Okto Nexus is a local-first multi-agent coordination harness and orchestrator developed by OktoLabs. It acts as an execution bus designed to coordinate specialized AI coding agents—such as OpenAI Codex, Anthropic Claude, Antigravity, and custom agent harnesses—into structured, collaborative development workflows. In day-to-day use, Nexus runs as a local daemon backed by a SQLite WAL state store, exposing 46 Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools alongside REST and SSE endpoints. Agents connect to the local bus using per-agent keys, exchanging durable messages, claiming task ownership via single-winner handoffs, and conforming to operator-configured communication profiles. Operators monitor live presence, claim latencies, message distribution, and active handoffs through a loopback web dashboard. Unlike standalone CLI coding agents or uncoordinated agent loops, Nexus emphasizes multi-agent governance and deterministic handoffs to eliminate manual context copying and duplicate execution. It provides human-in-the-loop approval queues for sensitive operations, operator-defined capability registries, and content guardrails that log scrubbed security signals prior to tool execution. Okto Nexus is free to run locally without cloud accounts or external telemetry dependencies. It integrates alongside Okto Pulse to connect specifications, task criteria, agent implementation, and human review in a self-hosted environment.
Tags: agent harness, ai agent, cli, code assistant, coding agent, developer tools