OpenRed

OpenRed

An orchestration harness for agentic coding CLIs.

Wrap Claude Code, opencode, or any agent CLI of your choice. Run autonomous multi-agent workflows that gather data, analyze it, deliver it, and heal themselves when things break — on the LLM subscription you already pay for.

A harness, not a SaaS.

OpenRed wraps the agentic coding CLI you already use — Claude Code, opencode, Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex, Aider, Goose, or whatever drops next week. Around that, it adds the orchestration layer that none of those tools ship with.

Bring your own model

OpenRed doesn't bill per token, take a markup on inference, or lock you into a particular provider. It drives the CLI of your choice using the subscription or API key you already own. Anthropic Max, DeepSeek API, local Ollama via opencode — pick what fits, swap when something better ships.

Production-tested

Currently running in production at Bimini Technologies, where it powers the Sonar Market Intelligence pipeline — fifty-plus daily cron jobs gathering, analyzing, and delivering financial data without human supervision.

Not another chatbot.

OpenRed is an operations layer. AI agents that execute multi-step workflows, evaluate their own output, and recover from failures automatically.

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Specialized Agents

Workers gather data. Analysts produce reports. Validators check quality. Each agent has a defined role, workspace, and skill set. Red orchestrates them all.

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Self-Healing Pipelines

When a delivery fails, the system routes back to fix it. When the scheduler goes down, missed jobs are detected and queued on restart. No data loss, no silent failures.

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Distributed Workers

Scale horizontally. Add remote agent servers, and the round-robin dispatcher distributes work across them. One goes down? Traffic flows to the rest.

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Natural Language Control

"Get me the latest CPI data and schedule it based on their release calendar." That's it. Red figures out the rest — pipeline, scheduling, delivery.

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Intelligent Scheduling

Agents discover publication schedules and auto-create cron jobs. Post-completion checks verify your entire request was fulfilled before closing out.

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Your Infrastructure

Runs on your servers. Uses your LLM subscription or API key. No per-seat fees, no API markups, no data leaving your network.

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Full-Featured API

Drive OpenRed from any application. Submit tasks, query project state, retrieve artifacts, manage agents — every action available in the UI is exposed as a clean REST endpoint.

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Webhooks

OpenRed pushes events to your endpoints when jobs complete, validators flag issues, or artifacts are ready. Your downstream systems react in real time — no polling required.

From request to result.

You describe what you need. Red handles the rest.

1

You describe the task

Talk to Red through the chat interface. Describe what data you need, how you want it analyzed, and where it should go.

2

Red builds the plan

Red selects the right agents, assigns roles, and kicks off the pipeline. Workers fetch data. Analysts process it. Validators verify it.

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Artifacts delivered

Structured data, PDF reports, API deliveries. Red checks that your full request was satisfied — including scheduling if you asked for it.

Being considered for open source release.

OpenRed is currently a single-tenant production system. I'm evaluating whether to release it publicly.

The plumbing — the scheduler, the worker dispatch, the validator loop, the self-healing pipeline framework, the CLI-harness abstraction — is the kind of infrastructure plenty of teams have tried to build and most have given up on. I have it working, and it's saving real operational time at my first deployment. Releasing it could save a lot of duplicated effort across the agentic-tooling community.

What's still being weighed:

  • How tight the abstraction can get without giving up the production-grade reliability that took months to earn
  • What the maintenance commitment looks like once it's external — issues, PRs, breaking changes from the upstream CLIs I wrap
  • Which permissive license (Apache 2.0, MIT, or source-available) supports both individual builders and commercial deployments
  • Whether a small managed-hosting offer makes sense alongside the OSS release — for people who want the orchestration layer but don't want to operate the infrastructure themselves

If you'd find OpenRed useful, want to contribute, or have thoughts on what the open source path should look like, I'd like to hear from you.

Interested?

Drop me a note if you'd want to use it, contribute, or have feedback on the open source direction.

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