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TinyAGI (formerly TinyClaw) is a MIT-licensed multi-agent, multi-team orchestrator for the one-person company: isolated role agents across Discord, WhatsApp, and Telegram, a TinyOffice web portal, and a SQLite work queue, which rose to 3.6k stars in seven weeks and then went quiet at the end of March 2026. Facts below verified as of 2026-09-13.

TinyAGI is the control-plane category’s first stall record, and its trajectory (viral launch, five months of silence, Paperclip absorbing the audience) is the consolidation signal this section will keep citing.

What it is
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A 24/7 assistant runtime that runs multiple teams of agents collaborating through chain execution and fan-out, each agent in an isolated workspace, coordinated through a SQLite queue with atomic transactions, retry logic, and dead-letter management. The TinyOffice web portal covers chat, agents, teams, tasks, logs, and settings, a live TUI dashboard visualizes teams, and providers include Claude, Codex, and any OpenAI or Anthropic-compatible endpoint with per-provider key storage. It began life as jlia0’s TinyClaw, a tiny Claude Code wrapper for a 24/7 personal assistant, and grew the multi-team story before renaming to TinyAGI in the TinyAGI organization.

Status
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Stalled, kept here as the record. Created 2026-02-09, last release v0.0.20 on 2026-03-26, last push 2026-03-30, with 3,614 stars, 507 forks, and 75 open issues accumulating since (stall unchanged when re-checked 2026-09-13). The original TinyClaw launch thread got 1 point on HN, so its growth was pure word of mouth in the one-person-company wave. Five months of silence while Paperclip reached 80k stars in the same window is the whole story: the audience consolidated on the bigger, faster-moving control plane.

Strengths
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  • The team model (chain execution, fan-out, isolated workspaces) was a genuinely small and readable implementation of what Paperclip sells as four pillars.
  • The SQLite queue with dead-letter management is the correct boring substrate for agent work dispatch.
  • TinyOffice shipped a usable dashboard early, which most micro-orchestrators never do.
  • MIT and small enough to fork if the idea fits you better than the maintainers’ pace did.

Cautions
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  • Unmaintained since March 2026; adopt as a fork-first decision, exactly like any dead tool.
  • Experimental-badged at its last release (v0.0.x), so the feature list was never finished.
  • The one-person-company framing attracted a wave of attention that a v0.0.x project could not support.
  • No successor or handoff was announced, which distinguishes this stall from an orderly sunset like Roo Code’s.

Pricing
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Free and open source under MIT. No paid tier existed.

Compared to
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  • Paperclip: the surviving control plane, an order of magnitude bigger with budgets, governance, and a cloud path; choose it over any fork of TinyAGI today.
  • Gas Town: supervision for coding agents rather than a company; a different problem with a living maintainer.
  • The unnoticed long tail (claw-empire, agent-swarm, multigent): the same idea at smaller scale, scanned this run and left in prose until one clears the bar.

Bottom line
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Recommended only as a case study and a codebase to read, the SQLite queue and team model are worth an afternoon. Not as a tool to adopt; the stall is five months old with no handoff. The disagreeable claim I will defend: TinyAGI’s death was not failure of execution but evidence the control-plane market fits exactly one open-source flagship, and every entrant below Paperclip’s gravity should now expect this entry’s fate.

Changes
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  • 2026-08-27 - Created in Control planes as the category’s first stall record, covering the TinyClaw origin and the five-month silence.

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