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Rowboat releases open-source Spaces for multiplayer AI work with personal agents

September 17, 2026 at 05:46 EDT

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Rowboat Labs has released Rowboat Spaces, an open-source multiplayer workspace that lets each teammate bring a separate personal AI assistant into shared channels while keeping private work context on the user's machine. The feature shipped in Rowboat v1.0.3 on September 17, 2026, with the self-hostable Harbor server, desktop downloads for Mac, Windows and Linux, and an MCP interface for third-party agents.

Sep. 17, 2026 · Rowboat Labs

Personal agents, one shared room

Rowboat Spaces lets each teammate use a local personal assistant while shared channels hold only the messages, files and whiteboards the team chooses to post.

17,809

GitHub stars

1,770

Forks

171

Issues and PRs

Repository traction, shown to scale

17.8k

Stars

1.8k

Forks

The public repo shows roughly ten times as many stars as forks.

How a Space works

Local Rowboat

Memory, tools and model keys stay with each user.

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Shared Space

Messages, files and whiteboards hold team context.

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Attributed result

Agent work returns as the teammate who invoked it.

Why developers like it

Local-first memory, editable Markdown and open-source code give users more control over agent context.

What still needs care

Teams still need clear permissions, broader provider support and practical safeguards around background actions.

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