Merlin – Your agents, now part of your team

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Why Merlin

A new member in your team. Built for small AI-native teams, Merlin brings AI agents to the collaboration tools you already use.

Work in the open

Tasks start where the conversation is and stay visible to everyone in it. Work with agents as a team, right where you share context, discuss decisions, and move work forward.

Your machines, your accounts

The agent runs on your team's own computers, on the Claude and Codex subscriptions you already pay for. Put the files, tools, and context already on your computer to work. No API keys, no separate model bill.

Compounds across the team

What one person sets up, everyone gets: publish a skill once, share a machine, put recurring work on a schedule. Shared memory carries your team's history, decisions, and knowledge into every new task.

How it works

Up and running in three steps.

  1. [01]

    Connect one machine

    Install Merlin's desktop app or CLI and sign in. Claude Code and Codex use your existing MCP servers and skills. Share your machine with the team when you're ready.

  2. [02]

    Add Merlin to Slack channels

    Invite Merlin to your team's Slack channels. It only sees a channel's content once invited. Choose whether it responds proactively or only when @mentioned.

  3. [03]

    Ask and get results in the thread

    Tell Merlin what you need done in plain language. It gets to work and brings progress and results back to the same thread, where your team can follow along.

  1. Lives where your team already works.

    Use Merlin inside Slack, Linear, and GitHub. Ask in a thread, delegate an issue, and get the answer back where you asked. Not another app to keep open.

  2. Multiplayer by default.

    Turn working solo with an agent into a team experience. Everyone sees the same runs, steers the same tasks, and draws on the same shared context.

  3. Takes initiative when it matters.

    Enable proactive responses to bring Merlin into the discussion when it can help. It surfaces missing context and raises angles your team may have overlooked, helping your team turn discussion into better-informed decisions.

  • Shared skills

    Publish a skill from your own machine to the workspace catalog, or draft one in the browser. Anyone installs it on their Claude Code or Codex.

  • Schedules

    Let Merlin handle recurring progress updates and routine checks, so your team can spot blockers and stay on top of changes without chasing updates.

  • Access control

    Choose who can use Merlin in Slack and control access to your devices, skills, memory, and schedules. Give your team what they need while keeping sensitive resources in the right hands.

  • Memory

    Memory across your company and channels captures shared knowledge, past decisions, and lessons learned. Merlin gets to know your company and how your team works, bringing that understanding to each new task.

Use cases

One agent, a seat at every table.

Engineering

Turn pull request feedback into code changes without leaving GitHub. Ask Merlin to make a change, add requirements in the comments, and review the updated code together.

FAQ

Questions teams ask first.

The short ones are here. For anything else, ask below.

Put your agents where your team already is.

Connect one machine, add Merlin to Slack, and your whole team can hand work to Claude Code and Codex today. Free for up to five people, no API keys, no card.