Guilds

Guilds is an open-sourced alternative to Grok bots that runs standing teams of AI agents you can inspect.

Guilds is an open-sourced alternative to Grok bots designed to run standing teams of AI agents. A guild represents a department with named roles, a shared room, and shared tables. Every run keeps the prompt the model saw, every tool call, and every memory change. Agent-to-agent work opens uses of LLMs a single agent cannot cover, and the framework keeps collaboration tractable. It offers deep inspectability, customizability for connections and tools, and portable guild configurations called recipes. The software is free under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.

Guilds at a glance

Best for: Software engineer
Runs on: Web, self-hosted, open source
Pricing: Free
Released: October 2026
Category: AI agent tool
Website: github.com/cigaleai/guilds

Key features

Run standing teams of AI agents
Inspect prompts, tool calls, and memory changes
Customize connections, tools, and models per agent
Share working configurations using recipes
Design recipes from conversations using the guild builder
Improve standing tasks using the Prompt Studio
Connect to external services like Gmail, Drive, and GitHub

Use it for

Run multi-agent departments with named roles
Inspect model prompts and tool calls during runs
Design portable guild configurations
Connect AI agents to Gmail, Drive, and GitHub

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