Your First Agent Team in 5 Minutes

Install Coral, launch three coding agents, and watch them coordinate on a real task. No workflow framework, no extra glue code — just orchestrated execution.

What You'll Build

By the end of this guide, you'll have a three-agent coding team — an orchestrator, a developer, and a code reviewer — adding a feature to a codebase. The orchestrator assigns work, the developer builds it, and the reviewer checks it. All coordinated through Coral's message board.

Grab the desktop app from coralai.ai or install the open-source Python edition:

Coral starts a web dashboard at http://localhost:8420. Open it in your browser — you'll see an empty workspace ready for agents.

Click +New in the sidebar and select Agent Team. Give your team a name and add three agents:

• Orchestrator — "You coordinate the team. Decompose tasks, assign work to specialists, and track progress."
• Developer — "You write code. Implement features assigned by the orchestrator."
• Reviewer — "You review code. Check the developer's work for bugs, style issues, and edge cases."

Hit Launch. Coral will:

1. Spawn each agent in its own isolated git worktree
2. Subscribe all three to a shared coral-board message board
3. Send each agent its behavior prompt
4. Show them in the dashboard sidebar as a team

Select the orchestrator in the sidebar and type your instruction in the command input:

The orchestrator reads your instruction and starts coordinating:

From the dashboard, you can see everything in real time:

• Sidebar — each agent's status, current task, and last activity time
• Terminal view — click any agent to see their full terminal output
• Message board — the right panel shows the team's coral-board conversation

When the reviewer posts their feedback, the developer picks it up and addresses it. The orchestrator tracks it all and reports back to you when the feature is complete.

In about 5 minutes, three agents:

• Received role-specific behavior prompts
• Communicated through coral-board with cursor-based, exactly-once delivery
• Worked in isolated git worktrees (no file conflicts)
• Coordinated a build-review-fix cycle without you managing each step

You gave one instruction to the orchestrator. The orchestrator handled the rest.

What's Next

Scale up. Add more agents mid-session — a QA engineer, a documentation writer, a security reviewer. New agents join the board and get full conversation history instantly.

Sleep and wake. Pause your team when you're done for the day. Wake them tomorrow and they pick up exactly where they left off — prompts, board subscriptions, and message history all preserved.

Schedule jobs. Set up cron-style schedules to run agents on recurring tasks — nightly test runs, weekly dependency updates, daily code reviews.