Teams ask Reddit how to work with agents in Slack. Switch isn’t in the answers.
Paperclip and Multica pitch people and agents working as one team, and have 111.3K and 55.0K GitHub stars. Switch has 3.9K, and on Reddit only its own posts, in subreddits that get 12 and 16 visitors a week. Reddit is on page one for 35 searches teams make while putting agents into Slack, Teams and Discord. Switch is named in none of those threads, in none of the 21 live ones this month, and in 0 of 16 answers from Claude and ChatGPT.
3.9K stars
on sandbox-quantum/switch. The two closest open-source peers:
Paperclip111.3K
Multica55.0K
Switch3.9K
0 / 53
threads that name Switch: the 32 that rank on Google and the 21 live this month
ranks on Googlelive
35 searches
with a Reddit thread on page one. switchagents.ai is on page one for none of them.
#1 · 4#2–3 · 10#4–6 · 11#7–10 · 10
0 / 16
answers from Claude and ChatGPT that name Switch. Named most instead:
OpenClaw6
n8n6
Switch0
01 · Where you are
3.9K stars and a #1 on Product Hunt. Reddit has only seen your own posts, in your own subreddits.
#1Product of the Day on Product Hunt, Sep 8
1point on Hacker News, the one Switch post there
2.1Kviews on the X launch post. @switch_ai_ has 131 followers
56members in the Discord
12weekly visitors to r/switch_ai, 16 to r/flint_ai
4.6KSwitch Console installers downloaded from GitHub
Every Reddit post about Switch so far
r/switch_aiAnnouncing the Switch AI Hackathon: Flip the SwitchOct 21 · 1 up · 0 comments
r/hackathonAnnouncing the Switch AI Hackathon: Flip the SwitchOct 21 · 1 up · 0 comments
r/switch_aiIntroducing Switch Trust and Switch ROIOct 19 · 1 up · 1 comment
r/flint_aiSwitch hit #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt [open source]Sep 9 · 5 up · 0 comments
r/flint_aiSwitch is live on Product Hunt: bring any AI agent into Slack, Teams, Discord [open source]Sep 8 · 8 up · 0 comments
r/flint_aiWe shipped Switch: free infra so your AI agents join your team in Slack, Teams, or DiscordAug 25 · 7 up · 0 comments
6 posts, 1 comment between them. They went to r/flint_ai and r/switch_ai, where almost nobody reads, and to r/hackathon. The only other thread is a news repost in r/artificial, “SandboxAQ releases Switch for shared AI-agent workspaces” (6 upvotes, 6 comments). The people Switch is for read r/ClaudeCode (1.2M a week), r/selfhosted (546K) and r/AI_Agents (292K).
02 · Peers
The open-source apps for agents at work. Paperclip went from zero to 111.3K stars in eight months.
Paperclipon GitHub since Mar 2026
111.3K starsThe open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work
Multicaon GitHub since Jan 2026
55.0K starsMake humans and AI agents work as one team
Vibe Kanbanon GitHub since Jun 2025
28.6K starsCoordinate Claude Code, Codex and other agents
r/ClaudeCodeVibe Kanban is now open source
Kortixon GitHub since Oct 2024
20.4K starsMultiplayer AI agents for a company
Switchon GitHub since Jul 2026
3.9K starsAI teammates in Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram and Mattermost
Agents in a chat app are already normalOpenClaw (394K stars) and Hermes Agent (261K) put a personal agent in Telegram, Discord and Slack. r/hermesagent, 140K visitors a week, argues which chat app to run an agent in: 4 threads and 273 comments this month. What those threads don’t have is the team version, several people and several agents in one channel. That’s Switch.
03 · Live threads
21 threads this month, 976 comments. Switch comes up in none.
0 / 21
Teams describe what Switch does, in their own words. A colleague can’t pick up where your Claude Code session left off. Two engineers book a meeting to share what their agents did. Someone has become “a human API between Slack and Claude”. A company outgrew one person’s OpenClaw. The answers they get are tmux, markdown files and meetings.
“I need her to pick up where I left off nd there is no clean way to do that.”
r/AgentsOfAI · How to share a Claude Code session with a teammate · Reddit #1 for “share claude code session with team”
“Two engineers working in two different tasks and need help from each other, they need to setup a meeting to share what’s the problem, what has been done so far and why.”
r/ClaudeCode · Sharing projects context in the team · 35 comments
“Did you start on OC and switch to something else? Why?”
r/openclaw · Anyone running OpenClaw for a whole team or company? · 48 comments
“Bots that need to coordinate do it in a private chat.”
r/AI_Agents · When two coding agents talk over an open channel… · posted today
The last one is Switch’s design: a room per piece of work, the right agents in it, a person who signs off. It was written about a setup somebody built by hand.
Asking for it
r/openclaw 2048Oct 15open
Anyone running OpenClaw for a whole team or company? How’s it going?Switch absentNamed: OpenClaw 4, Hermes 1
r/claude 6438Oct 7open
Serious work question: I’ve become a human API between Slack and Claude. Can I automate myself out of the loop?Switch absentNamed: Claude in Slack 1
r/AI_Agents 1128Oct 26open
Has anyone actually tried getting their AI agent to collaborate with someone else’s AI agent?Switch absentNo tools named yet
r/AI_Agents 834Nov 5open
When two coding agents talk over an open channel, they get stuck in a 40-turn polite agreement loopSwitch absentNo tools named yet
r/ClaudeCode 3960Oct 27open
What our 6 person team actually pays for agents and review each monthSwitch absentNo tools named yet
r/ClaudeCode 7754Oct 11open
How do you guys orchestrate multiple coding agents for software engineering?Switch absentNamed: tmux 1, Devin 1
04 · Search
The 35 searches. A Reddit thread on page one for each, top three on 14.
1Reddit thread, Google position
upvotes
comments
archived, no new comments
| Search | Google position 1–10 | Top ranking Reddit thread | In the thread |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agents in your chat appwhat Switch Rooms does · 17 searches | |||
| self hosted ai agent slack | 1 | r/Slack · a maker’s own postBuilt a self-hosted AI assistant for Slack with its own browser and a task scheduler | Switch absentno tools named |
| claude code slack alternative | 1 | r/LLMDevs · a maker’s own postOpenTag: ur AI coworkers for Slack, open source alternative to claude tag | Switch absentno tools named |
| claude code discord bot | 3 | r/SideProject · a maker’s own postI made a Discord bot that lets me use Claude Code from my phone | Switch absentno tools named |
| claude code telegram | 3 | r/ClaudeAI · a maker’s own postClaudegram: Claude Code anywhere using Telegram | Switch absentNamed: OpenClaw 1, n8n 1 |
| discord ai agent | 3 | r/Discord_BotsPlatform to generate Agent AI on Discord? | Switch absentno tools named |
| telegram ai agent | 3 | r/SideProject · a maker’s own postYour own AI agent on Telegram in 2 minutes. Without learning a single line of DevOps | Switch absentno tools named |
| hermes agent discord | 4 | r/hermesagentSwitched from telegram to discord | Switch absentNamed: Hermes 3, OpenClaw 1 |
| slack ai agent open source | 5 | r/Slack · a maker’s own postBuilt a self-hosted AI assistant for Slack with its own browser and a task scheduler | Switch absentno tools named |
| ai agents in slack | 6 | r/AI_Agents · a maker’s own postI built a Slack for AI agents, so that you can really “co-work” with them | Switch absentno tools named |
| cursor slack agent | 6 | r/cursorCursor for Slack integration | Switch absentno tools named |
| microsoft teams ai agent | 6 | r/microsoft365Cheapest way to build an AI agent for Microsoft Teams meetings? | Switch absentno tools named |
| ai teammate slack | 7 | r/SlackAnyone using an AI coworker in Slack? Looking for recommendations | Switch absentNamed: Glean 3 |
| codex slack | 8 | r/codexInstall Slack into Codex? | Switch absentno tools named |
| openclaw slack | 8 | r/SlackHave many people here been using OpenClaw -- to do slack automations | Switch absentNamed: OpenClaw 3 |
| claude code slack integration | 9 | r/ClaudeAIClaude Code in Slack signals shift to collaboration-first AI coding | Switch absentNamed: n8n 1 |
| ai agent slack | 9 | r/AI_Agents · a maker’s own postI built a Slack for AI agents, so that you can really “co-work” with them | Switch absentno tools named |
| claude code slack | 10 | r/ClaudeCode/install-slack-app is a joke? | Switch absentno tools named |
| People and agents on one teamshared context, many agents · 8 searches | |||
| share claude code session with team | 1 | r/AgentsOfAIHow to share a Claude Code session with a teammate mid project? Kinda stuck here | Switch absentNamed: tmux 1 |
| claude code team collaboration | 2 | r/ClaudeCodeHow do you collaborate on a shared Claude Code setup across a team without losing track of changes? | Switch absentno tools named |
| run multiple claude code agents | 2 | r/ClaudeAIHow do people run multiple Claude Code sessions? | Switch absentNamed: tmux 3, Conductor 2 |
| open source agent orchestration | 3 | r/LocalLLaMABest Agent Orchestration platform + opensource Model combo? | Switch absentNamed: OpenClaw 1, n8n 1, LangGraph 1, CrewAI 1 |
| agent orchestration platform | 4 | r/LocalLLaMABest Agent Orchestration platform + opensource Model combo? | Switch absentNamed: OpenClaw 1, n8n 1, LangGraph 1, CrewAI 1 |
| claude code for teams | 5 | r/ClaudeAIClaude Code now available for Claude Teams! | Switch absentno tools named |
| manage ai agents at work | 8 | r/AI_AgentsHow are you managing multiple AI agents in your workflow right now? | Switch absentNamed: Paperclip 1 |
| ai agents for teams | 10 | r/AI_AgentsI’ve been building AI agents (and teams) for months. Here’s why “start with a team” is the worst advice in the space right now. | Switch absentNamed: OpenClaw 1 |
| Alternatives people comparethe peers above · 4 searches | |||
| paperclip alternative | 1 | r/PiCodingAgentAlternatives to Paperclip | Switch absentNamed: Multica 1 |
| multica alternative | 2 | r/LocalLLMOpen-source alternative to Claude’s managed agents… but you run it yourself | Switch absentNamed: Multica 2 |
| openclaw alternative | 4 | r/openclawOpenClaw alternatives - are any of them actually worth it? | Switch absentNamed: OpenClaw 9, n8n 1 |
| paperclip ai agents | 4 | r/aisolobusinessesIs Paperclip AI actually useful or just another overhyped automation tool? Anyone here using it in production? | Switch absentNamed: Paperclip 13, OpenClaw 1 |
| Trust and ROIwhat Switch Trust and Switch ROI do · 6 searches | |||
| ai agent red teaming open source | 3 | r/PentestingOpen source AI Red Teaming tools | Switch absentNamed: Promptfoo 1, Garak 1 |
| agent observability open source | 3 | r/LangChainWhat are the best open source LLM observability platforms/packages? | Switch absentNamed: Langfuse 3, LangGraph 1 |
| ai agent roi | 4 | r/artificialAre AI agents actually giving people ROI yet, or just saving time? | Switch absentNamed: OpenClaw 2 |
| ai agent cost tracking | 5 | r/LLMDevsHow do you track what your AI agents actually cost per workflow? | Switch absentno tools named |
| mcp security scanner | 8 | r/mcp · a maker’s own postBuilt a tool that scans MCP servers for security issues, curious what people think | Switch absentno tools named |
| openclaw for teams | 8 | r/crowdstrikeWhat Security Teams Need to Know About OpenClaw, the AI Super Agent | Switch absentno tools named |
Makers’ launch posts already hold these slots7 of the 32 ranking threads are a builder showing their own project, and they rank for 9 searches. OpenTag, an “open source alternative to claude tag”, is #1 for claude code slack alternative with 0 upvotes and 2 comments. A self-hosted Slack assistant with 1 comment is #1 for self hosted ai agent slack, a search where your own repo sits at #5. Posts this thin hold #1 because nothing better has been written. A better post can take the slot.
05 · Your own name
Search “switch ai” and a data-center company comes first. switchagents.ai isn’t on page one.
yours
switchagentsTen results on switching insurance and real-estate agentsswitchagents.ai: no
switch ai reviewProduct Hunt #1, then Nintendo Switch game reviewsswitchagents.ai: no
switch console aiNintendo Switch 2, all tenswitchagents.ai: no
switch ai agentsProduct Hunt #1, your repo #2. Reddit #6 is another tool: “Handoff: switch AI agents mid-project”switchagents.ai: no
“Switch” is shared with a data-center company, four other “Switch AI” apps and a games console. Every post we write says Switch by SandboxAQ and names sandbox-quantum/switch, so readers, Google and the AI assistants can tell which Switch is meant.
06 · AI answers
What the AI answers say. Switch, in none of the 16.
Tools named across 16 answers: the same 8 questions to Claude and to ChatGPT
ClaudeChatGPT
| Question a team asks | Claude | ChatGPT | Named instead |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bring our Claude Code and Codex agents into the team’s SlackSwitch Rooms | 0 | 0 | Pantalk, Cogent, ChannelGate, a bridge you build |
| Share coding agents in Slack or Discord, with the same contextSwitch Rooms | 0 | 0 | Claude Code, Codex and Cursor in Slack, Devin, AgentConnect |
| Self-hosted alternatives to Claude Tag or Slack’s own agentsopen source | 0 | 0 | OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Onyx, n8n, Mattermost |
| AI teammates in Microsoft Teams, self-hosted, any modelTeams | 0 | 0 | OpenClaw, Pepe Agent, Microsoft 365 Agents SDK |
| Open-source platforms for people and agents as one teamthe category | 0 | 0 | OpenAgents, Buzz, Multica, LangGraph, CrewAI |
| OpenClaw alternatives for a whole team or companyfor teams | 0 | 0 | n8n, Dify, Dust, Glean, Copilot Studio |
| Coordinate Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode with teammatescoding agents | 0 | 0 | Vibe Kanban, Claude Squad, Conductor, worktrees |
| Scan, red-team and monitor agents before and after launchSwitch Trust | 0 | 0 | garak, promptfoo, PyRIT, Langfuse |
“There’s no mature open-source project that runs both Claude Code and Codex in Slack for a whole team.”
Claude · bring our Claude Code and Codex agents into the team’s Slack
“I’d avoid personal-assistant projects like OpenClaw for this. They’re built for a single user with broad machine access, not for a shared team channel.”
Claude · same question
“I’d start with Pantalk for a self-hosted, open-source setup supporting both Claude Code and Codex.”
ChatGPT · same question, after searching the web
Claude describes Switch and says it doesn’t exist. ChatGPT searched the web and found Pantalk, Cogent and Block’s Buzz, not Switch. Assistants pick up which tools to name from what developers write in public, and Reddit threads are a large part of that.
07 · Subreddits
Where it happens. r/AI_Agents, r/ClaudeAI and r/Slack hold 12 of the 35 page-one slots.
Page-one Reddit slots by subreddit
open threadarchived+14 more subreddits
Where the 21 live threads are
r/AI_Agents ×8r/ClaudeCode ×6r/ClaudeAI ×2r/aiagentsr/automationr/clauder/openclawr/Slack
Weekly visitors, and the rule that matters
r/ClaudeAI2.1MProjects built with or for Claude, by you, described in detail
r/ClaudeCode1.2MQuick shares go in the weekly showcase. Standalone posts explain what was built and what was learned
r/selfhosted546KPromoted apps must be production ready, with docs
r/codex399KComment karma in r/codex decides how a post is ranked
r/SideProject354K
r/AI_Agents292KLinks go in the comments. About 1 in 10 posts can be your own
r/BestGitHubRepos231KYour own repo is fine. Say you work on it
r/AgentsOfAI224KDetailed text in the post, links in the comments
r/opencode161K
r/opensource148KUnder 10% promotional, with the Promotional flair
r/devops117KSelf-promotion in the weekly thread, affiliation disclosed
r/mcp46KSelf-promotion with disclosure. No astroturfing
r/openclaw30KOpen-source projects useful to OpenClaw users, GitHub links only
r/Slack29KNo advertisements
r/switch_ai12Your subreddit
08 · The plan
What we’d do. A launch week for stars, then the threads where teams pick their setup.
Weeks 1–2Launch week: one post written for each subreddit, all inside 48 hours, plus the best hackathon projects
Month 1The live threads below and the 27 open threads that rank
Months 2–3New posts written to rank where Reddit’s result is thin, and new threads as they open
Day 90Re-measure the baseline
Launch week, one post per subredditExposure
- r/ClaudeCode: Claude Code agents and three people in one Slack channel for a week. What it built, what broke, what we’d change.a detailed standalone post, as rule 5 asks · 1.2M a week
- r/selfhosted: run Switch on your own box with Docker Compose, Mattermost included.production ready, with docs, as the sub requires · 546K
- r/opensource and r/BestGitHubRepos: the repo itself, from someone who works on it.Paperclip’s two r/BestGitHubRepos posts: 49 and 48 upvotes
- r/codex, r/opencode, r/cursor: your Codex, OpenCode or Cursor agent as a teammate in a shared channel.399K · 161K · 73K
- r/AI_Agents and r/AgentsOfAI: what we learned putting people and agents in one room. Text in the post, link in the comments.as both subs ask · 292K · 224K
- r/SideProject: the best Flip the Switch hackathon projects, each as its own post.the hackathon ends Nov 7
Stars that land on the same day or two are what put a repo on GitHub Trending, which then sends traffic of its own.
Live threads to answer nowExposure
- r/openclaw: Anyone running OpenClaw for a whole team or company?asks what people moved to, and why
- r/claude: I’ve become a human API between Slack and Claude64 upvotes · the same post in r/ClaudeAI
- r/ClaudeCode: Sharing projects context in the team35 comments · shared context per room
- r/AI_Agents: Getting your agent to work with someone else’s agent?agent-to-agent, with a person approving
- r/AI_Agents: Two coding agents stuck in a polite loopposted today · rooms, roles and a human who closes
- r/ClaudeCode: What our 6 person team pays for agents60 comments · Switch ROI
- r/Slack: My boss installed Claude in Slack. Can it read DMs?an agent only sees the rooms it belongs to
Threads that rank, and new posts to rankRanking
- r/AgentsOfAI: Share a Claude Code session with a teammateshare claude code session with team · Reddit #1 · 10 comments
- r/ClaudeCode: A shared Claude Code setup across a teamclaude code team collaboration · Reddit #2
- r/ClaudeAI: How do people run multiple Claude Code sessions?run multiple claude code agents · Reddit #2 · 72 comments
- r/PiCodingAgent: Alternatives to Paperclip and r/LocalLLM: the Multica threadpaperclip alternative · Reddit #1 · multica alternative · Reddit #2
- r/Slack: Anyone using an AI coworker in Slack?ai teammate slack · Reddit #7 · Glean named, nothing open source
- New threads written to rank where Reddit’s result is thin: a post with 1 or 2 comments, or an archived one. Each names Switch by SandboxAQ, with no link.self hosted ai agent slack · Reddit #1 · claude code slack alternative · Reddit #1 · ai agents in slack · Reddit #6, archived
Before launch week: four fixes on your side
Ask for the starThe README never asks. Visits from Reddit land there first, so one line near the top turns more of them into stars.
Fix the Discord badgeThe README’s Discord link is an expired invite. The one on switchagents.ai works.
Say the full name“Switch by SandboxAQ” in the README’s first line, the repo description and the site title, to match what the posts say.
Tag the linksUTM tags on links to switchagents.ai, so signups from Reddit show up in your analytics. We track stars and Console downloads on GitHub.
House rules
Help firstEach answer solves the person’s problem. Switch comes up as part of the setup, not as a pitch.
Say it’s yoursLaunch posts come from a team account that says who it is, for example one for your developer advocate, written and posted by us. Persona accounts never post the repo as a find.
Pace20 posts per account a month, about 10 on Ranking, from accounts with posting history.
Stay out ofr/Slack and r/ExperiencedDevs, which ban ads, and r/sysadmin outside threads where a vendor is asked in.
The baseline we re-measure at day 90
MeasureNowDay 90
GitHub stars on sandbox-quantum/switch3,916re-measure
Switch Console installers downloaded from GitHub4,603re-measure
Open ranking threads naming Switch0/27re-measure
Live threads naming Switch0/21re-measure
Claude and ChatGPT answers naming Switch0/16re-measure
09 · Proof
Our posts get seen. 9.5M views across 9 posts.
9.5M views
across 9 of our posts, from Reddit’s own post insights
7.5M621K292K254K218K211K207K166K71K
166K views
on a post with 29 upvotes. Upvotes undercount how many people read a post.
Views166,000
Upvotes29
44.6% US
of views on the 292K post came from the US, and 41.3% on the 71K one. The UK and Canada came next, at 6–7% each.
US 44.6%UK 7.0%Canada 6.4%Other 42.0%
10 · Plans
Pick the goal, then the number of accounts. For stars, Exposure or Mix. We recommend starting with 3 accounts.
Exposure
Stars, traffic and signups for stars
More developers see Switch, star the repo and install Console.
Account 120 posts
Account 220 posts
+ more accounts as needed
- Accounts
- 2 minimum, more as needed
- Posts
- 20 per account a month
- Where
- The launch posts in 08, then live threads as they open: agents in Slack and Discord, teams sharing agents, OpenClaw for a team.
Measured at day 90GitHub stars 3,916Console installs 4,603Live threads naming Switch 0/21
Ranking
Google and AI answers SEO & AEO
Switch inside the threads Google ranks and AI answers draw on.
Account 110 posts
Account 210 posts
+ more accounts as needed
- Accounts
- 2 minimum, more as needed
- Posts
- About 10 per account a month, each one targeted
- Where
- Replies in the 27 open threads that rank, plus new posts written to rank where Reddit’s result is weak. New posts name Switch without linking to it.
Measured at day 90Ranking threads naming Switch 0/27AI answers 0/16
Mix
Half and half
Half the posts for stars and signups, half for ranking.
Account 120 posts
Account 220 posts
+ more accounts as needed
- Accounts
- 2 minimum, more as needed
- Posts
- 20 per account a month, 10 for each goal
- Where
- Both lists, split evenly on every account.
Measured at day 90GitHub stars 3,916Live threads 0/21Ranking threads 0/27AI answers 0/16
post for stars, traffic and signupstargeted post for rankingno post
20 / account / month
post that stays upremoved by moderators, then replaced
Some posts get removed. Out of 20, around 3 can be. Each removed post is replaced with a new one, so every account still delivers its full count for the month.
Posts by number of accounts
AccountsExposure & MixRanking
2 accountsMinimum40posts a month20posts a month
3 accountsWe recommend starting here60posts a month30posts a month
+Each added accountWhen you need more reach+20posts a month+10posts a month