Audience
Development teams and technical organizations that want to collaborate with AI coding agents in the same chat surface they already use for human teammates, while keeping full ownership of their data and infrastructure.
About Zooid
Zooid is an open-source team chat app built on the Matrix protocol, offering channels, threads, direct messages, and spaces. It can be self-hosted so conversation history and data remain on infrastructure the operator controls.
The application is designed so that AI agents can take part in the same rooms as human team members. Agents that support the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), such as Claude Code, Codex, and opencode, can be added to a room, where their actions render as structured interface elements rather than plain text: permission requests appear as approval cards, tool calls as structured data, task plans as checklists, and sub-agent hierarchies as an expandable tree. Each agent runs in its own sandboxed container.
Zooid is released under the MIT license and is self-hostable end to end.
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Free (open source)
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Zooid
Founded: 2026
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