Timon open-source AI workstation released
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Saucisse_dev open-sources the Timon AI workstation: the orchestrator dispatches tasks to agent roles such as coding, review, merge, research, and operations; each task is completed in a separate git worktree and reviewed by another model before being merged. Timon directly reuses the user's already logged-in CLI subscriptions such as claude, codex, and copilot, and does not call token-billed APIs; before use, at least one logged-in agent CLI is required (claude, codex, copilot, grok, opencode, pi, or hermes-acp). The project is licensed under AGPL v3, plugins may choose a separate license, and Windows, macOS, and Linux are supported. According to the project description, the license does not replace the user's CLI subscription, and Timon will not call token-billed APIs on the user's behalf.
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Timon is an open-source AI workstation that runs a team of agents on your own machine through the CLI subscriptions you already pay for, with an orchestrator splitting jobs into tasks handled by coder, reviewer, merger, researcher and ops roles. Each task runs in its own git worktree and is reviewed by a second model before merging, and agents ask for permission before pushing, publishing or deleting anything. It runs as a background daemon on Windows, macOS and Linux with desktop, browser, phone, Telegram and CLI clients, and is licensed under the GNU AGPL v3.
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