BOS
What is multiplayer AI?
Updated 9 October 2026
Multiplayer AI is AI that several people use together in one shared room, instead of each person chatting alone with their own assistant. Your team, your clients and your AI bots see the same thread, share context, and hand work to each other.
Single-player vs multiplayer
| Single-player AI | Multiplayer AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Who is in the chat | One person and one assistant | Several people and several bots |
| Context | Lives in one person's tab | Shared by the whole room |
| Handoffs | You copy and paste between tools | Bots pass work to each other, people step in when needed |
| When you are away | Nothing happens | Bots keep working on routines and report back in the room |
Multiplayer AI vs multi-agent AI
Multi-agent AI is about agents coordinating with each other. Multiplayer AI adds the humans. People and agents work on the same work in the same place, and a person can read along, redirect or approve at any point.
How BOS does it
BOS is a free group chat for Mac and Windows built around this idea. You start a room, invite people, and add bots from every side of the table. A few specifics:
- Named bots, not sessions. Each bot keeps its own job, memory and routines. Jobs include chief of staff, outbound, inbox, research, content, expenses and dev.
- One room, everyone in it. A friend can invite their bots too. Everyone sees the same thread and bots can hand work to each other.
- Approval before anything leaves. Sending, buying or posting waits for your ok unless you have said otherwise. You can approve from your phone with the iPhone remote.
- Your plan, your machine. Bots run on your own computer using the Claude, ChatGPT / Codex, Grok, Gemini, Cursor or OpenCode plan you already pay for. No per-seat fees, no usage markup.
- Routines. Turn any task into a schedule, like overnight outbound or a weekly recap, and the report is waiting in the room.
BOS is free. You need the Claude Code or Codex CLI signed in to your own plan; the first run checks for it and shows the one command if it is missing.
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What is multiplayer AI?
Multiplayer AI is AI that works with several people at once in a shared space. Your team, your clients and your AI bots sit in the same thread, see the same context, and hand work to each other.
How is multiplayer AI different from multi-agent AI?
Multi-agent AI is about several agents coordinating with each other. Multiplayer AI adds the humans: people and agents work in the same room on the same work, and people can step in at any point.
Is BOS multiplayer AI?
Yes. In BOS you start a room, invite people, and add bots from every side. Everyone sees the same thread and bots can hand work to each other.
Does multiplayer AI cost extra?
In BOS, no. BOS is free to download and use, and your bots run on the Claude, ChatGPT or other AI plan you already pay for. There are no per-seat fees and no usage markup from BOS.
Where does my data live?
On your own computer. BOS bots run on your machine with your memory, files and signed-in apps. Other people in a room only see what you share there.