--- title: 14-year-old creates tool for AI agents to band together... description: A 14-year-old Austrian developer, Stanislaus Hees, built Autark, a tool that lets AI agents work together as an autonomous team without constant prompting. A... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/14-year-old-creates-tool-for-ai-agents-to-band-together-like-a-team-sl4ikikek twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 14-year-old creates tool for AI agents to band together like a team | daily.dev og:description: A 14-year-old Austrian developer, Stanislaus Hees, built Autark, a tool that lets AI agents work together as an autonomous team without constant prompting. A... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/14-year-old-creates-tool-for-ai-agents-to-band-together-like-a-team-sl4ikikek og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SL4IKIkek.png og:image:alt: 14-year-old creates tool for AI agents to band together like a team og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 14-year-old creates tool for AI agents to band together like a team **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A 14-year-old Austrian developer, Stanislaus Hees, built Autark, a tool that lets AI agents work together as an autonomous team without constant prompting. A manager agent delegates tasks from an inbox to other agents, which act on schedules, timers or events rather than waiting for prompts. It can be set up to connect to OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI and Kimi Code through their CLI tools, plus local models. Autark has no sandboxing, approval prompts or permission gates, and in live test runs agents given a vague request reached real repositories, backups, SSH keys and .env files within minutes. It's open source on GitHub under an Apache license. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is Autark and how does it let AI agents work without constant prompting? Autark is an open-source tool built by 14-year-old developer Stanislaus Hees that organizes AI agents into a team coordinated by a manager agent. Users submit tasks to an inbox, and agents are woken by a schedule, timer, new task, message, or event rather than waiting for a prompt. It connects to OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, Kimi Code, and local models. _Anyone weighing autonomous multi-agent setups can track tools like Autark and their tradeoffs on daily.dev._ ### Does Autark sandbox AI agents or restrict their system access? No, Autark has no sandboxing, no approval prompts, and no permission gates, and agents run with the full privileges of the machine's user. In live test runs, agents given a vague request reached real repositories, backups, SSH keys, and .env files within minutes, with one agent even changing a file's permissions. The developer himself says it is not suitable for unattended access to sensitive systems. _Developers evaluating agent frameworks can compare security tradeoffs like these on daily.dev before granting system access._ ### How does Autark protect stored passwords and secrets? Autark encrypts stored passwords and keys and references them using IDs that keep the actual values out of prompts. Its servers don't store user data; a meeting server relays encrypted traffic between devices. The project is fully open source on GitHub under an Apache license, including the meeting server code, so it can be self-hosted and modified. _Those deciding how to handle secrets in agent workflows can follow approaches like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Your AI Agent Now Acts Without Being Asked. 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