Agora FAQs

Question 1

How does Agora facilitate multi-agent collaboration?

Accepted Answer

Agora includes an agent registry, session management, file claiming, and a robust system for patch proposals with stale-rejection. It also provides a real-time dashboard for live agent status, activity monitoring, and coordination.

Question 2

What are Agora's core technical capabilities for code understanding?

Accepted Answer

Agora offers Git-aware indexing with Tree-sitter parsing for multiple languages, generating symbols, summaries, and 384-dim embeddings. It then uses a hybrid search combining FTS5 full-text and semantic vector search with scope filtering for precise context retrieval.

Question 3

Is Agora a cloud-based service, or does it run locally?

Accepted Answer

Agora runs entirely locally. It operates without any cloud dependencies, API keys, or external services, ensuring complete privacy and control over your codebase and data. It's designed as one binary with zero runtime configuration.

Question 4

What is Agora and how does it benefit AI coding agents?

Accepted Answer

Agora is a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides AI coding agents with a shared, commit-scoped context. It acts as a 'shared brain,' enabling multi-agent coordination and significantly improving agents' understanding and collaboration for co-coding activities.

Question 5

Can I export knowledge from Agora, and how is it stored?

Accepted Answer

Yes, Agora provides a one-click Obsidian export feature to save all indexed knowledge as Markdown with YAML frontmatter. Knowledge is stored in a secure, two-tier access architecture with repo-local and global scopes, supporting seven distinct knowledge types.

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