Cradle: AI Agent Command Center

The project is still in the early stages of development. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please feel free to open an issue or open a pull request. Your contributions are welcome! Thank you for your support and interest in this project ❤️.

Development requires Node.js 22.15.0 or newer and pnpm 11.2.2. The minimum Node version is required by the relay transport's built-in Zstandard compression support.

What's Cradle?

Cradle is a desktop-first platform for managing AI agents and their workflows. It provides a unified environment where you can run agents, track issues, manage sessions, and integrate multiple LLM providers — all from a single native application.

Features

Cradle currently spans 20 major product areas, grouped into five workflows:

• Agent execution — Multi-provider chat runtimes, agent profiles, models, skills, tools, MCP, and persistent session lifecycle
• Development workflow — Workspaces, search and context, isolated Work containers, terminal, editor, Git, worktrees, diff review, and Pull Request delivery
• Coordination — Issues, Kanban, agent delegation, scheduled automation, background artifacts, session awaits, and workflow rules
• Knowledge and operations — Chronicle memory, local activity capture, usage and cost analytics, search, observability, and support diagnostics
• Platform and extensions — Plugin Marketplace, integrations, built-in Browser and Appshot, remote hosts, relay transport, downloads, and desktop updates

Details

Builtin Plugins

Plugin	Description	Status
@cradleapp/browser-use	MCP plugin that controls Cradle's built-in browser, supporting navigation, clicking, input, screenshots, page text reading, and DOM structure inspection.
@cradleapp/system-info	Exposes system information capabilities through the plugin API and Web commands.
@cradleapp/github-issues	First-party plugin that reads GitHub Issues via REST API as an external issue source, with workspace-level repository bindings and local Kanban status overlays.
@cradleapp/slack-conversation-bridge	Slack Socket Mode adapter and controls for the Cradle server-owned conversation bridge.

Integration Plugins

Plugin	Description	Status
@cradleapp/cc-switch	Maps CC Switch provider data into Cradle as a read-only external provider source.
@cradleapp/nowledge-mem	Official Nowledge Mem adapter for guided memory, Working Memory, thread, and context operations.

Packages

Package	Description	Status
@cradle/cli	Generated-first TypeScript CLI for Cradle. Commands are auto-generated from the server OpenAPI spec via pnpm gen:cli.
@cradle/ipc [^ipc-decorator]	Type-safe IPC communication layer for Electron apps, built on top of electron-ipc-decorator. Provides a structured way to define IPC services with decorators, automatic type inference, and error handling.
@cradle/model-api-simulator	Deterministic loopback simulator for testing the core Anthropic Messages and OpenAI Responses protocols through their official SDKs.
@cradle/plugin-sdk (npm: @cradleapp/plugin-sdk)	SDK for building Cradle plugins — manifest types, permission system, and platform-specific entry points (server, web, desktop).
@cradle/streamdown	Streaming markdown renderer with CPS smoothing, block-level FSM, and animated text reveal.

Apps

Feedback

Have ideas, suggestions, or feedback? Join the Telegram channel @wibusChannel, or open an issue on GitHub.

🌻 Thanks

I have been deeply inspired by the following projects and communities:

• Thanks to Codex for its feature ideas.
• Thanks to LobeHub for its streamdown implementation.
• Thanks to Yansu for its chronicle ideas.
• Thanks to Linear for its feature ideas and design ideas.
• Thanks to agentation & Cursor for its visual feedback ideas
• Thanks to CC Switch for our provider management plugin integration.
• Thanks to Nowledge Mem for our plugin integration.
• Thanks to Codex++ for our plugin integration.

License

Cradle © Wibus. Created on Apr 25, 2026.

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[^ipc-decorator]: Thanks to Innei/electron-ipc-decorator for the IPC decorator inspiration and some utility code patterns.