14 Year Old Developer Releases Autark to Coordinate AI Agents

Nov 11, 2026
Autark lets a manager agent assign tasks to other AI agents and collect their results, but users must provide their own security controls.

The Register reports that 14 year old Austrian developer Stanislaus Hees created Autark, an open source tool that organizes AI agents into a virtual team. Users submit tasks to an inbox, where a manager agent delegates work, collects results and requests clarification when needed.

Agents can start work in response to schedules, timers, messages, tasks or other events. Autark connects through command line tools to OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI and Kimi Code, and it also supports local models. According to Autark's website, support for models other than Codex and Claude Code has not yet been tested in a live run.

Autark does not include sandboxing, approval prompts or permission gates. Its agents run with the privileges of the machine user and could access files, keys, repositories or external services.

Stored passwords and keys are encrypted and represented by identifiers in prompts. Its code, including the meeting server, is available on GitHub under an Apache open source license for self hosting and modification.

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