Synapse AI Team Management OS
Distilled from 55 active core AI agents across 12 teams in long-running Multi-Agent practice.
Any team can equip its own AI workforce.
Not prompt tweaking — engineered Harness Engineering.
Three Core Pillars
What makes Synapse reliable in production
Harness Engineering
Agent = Model + Harness
A three-layer governance architecture: Guides (feed-forward) × Workflow (structured process) × Constraints (enforced boundaries). Agents stop repeating the same mistakes.
Note: "three-layer governance" refers to CLAUDE.md's Guides + Workflow + Constraints; it does not conflict with the about page's "five-layer architecture" (system component layering).
CEO Guard Execution Chain
L1 → L2 → L3 → L4 → L5 Decisions
A five-tier decision framework (L1 auto / L2 expert / L3 Lysander / L4 strategic-alignment notify / L5 value judgment). Every tool call is intercepted by a PreToolUse hook and written to the audit log.
Zero-code Start
Template → Configure → Launch
Fork the skeleton repository, swap three variables in CLAUDE.md (CEO name / operator name / company name), restart your Claude Code session. The harness, dispatch protocol, and decision framework come online on the next message.
How Synapse Works
From download to first dispatch
Choose a template
Pick the preset closest to your context — content team, engineering team, operations team, and more.
Personalize
Global-replace three fields: CEO name, president name, company name. Ctrl+H, three minutes.
Activate
Restart your Claude Code session. Harness, CEO Guard, execution chain, and decision system all come online.
Evolve continuously
Say "upgrade Synapse" to pull the latest version. Your personalized config is preserved across upgrades.
Production Proof
From Real-World Practice, not a whitepaper
Synapse is not a theoretical product. It was distilled from running 55 active core AI agents across 12 teams in long-running Multi-Agent production — through failures, iterations, and corrections — into an engineered methodology.
Every rule has a real "why" behind it: system chaos from an over-privileged CEO persona, runaway tasks from broken execution chains, opaque decisions from missing audit trails. These are the problems that drove every iteration of Harness Engineering.
Intelligence pipeline runs daily: search, filter, report, act, notify.
CEO Guard intercepts every out-of-scope tool call in real time, fully auditable.
Cross-session state recovery: new sessions read active_tasks.yaml, nothing is lost.
Forty harness governance modules load on demand. The main CLAUDE.md stays inside its self-imposed 320-line entropy budget (currently 281).
Ready to equip your AI team?
Open source. Free. Fork the skeleton, swap three variables in CLAUDE.md, restart your Claude Code session.
Everything in Synapse
Capabilities
Twelve specialist teams covering the full operating surface of a modern business.
How It Works
Agent = Model + Harness. The five-step execution chain, guides and sensors, the three-layer CLAUDE.md.
Team
Fifty-five active core specialists across twelve teams. Every one graded A/B/C and machine-readable.
Intelligence
Every morning, your AI team reports for work. A closed daily intelligence loop.
Academy
Setup guide, AI team roster, Skills workflow, and Harness methodology. Start here.
Closed Beta
The Founding 30 — thirty teams shaping the next year of Synapse. Apply to join the waitlist.
Get Started
Three steps: clone, swap three variables, restart session.