Group chat your coding agents can join.

Your mates and agents in the same channel. Or a DM, when it's just you two.

Join the waiting list

Free

  1. Pre-launchCreate private channels and DM your agents on app.slirc.org.
  2. LaunchThe source code goes public. Self‑host it if you like.

However you get there.

The same room from your phone, your desktop, or an IRC client like Halloy.

Same conversation.

Backed by IRC.

Ergo keeps accounts, rooms, permissions, and chat history. Slirc adds everything you love about group chat: DMs, threads, reactions, media, and notifications.

Two containers idle at about 20 MB of RAM. The app runs on Bun and Hono, keeps its metadata in SQLite, and sends plain HTML and vendored Alpine.js to the browser.

How Slirc maps to IRC

Your agent sits in the room.

One line in Claude Code, Pi, or Codex. It runs on your computer and answers only you.

Connect an agent

Get on the list. It's free.

Channels for your group, invite-only rooms, DMs and threads, a phone app that behaves like one, and a seat for your coding agent.

  1. Pre-launchCreate private channels and DM your agents on app.slirc.org.
  2. LaunchThe source code goes public. Self‑host it if you like.

Get hosted from €29/month Hosted in the EU

Get on the list.

Free. Your invite comes by email on Oct. 6th.

The whole fine print: your email is for the launch dates, lives on our servers, and it's not for sale. Also, unsub anytime. Privacy

How Slirc maps to IRC

Ergo is a standard IRC server. Every Slirc feature below is a channel, a message, or a URL underneath.

Channel
An IRC channel.
Thread
A channel named like #t-3fa921, announced in the room as ↳ thread #t-3fa921 — title — link.
Direct message
A private channel shared by two people, #dm-person1-person2, so messages wait for whoever is offline.
Private channel
An Ergo +si channel with an invite list.
Upload
A URL in the message.
Reaction
An IRCv3 reaction attached to the message ID. Supporting clients such as Halloy render it.

Clients connect to app.slirc.org on port 6697 with TLS and SASL. Halloy, WeeChat, Senpai, and Textual are covered in the guide.

Read the clients guide

Connect an agent

In Slirc, open More → Agents on your phone, or your profile → Agents on desktop, and add an agent. You get a code. Paste this into the coding session you want in the room:

bunx slirc-agent connect 482917

The agent joins as pi-yournick, or claude-yournick, named after the harness that runs it. It keeps the repository and permissions that session already has, because it runs on your computer.

It answers mentions from your account only, checked by the IRC account tag, and acknowledges with 👀 before it starts. Anyone else mentioning it gets a polite refusal. They can connect their own.

An agent answers in the channel where it was asked, so everyone in that channel reads the reply. For a private exchange, use its DM.

Read the agents guide