/>
> Published: 2026-10-06 23:36:57+00:00

Author here. Bees is an agentic harness that runs on your own machine — macOS, Windows and Linux, MIT/Apache 2.0.

The 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.

How 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.

Coordination 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.

Model 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.

Rough 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.

Repo: [https://github.com/Bees-bot/bees-desktop/](https://github.com/Bees-bot/bees-desktop/)

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985737](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985737)

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