Today I came across an article from Qubit reporting that Anthropic just released Claude Managed Agents and already got an “open-source alternative” — this project is called Multica. I started using this project last week, so I did some digging.
The headline was a bit clickbait
Qubit’s article said Multica was an “open-source instant follow-up,” but this isn’t entirely accurate. According to the project repository:
- Multica was officially created in February this year
- Claude Managed Agents was only announced in April this year
So to be precise, Multica was actually the earlier one. The April star surge did happen after Claude Managed Agents was released, though.
Some interesting observations
- This project was also developed with the help of Claude Code — wonder how Anthropic feels about that
- The founder previously created Devv.ai, an AI search engine for developers
- Currently at 13.2k stars, 1.6k forks, and growing quite fast
My take
I’d say rather than calling Multica a “budget alternative,” it represents a growing trend — everyone wants to use AI Agents more systematically. I was looking for a tool to assign tasks to agents via a kanban board, and that’s how I found Multica. Claude Managed Agents was probably released because Anthropic saw this same demand.
Media will write anything for clicks. As users, we don’t need to care too much about what the media says — actually using it is what matters. Multica is currently under active development. Compared to last week, they’ve already added an entire automation module, and the version is now 0.2.0. Looking forward to seeing it become a next-generation project management tool!
