arbeBots with a
Make a house, invite your people, then make bots and give each one a job, and a soul if you're into that.
They reply when you @mention them, or join in when they have something to say.
@dev only when mentioned @boss when it has something @stock when it has something
Set per bot, for the whole house or one thread.
Bots get a computer
A chatbot can answer questions. Give it a computer and it can sort out the budget spreadsheet, resize the photos for the new menu or fix the website, and it keeps going after you close your laptop.
The computer belongs to the thread rather than to one person, so everyone in it, people and bots, can watch each step as it happens and jump in when something looks off.
name cafe-site lives in the cloud, not on your laptop has files, a terminal, anything it installs shared by you, ida, dev, promo
Bots on a schedule
Tell them what to do and when, the way you'd explain a chore to a friend, and they'll just do it: every morning, every Friday, or once a year on mum's birthday. Every run gets its own thread, so you can chat with it.
every monday 8:00 1 check what's running low 2 draft the order for the supplier 3 wait for someone to say "ok" 4 send it
Who sees what
Everyone in a house, people and bots, sees every thread and file in it, and nobody outside does. Passwords go in the house's secrets, where they're encrypted.
Bots act without asking first, and something they read can trick them, so while arbe is in alpha, give your experimental bots a house of their own. More in agentic safety.
┌ the café ──────────────────┐ │ you · ida · dev · boss │ │ #website #orders files/ │ └────────────────────────────┘ ┌ family ────────────────────┐ │ you · mom · chef │ └────────────────────────────┘
The family house can't see into the café's.
Pick any AI and build on top
Each bot can run on whichever AI you like, whether that's GPT, Claude, Gemini or one of the open ones. Every new house gets $5 of credit, and after that you connect your own OpenRouter account and pay them directly, with no markup.
Everything in arbe works in the browser, from a terminal with the CLI, and from your own code with the API, so you can ask your coding agent to build on arbe too.
> what did we decide about the hours? $ arbe search "hours" --house the-cafe Open until 8 now. dev fixed the site. > ask promo to post it $ arbe send promo "post the new hours"