Open core · AGPL-3.0 · runs on your hardware

Agent swarms on your own metal.

Vornik is an asynchronous, local-first orchestration daemon. Define projects, submit tasks, and isolated agents work through them while you're away — your hardware, your models, your data. No cloud sign-up.

Set up Vornik for me. Follow the runbook at https://agents.vornik.io

Paste into Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or any coding agent with shell access. AGENTS.md is a runbook it can execute and verify — install, LLM key, first task, and its own persistent memory on your Vornik. It asks you before anything privileged.

Read the getting-started guide Star it on GitHub

your agent · setting up vornik

> Set up Vornik for me — follow AGENTS.md.

$ curl -fsSL https://get.vornik.io | bash

ok Vornik is up and ready.

$ curl -s localhost:8080/readyz

{"status":"ready"}

$ vornikctl task submit -p assistant --prompt "Say hello"

ok task COMPLETED — the agent answered

$ recall "smoke canary"

ok memory round-trip verified

> Done. I'll remember this install.

You submit work and walk away. Vornik queues it, runs each agent in its own container, and persists every result — so the swarm keeps working when your editor is closed.

What you get

Built for data-sensitive, self-hosted work

Local-first

The daemon and every agent container run on one host you control. Works with self-hosted open-weight models or any OpenAI-compatible cloud endpoint.

Zero-egress agents

Each task's agent runs in an isolated Podman container with no network by default. The daemon makes the outbound model calls; agents never touch the network.

Persistent project memory

pgvector-backed RAG per project. Swarm agents recall prior work — and your coding agent gets remember / recall across sessions via the companion plugin.

Swarms & workflows

Roles, step graphs, gates, retries, delegation — plus autonomous task creation with approval gates when you want the swarm proposing its own work.

How it runs

One host, clean seams

HOST (your user, rootless podman)
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  vornik daemon — systemctl --user service    │
│    ├── UI + API on :8080                     │
│    ├── makes the outbound LLM calls          │
│    └── spawns agents as sibling containers   │
│         ├── vornik-postgres (pgvector)      │
│         ├── agent container · task 1         │
│         └── agent container · task N         │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Editions

Complete core, open by default

Community

AGPL-3.0 · github.com/grinco/vornik

The complete orchestration core — daemon, agents, memory/RAG, workflows, Web UI, CLI, companion plugin. Fully usable on its own for personal and small-team work.

Source on GitHub

Enterprise

proprietary · same core

Advanced capabilities on top of the Community core for organizations — packaged, supported, and built on the same daemon you can read the source of.

Feature matrix