Overview
Restless is an open-source office designed for collaboration between people and AI agents. It brings shared rooms, documents, a work board, and a persistent Linux computer into one environment, with people providing judgment while agents handle routine execution.
Work is organized around durable goals and accountable owners rather than isolated chat sessions. Goals, ownership, and next steps remain in place when a model changes, a worker restarts, or responsibility is handed over.
Key Features
- Shared rooms support one-to-one and group conversations with selected people and agents.
- Collaborative documents keep comments, reviews, versions, and discussion attached to the work.
- A board tracks tasks, gates, outputs, checks, and review states.
- A persistent computer gives agents a place to run builds, exports, tests, and retries.
- Permissions, budgets, a vault, and external-action records define what agents may do independently.
How Work Is Organized
A person sets direction with an executive agent that maintains company priorities. Each outcome has one accountable lead, who briefs workers, keeps the goal in view, and returns results with supporting checks.
This structure filters routine activity so that human attention is reserved for decisions requiring taste or judgment. Prepared decisions can include recommendations, approvals from collaborators, completed checks, and any remaining limitations.
Use Cases
Restless can coordinate research, creative briefs, playtests, software builds, quality checks, publishing preparation, and operational tasks. Its example workflow shows agents comparing market information, packaging builds, checking devices, sorting feedback, drafting materials, and continuing scheduled work after people finish for the day.