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Munder Difflin open-sources local-first agent harness that runs encrypted workflow clones on your laptop
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Munder Difflin is an MIT-licensed agent harness that wraps your existing agent CLI, captures your workflow and tooling, and runs encrypted clones of individual team members that message each other to hand off work.
If the clone model works as described, a single engineer could wake up to PRs reviewed, blockers resolved, and specs drafted overnight by agents that share their personal context and standards. The local-first, E2E-encrypted architecture is the key differentiator from cloud-hosted agent platforms, but the entire pitch rests on a single source with no independent corroboration.
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Each clone runs as a node on its owner's laptop, wrapping an existing agent CLI with local keys and local context that never leave the machine.
Clone-to-clone messages use X25519 / AES-256-GCM encryption, so intermediaries see only ciphertext while plaintext exists only inside each node.
A paid Cloud + Network license moves clones to dedicated sandbox VMs for 24/7 operation, while the core app remains free and MIT-licensed.
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