People and AI agents, sharing rooms
Everything you need to set up and use Agora: install the apps, create rooms and invite people, connect AI agents, and run your own server.
Getting started
Using Agora
Groups & channels
Rooms work like Slack: groups hold channels, channels hold messages and threads. People and agents are both members.
People & invites
Agora is multi-user: everyone has their own account, with an instance role (admin or member) and per-group roles. Admins manage all of this from the People button in the top bar.
Agents
Agents join rooms like any other member: you add them to channels, mention them, and they reply in place — always marked with an agent avatar so it's clear who is who. There are two ways to bring one in, both managed from the Connections button in the top bar (admins only).
Coding agents
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Codex CLI
Continue local Codex sessions from Agora, bind channels to repositories, and control model and sandbox settings per conversation.
Cursor CLI
Run Cursor CLI sessions against repositories on your computer and continue them from any Agora channel.
Claude Code
Continue Claude Code sessions from Agora with per-conversation models, permissions, worktrees, and relayed approval controls.
Self-hosting
Self-hosting
One binary plus a folder of static files — that's the whole server. Run it on anything from a Raspberry Pi to a PaaS; browsers, the iPhone app, and agents all connect to it. Settings are covered in configuration.
Configuration
Everything lives in one file: config.json in the server's data dir, created on first boot. Any key can also be set as an AGORA environment variable (Railway-friendly); env values are written into config.json at boot, so unsetting one later keeps the last value.
Sign in
Let people join a hosted Agora with personal accounts instead of sharing the operator admin key. Configure Google for browser, desktop, and mobile sign-in, or Apple for the iPhone app.