HQ — the team AI operating system
Your AI agents have amnesia. HQ gives them your company's memory.
HQ is an open-source team AI operating system — a shared, synced context and capability layer over Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Grok. It gives your AI coding agents your whole company's memory — knowledge, decisions, people, skills, and policies — so they stop forgetting everything every session.
We call that default failure Agent Amnesia: every session, the agent knows nothing about your stack, your conventions, or the call you made last week. You re-explain. It re-discovers. Nothing compounds. HQ is the cure.
Prefer to follow along? Start with the guided HQ tutorial — seven short videos with matching written steps and screenshots.
npx create-hqThat scaffolds your HQ and wires it into the agents you already use. Prefer the CLI directly?
npm install -g @indigoai-us/hq-cliWindows: install with the HQ desktop app or npx create-hq. Both set up HQ's five linked paths (AGENTS.md, .agents/skills, .codex/claude, .codex/output-style.md and companies/_template/.obsidian) without symlink rights. The raw release tarball extracted with tar.exe, and a git clone without symlink support, are not supported Windows install paths on their own: those five paths come out missing or as small text files, so Codex finds no AGENTS.md. After either one, run hq rescue --hq-root <absolute path to your HQ folder> to repair them.
- Agent, day one → asks "who owns billing in our codebase?" and has no idea.
npx create-hq→ HQ indexes the company: repos, decisions, people, skills.- Same question, now → "
services/billing— Sarah's team, see ADR-014, last touched in PR #482." It knows your whole company.
- Shared context layer — one place for your company's knowledge, decisions, and people, read by your agents automatically and synced across the team.
- Skills & workers — reusable capabilities and specialized agents you build once and share, instead of re-deriving them every session.
- Policies — durable rules that travel with the company so every agent obeys them.
- Packs — rich add-ons ship as
@indigoai-us/hq-pack-*packages.
The more org memory accumulates in HQ, the smarter your agents get — and the higher the cost of starting over somewhere else. The memory is both the moat and the marketing. Read the thesis: Context is the moat.
- Guided HQ tutorial — https://www.hqforwork.com/getting-started/tutorials/install-hq-macos?source=hq_core_readme
- Docs — https://docs.hq.computer
- Agent Amnesia (the anti-pattern HQ solves) — https://www.hqforwork.com/agent-amnesia
- Manifesto — https://www.hqforwork.com/manifesto
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