slock

Slock (later renamed Raft) is a daemon and runtime infrastructure for AI agents. Through components like Gateway, Bridge, and Adapter, it provides runtime environments, communication channels, and lifecycle management, enabling wake-up, scheduling, and tool invocation in multi-agent collaboration. Unlike tools that treat agent interactions as transient conversations, Slock/Raft treats agents as persistent daemon processes—suitable for teams that need context isolation, persistent memory, and task orchestration.

In practice, developers configure model providers and API keys in config.yaml and start adapters via the Gateway. Compared to issue-panel-oriented tools like Multica, Slock/Raft is closer to low-level runtime, emphasizing chat-driven interaction and daemon-level agent hosting, making it suitable for building long-running agent clusters.

Currently, Slock is still in an early stage with several known pitfalls: stale configuration entries can cause API key mismatches, and child processes do not automatically inherit the parent’s HTTP proxy environment variables, leading to runtime connection failures.