What is Cliq?

Ready-made AI teams. Your requirements. No code.

cliq is a multi-agent orchestration tool. Assemble a team of specialized AI agents, point them at a requirement, and run. Three commands. Production-quality output.

cliq assemble @cliq/hello-world
cliq req -m "Write a short article about why teamwork matters"
cliq run

Why cliq

Ready-made teams, not a toolkit. Other multi-agent frameworks require you to write Python to wire agents together. Install teams from CliqHub with cliq team install hub:// — TDD pipelines, feature development with git automation, human-in-the-loop review, and more.

Describe it, generate it, run it. Need a custom team? Describe what you want in plain English and cliq builder generates a complete team — roles, workflow, gates, and A2A metadata — validated and installed in seconds. Refine roles iteratively, analyse for gaps, and regenerate A2A metadata without touching YAML.

Configure, don’t code. Under the hood, roles are markdown files, workflows are YAML DAGs, and gates are shell commands. Everything is inspectable and editable. No SDK, no classes, no framework abstractions.

Built to share. Teams are portable packages — roles, workflow, and gates bundled together. Build a team once. Use it everywhere. Share it with everyone. CliqHub is the public registry where the community publishes and discovers teams for any domain — install with cliq team install hub:// and run.

Any domain. Official engineering teams are published on CliqHub, but the infrastructure is domain-agnostic. Channels are filesystem directories. Signals are files. The same primitives power content pipelines, research workflows, compliance reviews, or any process where specialist agents collaborate.

Getting Started


How It Works	Architecture overview — teams, roles, workflows, channels, gates, and the file-based coordination model. Start here to understand the concepts.
Quick Start	Install cliq and verify your environment.
Hello World	Walk through your first pipeline step by step — every command, every file, every concept.
Use Cases	Real-world scenarios — feature development, content production, incident response, and more.

Core Concepts


Teams	What teams are, how they’re organized, scopes, and how assembly works.
Roles	Agent personas and responsibilities. Define what each agent owns, reads, and produces.
Workflows & Phases	Phase types — standard, gate, exec, pull, push, hug — commands, verdicts, the DAG, and examples.
Channels & Signals	Filesystem-based agent communication — handoffs, coordination, and the file-based protocol.

Team Installation


CliqHub	The team registry. Discover and browse ready-made teams from the community.
Installing & Using	Install teams, assemble into projects, run pipelines, update, and manage installed teams.

Team Development


Overview	Three paths to a team, the development lifecycle, and what’s in the section.
Building with Builder	AI-powered team generation. Describe a team in plain English, generate it, refine roles, analyse gaps.
Building from Scratch	Hand-craft a team step by step — full tutorial with a blog pipeline example.
Versioning	Semantic versioning for teams — bump types, immutability, and git integration.
Publishing	Publish to CliqHub, authenticate, share via git, CI/CD publishing.
Development Lifecycle	End-to-end recipes for author, @local, and builder workflows.
Cliq SDK	Build custom agents with `@cliqhub/cliq-sdk` — standard and gate agents, the execute function, testing, and examples.

Integrations


Integrations	GitHub, Bitbucket, Jira, Slack, Google Drive, SharePoint, and more.
Pull & Push	Declarative pull and push — fetch external documents into your workspace and deliver files to Google Drive, SharePoint, and more.
Git Integration	Branch creation, TDD pipeline, merge resolution, and PR automation with GitHub or Bitbucket.
Notifications	Pipeline event notifications — Slack and Jira on start, complete, escalate, pull, push, and cancel.

Human Gate (HUG)


Overview	Bridge AI automation with human judgment — web-based review pages, chat assistants, and verdict workflows.
HUG Server	Install, configure, and deploy the review server.
Configuring a HUG	Add human review gates to your team workflows — review blocks, briefs, notifications, and the audit trail.

Configuration & Deployment


Settings	Global and project settings reference.
Logging	Structured JSON Lines logging — log levels, component filtering, rotation, and query recipes.
Docker	Run agents in containers for security and reproducibility.
Kubernetes	Run pipelines as Kubernetes Jobs for cloud-native deployment.

Server


Server API	Local HTTP/WebSocket server — instance registry, jobs, real-time events.
A2A Protocol	Agent-to-agent mesh integration — capabilities, Savant setup, and remote task dispatch.
Dashboard	Web UI for pipeline monitoring, workflow visualization, and integration testing.

Reference


CLI Reference	Complete command reference for project, team, builder, hub, and tool commands.
team.yml Reference	Complete field-by-field schema for team definitions.
FAQ	Common questions about setup, capabilities, security, and troubleshooting.