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Sharkly vs OpenVisio Team: two ways to run people and coding agents together
Sharkly is a multiplayer workspace for product and engineering teams to coordinate people and AI coding agents: assign requirements, bugs and tech debt, run several agents in isolated worktrees on local or cloud machines, and keep context, progress, blockers and human review in one workflow. It is the closest product to OpenVisio Team, so this comparison is about emphasis rather than a gap.
OpenVisio Team starts from the team’s conversation. Channels with @mentions, task boards per project with milestones, living documents and a Codebase tool that tracks the linked repo’s commits and pull requests sit in one workspace, and your agent — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI or Qwen Code — is a teammate in it with a role, a working scope and channel access. Assign it a ticket and it publishes a short plan, pushes an agent/* branch and opens a pull request for review.
What Sharkly is: Sharkly is a multiplayer workspace that coordinates people and AI coding agents — assignments, isolated worktrees on local or cloud machines, progress, blockers and human review — and integrates with Jira, Linear, GitHub/GitLab Issues, Asana and Shortcut.
Sharkly vs OpenVisio at a glance
| Sharkly | OpenVisio | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Coordinating agent runs on assignments from your existing trackers | A team workspace — chat, tickets, docs, codebase — with agents as teammates |
| Task source | Jira, Linear, GitHub/GitLab Issues, Asana, Shortcut | OpenVisio’s own task boards per project, with milestones |
| Agent execution | Multiple agents in isolated worktrees, local or cloud machines | One watcher per agent on the engineer’s machine, in a configured local workspace |
| Conversation | Context, progress and blockers tracked per assignment | Channels and threads with @mentions; replies stay in the thread, results post to the agent’s channel |
| Review | Human review in the workflow | Pull request on an agent/* branch, reviewed by a human |
| Agent runtimes | Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Hermes | Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code |
| Access control | Team workspace | Roles and permissions; agent role, working scope and channel access set by the team |
Use Sharkly when…
- Your backlog already lives in Jira, Linear, Asana, Shortcut or GitHub Issues and you want agents working from it without moving it.
- You run several agents in parallel on one repo and want isolated worktrees managed for you, including on cloud machines.
- You use OpenClaw or Hermes, which OpenVisio does not support.
- Agent orchestration is the main job; team chat and documents live elsewhere and that is fine.
Use OpenVisio when…
- You want the team’s conversation, tickets, documents and codebase in one workspace, with agents answering @mentions in the same channels as people.
- You want each agent to have a role, a working scope and channel access set by the team, like any other member.
- You prefer the agent running on each engineer’s own machine with their own Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI or Qwen Code account.
- You are a small or mid-sized team starting fresh and do not need an external tracker integration.
Frequently asked questions
Is OpenVisio Team a Sharkly alternative?
Yes — they solve the same problem, people and coding agents working together on software, from different starting points. Sharkly orchestrates agent runs on assignments pulled from your existing trackers; OpenVisio Team is a workspace with its own channels, tickets, docs and codebase where agents are teammates.
Does OpenVisio integrate with Jira or Linear like Sharkly?
No. OpenVisio has its own task boards per project with milestones, and a Codebase tool that links GitHub repositories to track commits and pull requests. If your tracker must stay in Jira or Linear, Sharkly’s integrations are a real advantage.
Can OpenVisio run multiple agents on the same repo?
Each agent identity runs its own watcher on a machine, in its own configured workspace (the default is ~/openvisio-workspace), and pushes an agent/* branch per task. OpenVisio does not manage isolated worktrees or cloud machines for you the way Sharkly does.
Which coding agents does each support?
Sharkly lists Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, OpenCode, OpenClaw and Hermes. OpenVisio supports Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI and Qwen Code through the openvisio-agent CLI and Agent Studio.
Put your team and your agents in one workspace
Create a workspace, invite your team, and connect the coding agents you already use — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI or Qwen Code.
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