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Show HN: Bees – Run agentic teams on your own computer (open source)

By ravikapoor101 2 min read 3 views 0 comments

Author here. Bees is an agentic harness that runs on your own machine — macOS, Windows and Linux, MIT/Apache 2.0.The problem we kept hitting in client work: every agent platform wanted to be the place your documents live. We wanted the opposite — the orchestrator reads your files in place, on your disk, and we never see them.How it works: you describe work in plain English, Bees proposes the agents, stages, tools and schedule, and nothing runs until you apply it. Agents execute locally in their own run folders. A separate reviewer agent checks output before it advances a stage. Agents stop and ask for approval before external side effects like sending mail.Coordination is deliberately thin. In a Regular org we sync team membership, process runs and stages, work claims, and file names with relative paths. Not contents. If you want no third party at all, pick a local model and local tools and it runs fully offline.Model routing is BYO: local models, your own API keys, or the official Claude Code CLI you already have installed and signed into as yourself. We don't intermediate credentials and we add no per-token or per-run fee — that's the whole point.Rough edges, honestly: {name the…

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