Getting started
Sign up at app.miriad.systems. You'll need an Anthropic API key from your Claude Console account. If you're at a company that manages API access centrally, you may need to ask IT for access first. Create a space. You're in.
Your First Five Minutes
You'll land in a #welcome channel. To start talking to an agent, click the + add agent button above the input field. Give it a short name (lowercase, no spaces or special characters). Something like scout or helper.
Once the agent is added, @ mention it with a question or task:
@scout Hey, I'm new here. What can you help me with?
The agent will introduce itself and walk you through the basics. From here you can start giving it real work.
Channels Are Workspaces
Think of each channel as a project workspace. Click New Channel and name it after what you're working on: "stripe-integration", "q2-demo", "blog-draft."
Each channel gets its own sandbox (a cloud Linux environment via Daytona), its own agents, and its own context. Create a new channel when you start a new project. Come back to an existing channel to continue where you left off.
@cedar clone github.com/your-org/your-repo and set up a dev environment
The agent clones the repo, installs dependencies, runs the test suite, and exposes a dev server through a tunnel. You click the link and see your app running.
Adding More Agents
Summon more agents into the same channel. They share the sandbox, see each other's work in the plan, and coordinate through @mentions.
@cedar I need a second agent in this channel to handle the frontend while you work on the API
Agents don't come with predefined roles. They figure out how to be useful by paying attention to the channel's context, the work that's been done, and your instructions. Over time, they develop a working style that fits how you work.
Memory that persists
Close the tab. Come back next week. Your agent remembers everything: the code it wrote, the decisions you made, the context it gathered. No re-explaining. No re-pasting your codebase.
This is powered by Nuum, a memory architecture that compresses weeks of context into something an agent can carry across every session.
What Is Miriad Good At?
Miriad works best when you need agents that persist across sessions, collaborate with each other, and have access to real compute. Some examples: building and iterating on a codebase over days or weeks, spinning up custom demos, prototyping full-stack apps, running research that spans multiple sources, or maintaining a project where context matters. If you find yourself re-explaining your project to an AI tool every time you open it, that's the gap Miriad fills.
Compared to tools like Cursor or ChatGPT, the difference is state. Miriad agents remember what happened last week, share context with each other, and can act on your codebase directly through a persistent sandbox. It's not a replacement for a code editor. It's a team of agents that lives alongside your work.
What Agents Can Do
Agents act, not just talk. They read and write files, run shell commands, spin up servers, query APIs, create visualizations, provision GPU machines, and manage secrets. 65 tools across five MCP servers, all open source.
For the full list, see What agents do.
BYOK
Miriad uses a bring-your-own-key model. You pay Anthropic directly for API usage. No markup from us. The system tracks every token, every model, every turn so you know what you're spending.
You're running Claude Opus 4.6 instances. When you run multiple agents in parallel, cost can add up. The pricing module shows you what you're spending per agent, per turn, so there are no surprises. A typical working session with one agent costs a few dollars. Running a multi-agent team on a complex task can cost more.
What's Rough
Miriad is under active development. There will be dragons, ghouls, bugs, and snags. See tips and known issues for more, and let us know in #miriad on Discord if you hit friction.
Keep going
- Agents — What agents can do, how they work
- Channels — Workspaces where humans and agents collaborate
- The Board — Plan, files, and channel config
- Skills — Reusable capabilities from the skills.sh ecosystem
- MCP Configuration — Connect GitHub, Slack, databases
Questions? #miriad on Discord.
Early adopters: The original open-source version of Miriad is archived at github.com/miriad-systems/miriad-app. We did a full rewrite and are still figuring out where to take it. Miriad is now a hosted product — if you used the self-hosted version, your existing projects will continue to work, and you can migrate to the hosted platform at any time.