Astro Anywhere has launched Astro, a hosted orchestration platform that sits above individual AI coding agents — Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and OpenCode — and coordinates their work across heterogeneous compute environments. Rather than issuing instructions one at a time through a chat interface, Astro accepts a high-level software goal, decomposes it into a directed acyclic graph of parallel tasks, and dispatches those tasks across whatever machines are available: developer laptops, GPU servers, HPC clusters running Slurm, and cloud VMs. Mission control lives in the browser; the actual compute stays on your own infrastructure.
The open-source Agent Runner package (@astroanywhere/agent, licensed BSL-1.1) is the on-machine component that makes this work. A single npx command auto-detects installed AI agents, inventories local hardware, reads SSH config to discover remote hosts, and authenticates via a device-code OAuth flow — all without requiring a global install. Notably, the architecture is designed so that the Astro relay server never handles user API keys or directly invokes AI models; every task dispatch is cryptographically signed in the browser and verified by the runner before execution, a design choice that addresses one of the more pressing trust concerns in multi-agent orchestration.
For developer workflows, each task runs in an isolated git worktree, and optional GitHub CLI integration means completed tasks automatically open pull requests — positioning Astro as a parallel development engine rather than a sequential coding assistant. The platform also targets scientists running data-analysis pipelines on HPC clusters (the examples repository includes academic paper-to-presentation DAGs with up to 15 task nodes and competitive intelligence reports with 13 tasks and 18 dependency edges) and what the company calls 'agentic AI users' who want to orchestrate multiple agent providers from a single dashboard. Mid-flight task steering and human-in-the-loop decision gates are surfaced directly in the mission control UI.
The hosted service at astroanywhere.com is live now; the relay protocol and Agent Runner source are already public on GitHub. The BSL-1.1 license on the runner permits free use and modification but prohibits third parties from offering it as a competing hosted service — the same licensing approach taken by HashiCorp with Terraform and Grafana Labs with their observability stack. Self-hosting the relay server is listed as a roadmap item but is not yet available.