Ptah - The Coding Orchestra
Provider-agnostic AI orchestration with intelligent workspace analysis and multi-agent workflows.
What is Ptah?
Ptah is an AI-powered development environment that brings multi-agent orchestration, workspace intelligence, and a built-in MCP server directly into your editor. It analyzes your codebase, configures specialized AI agents, and coordinates them to tackle complex development tasks.
Key Features
Multi-Agent Orchestration
Spawn multiple AI agents as headless background workers. The primary agent delegates subtasks and checks back for results — enabling true parallel multi-agent workflows.
- Built-in agents auto-detected from installed CLIs
- Custom agents configurable with your own provider and API key
- Spawn, monitor, steer, and collect results via MCP tools
Built-in MCP Server
14 API namespaces give AI agents structured access to workspace analysis, LSP diagnostics, AST parsing, file search, dependency graphs, and editor state — all in a single tool call.
Stdio MCP Server (ptah mcp-serve)
Drive Ptah from any MCP-compliant host over stdio. External orchestrators can spawn agents, monitor and steer them, and delegate whole tasks to the Team Leader harness via the session_submit tool — no bespoke integration required.
Setup Wizard
Automated 6-step workspace scanning: detects project type, frameworks, and dependencies across 13+ project types. Generates project-specific agent configurations and rules.
Plugin System
Extend with skill plugins for orchestration workflows, code review, architecture patterns, content generation, and UI/UX design. Available for Angular, React, NestJS, and NX workspaces.
Chat Interface
Native editor chat with real-time execution tree visualization, session management, cost tracking, file attachments, and streaming text reveal.
Real-time and historical analytics for cost, tokens, sessions, and agent performance. Filter by time range and export as CSV or JSON.
Orchestration Workflows
Seven workflow types — Feature, Bugfix, Refactoring, Documentation, Research, DevOps, Creative — each with specialized agent delegation and user approval checkpoints at every stage.
Authentication
Multiple auth methods supported:
- API Key — Pay-per-token with your own key (recommended)
- Provider — Third-party AI providers with hundreds of models
- Auto — Tries all configured credentials automatically
Getting Started
- Install the extension
- Sign up at ptah.live for a free 100-day Pro trial No credit card required
- Configure your AI provider in the sidebar settings
- Run the Setup Wizard to analyze your workspace
- Start chatting or use
/orchestrate for complex tasks
License
Functional Source License, Version 1.1, MIT Future License (FSL-1.1-MIT).
Every version converts to the full MIT license two years after release.
