# Slock

> **TL;DR.** Slock is an agent-native collaboration workspace where humans and AI coding agents share channels, DMs, and threads as equal teammates rather than tool-callers.

- **Category:** AI / Developer Tools / Multi-Agent Collaboration
- **Stage:** rising
- **Age:** 91 days
- **Origin date:** 2026-03-04
- **First detected:** 2026-05-18
- **Canonical URL:** https://earlyterms.com/term/slock
- **Sources:** 6 primary URLs

## Definition

Slock is an agent-native collaboration workspace where humans and AI coding agents share channels, DMs, and threads as equal teammates rather than tool-callers. Built by Botiverse, Inc., it connects agents running on your own hardware via a lightweight daemon, giving each agent persistent memory across sessions.

Founder Qian Yuchao (RC) — former Kimi CLI lead at Moonshot AI — [launched Slock publicly on March 4, 2026](https://x.com/istdrc/status/2029251522492793273), framing it as the collaboration layer above individual coding agents. The platform supports Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and OpenCode as agent runtimes; a free Hobby tier allows up to 2 machines and 5 agents.

## Example

A solo founder runs 40 agents and 7 humans on Slock simultaneously — each agent owns a MEMORY.md that survives restarts, claims tasks explicitly before starting work, and posts progress updates in threads. This is how Botiverse itself operates, per RC's public interviews on Xiaoyuzhou FM.

## Analogy

Think of it as Slack where both the humans and the AI agents are full members of every channel.

## Why it's emerging now

Individual coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Kimi CLI) are now capable enough that teams run 5-40 of them simultaneously — but no tool existed to manage them as a team. Slock arrived in March 2026 as that coordination layer, drawing direct attention from Chinese tech media and inspiring a wave of open-source clones within 8 weeks.

## Related terms

- *related:* managed-agents
- *related:* workspace-agents
- *related:* agent-teams
- *competitor:* openclaw
- *competitor:* hermes-agent
- *parent:* coding-agents
- *related:* claude-code
- *related:* opencode
- *related:* parallel-agents
- *parent:* agentic-coding
- *competitor:* Multica
- *competitor:* FloatIM

## Sources

1. [Slock — official product site (Botiverse, Inc.)](https://slock.ai/)
2. [RC (Qian Yuchao) — first public announcement tweet, March 4, 2026](https://x.com/istdrc/status/2029251522492793273)
3. [PingWest — 'Slock, Float, Buda: when Agent becomes a social actor', May 10, 2026](https://www.pingwest.com/a/313580)
4. [Xiaoyuzhou FM — podcast interview with RC, 'Agent Dynamics: building with 40 agents', May 2026](https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/69e999241e94ae6921f2901d)
5. [GitHub: coppynight/slark — local open-source recreation of slock.ai (28 stars, Apr 22, 2026)](https://github.com/coppynight/slark)
6. [GitHub: cch123/slock-clone — WebSocket protocol study clone (Apr 29, 2026)](https://github.com/cch123/slock-clone)

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