Tale

What Tale does

Tale is an open-source project workspace where teammates and AI agents share a task board. You write a task with the problem, source files and completion criteria, assign it to a person or a project agent, follow progress, steer agents with @mentions in comments, and review the reports and files they deliver. Each agent has its own chosen runtime, model, skills and tools, and runs in a persistent sandbox workspace.

Runtimes listed in the README include Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Hermes, OpenClaw, OpenCode, Pi and Qwen Code, with availability depending on deployment, credentials and sandbox capacity. A manager agent can delegate ready tasks and coordinate follow-up work, and versioned automations handle scheduled starts, workflow steps and connector approvals. Other areas include a workflow editor, a side-by-side Chat and Arena for comparing model responses, connectors, and governance settings. The code is MIT-licensed and can be self-hosted or used as a managed Cloud service.

Key features

• Shared task board for people and agents with reports and delivered files
• Per-agent choice of runtime, model, skills and tools
• Persistent sandbox workspaces for agents
• Manager agents that delegate ready tasks
• Versioned automations with schedules, workflow steps and connector approvals
• Chat and Arena view for comparing two model responses side by side

When to use it

• Hand a research question or document review to an agent and check its cited report
• Coordinate several agents under a manager agent on one project board
• Run a repeatable scheduled process with approval steps for connectors

Who it is for: Teams that want people and AI agents to work from one shared, self-hostable project board.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

Tale supports Hermes among several agent runtimes, so a Hermes agent can be one of the workers on its project board.

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