RondoFlow - Visual orchestration for Claude Code agents

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Open source · Local-first

Orchestrate Claude Code agents on a canvas.

Drag agents onto a board and wire them into a workflow. A Planner tunes it before the run, a Director steers each step, and an Advisor reviews the result - all on your own machine.

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  • Open source
  • Runs locally
  • Super easy to use

Batteries included - 2438 ready-to-use building blocks

57
Agents

21
Workspaces

18
Facilitators

2317
Skills

25
Templates

Built on tools you already trust

  • Claude Code
  • Next.js
  • React Flow
  • Fastify
  • PostgreSQL
  • Prisma
  • Socket.IO
  • TypeScript

Everything it does

One canvas, the whole toolkit

From building and securing workflows to running, scheduling, and reviewing them - here is the full set of what RondoFlow can do.

Build visually

  • Drag-and-drop canvas
  • A dozen+ node types - agents, skills, policies, MCP, resources, notes
  • Conditional branching & parallel DAG runs
  • Ready-made canvas templates
  • Generate a workflow from a task description

Agents & orchestration

  • Multi-agent workflows with parallel branches
  • Planner - analyzes and tunes before the run
  • Director - steers each step mid-run
  • Advisor - reviews the run and suggests fixes
  • Multi-agent discussions with facilitators
  • Claude Code, OpenAI, Perplexity, and Sakana AI

Skills, tools & integrations

  • Reusable skills attached to any agent
  • MCP server connections
  • Web search & deep research
  • HTTP requests & webhooks
  • Send email over SMTP
  • Save to a database, structure & template output
  • Local folders as resources

Guardrails & control

  • Per-agent security policies (most-restrictive-wins)
  • Permission modes - plan, edit, full
  • Tool allow / block lists
  • Approval gates mid-run

Automate & observe

  • Cron-scheduled runs
  • Live run status, streamed
  • Activity feed, audit log & analytics
  • Re-attach to a running workflow

Own your stack

  • Local-first, self-hosted with Docker
  • Workspaces & tabs
  • English, French, German, Slovak, Spanish
  • Dark & light mode
  • MIT-licensed & catalog-extensible

Why a canvas

Claude Code is one agent. RondoFlow runs the orchestra.

Claude Code in the terminal is a single agent taking one turn at a time. RondoFlow keeps that power and adds the layer above it: many agents, wired together, with guardrails and AI that plans and reviews each run.

Many agents, in parallel

Run a whole crew at once - reviewers, researchers, writers - instead of one session, one turn at a time.

Wired into a workflow

Outputs flow agent-to-agent on a visual DAG with branches and conditions, so a run is repeatable - not a chat you'd have to redo.

Per-agent guardrails

Each agent gets its own security policy - allowed tools, paths, and permissions - instead of one blanket trust level for the terminal.

Plan, steer, schedule

Planner, Director, and Advisor plan, steer, and review each run; the Scheduler reruns it on a cron - none of which a bare terminal gives you.

See how RondoFlow compares, point by point

What you can build

Drop in a crew and go

Each of these is a shipped workspace preset - a wired multi-agent pipeline you can add to the canvas and run as-is, then tweak.

Install

Up and running in 3 steps

RondoFlow runs locally. You need Node, Docker, and a Claude credential - either an Anthropic API key or a Claude Code OAuth token.

  • Node.js 20+
  • Docker
  • A Claude credential
  1. 01

    Clone the repo

    Grab the source and step inside.

    $ git clone https://github.com/rondoflow/rondoflow.git$ cd rondoflow
  2. 02

    Set it up

    One command installs dependencies, writes your .env, starts Postgres, then migrates and seeds the database.

  3. 03

    Start it

    Launches everything. Open http://localhost:3000 and sign in.

Prefer plain Docker?

Copy the example env, fill in your secrets, and bring the whole stack up in containers instead.

$ cp .env.example .env$ docker compose up

Screenshots

The real canvas

Agents, skills, and guardrails as nodes; live status as a run executes; results streaming back - in a local-first app you own, in whichever theme you like.

Catalog

Start with what ships in the box

2438 ready-to-use building blocks come bundled - agents, workspaces, skills, facilitators, and canvas templates. Use them as-is, remix them, or build your own.

Pre-built specialists - frontend, data, SEO, research, and more.

Builds and refines UI with React, TypeScript, and modern CSS.

Designs APIs, data models, and server-side logic.

DevOps Engineer

Engineering

Automates CI/CD, containers, and infrastructure.

Audits diffs for bugs, quality, and best practices.

QA / Test Engineer

Engineering

Writes tests and hunts for regressions and edge cases.

Data Analyst

Data & Analytics

Explores datasets and turns numbers into clear insights.

Data Scientist

Data & Analytics

Statistical modelling, experiments, and rigorous analysis.

SEO Specialist

SEO & Search

On-page, technical, and content SEO recommendations.

SERP Search Agent

SEO & Search

Pulls search rankings and analyses the results page.

Web Search Agent

SEO & Search

Fast, focused web search and source gathering.

Generative Engine Optimization for AI answer engines.

Keyword Analysis Agent

SEO & Search

Researches keywords, intent, and clustering opportunities.

Showing 12 of 57 - browse the full catalog below.

Browse the full catalog

Missing something?

The catalog is open and community-extensible - suggest a new agent, skill, or workspace and we’ll review it.

Suggest a catalog item

Features

Everything you need to wire agents together

A focused toolkit for building, securing, and running multi-agent workflows - without leaving your machine.

Compare

How RondoFlow stacks up

The short version against Langflow, Flowise, Hiveflow.ai, and Relay.app - see the full 15-point breakdown on the comparison page.

RondoFlowLangflowFlowiseHiveflow.aiRelay.app
Open source
Runs coding agents (your files + shell)
Per-agent security policies
Plan · steer · review the run

See the full comparison

Is RondoFlow free?

Yes. RondoFlow is open source under the MIT license and free to run yourself - you only pay for your own model usage on your Anthropic, OpenAI, or Perplexity account.

Do I need an API key or a Claude subscription?

You need one Claude credential: either an Anthropic API key or a Claude Code OAuth token from `claude setup-token`. That credential is the only thing forwarded to the agents you run.

Does my code leave my machine?

RondoFlow is local-first: it runs on your machine and executes the Claude Code CLI against your own files and tools. Your code, prompts, and keys stay local - only the messages you send to a model reach that model’s provider.

Which operating systems are supported?

Anywhere Node 20+ and Docker run - macOS, Linux, and Windows via WSL.

How is this different from using Claude Code directly?

Claude Code is a single agent in your terminal. RondoFlow orchestrates many of them on a visual canvas - parallel multi-agent workflows, reusable skills, per-agent guardrails, scheduling, and AI that plans, steers, and reviews each run (Planner, Director, Advisor).

Can I use models other than Claude?

Yes. Alongside Claude Code, agents can run on OpenAI and Perplexity - including web search and deep research - and workflows can call Sakana AI mid-run with the Sakana AI node.

Open source

Yours to read, run, and reshape

RondoFlow is MIT-licensed and built in the open. Fork it, file an issue, or send a pull request - the whole platform, including this page, lives in one repository.

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