Agency multi-agent platform

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1. having worked with the Agency for six months, I can't imagine going back to another framework

   Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “Open Source AI Must Win”

2. I've been using it and developing it for a while now

   Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Agency in an MCP: all the tools you need to do your own SEO work”

3. It removes drift issues entirely.

   Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Show HN: One source of truth for agent configs across repos”

4. Agency fixes a lot of this.

   Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “Show HN: Agency – Manage Agents for Your Robinhood Agentic Account”

5. You might be interested in William Gibson's Jackpot triloy - The Peripheral and Agency.

   Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future”

6. completely self sufficient developer agency with a custom interface and backend

   Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “And yet Another "Dev Agency in a Box"”

7. his character in The Agency is kind of exactly how I imagined Odysseus

   Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “An Uncomplicated Man”

8. It works surprisingly well for parallelizing implementation tasks.

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Agency – Open-source multi-agent platform for autonomous software development”

9. to achieve some of this but from within a single agent CLI session

   Recommends · May 2026 · in “Agents need control flow, not more prompts”

10. I especially like their profiler and context manipulation API

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Agency: Open-source platform for debugging, profiling, and analyzing AI agents”

11. Agency is our native app for proactive monitoring

    Mixed · Mar 2026

12. Agency was one of the dullest reads I've encountered in a long time.

    Criticizes · Jun 2026 · in “Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min”