Your own agent control plane. On your own machine.

What you get

Two containers come up on docker compose up: a Postgres 16 + pgvector store, and a FastAPI control plane. First-boot bootstrap creates your single-user org, provisions Alfred, mints a 365-day Personal Access Token, and writes a ready-to-paste Claude Code config to your host filesystem.

• Alfred. The meta-agent. Runs on claude-opus-4-6 by default. Deploys other agents via tool calls, reads context from your prompt, drives Powerloom primitives without a UI.
• Docker-local MCP spawner. Alfred can deploy MCP server containers on your machine (echo, files, postgres, slack) with the same image-build path as the enterprise edition's Terraform deploys. No AWS required.
• Claude Code as client. The powerloom-mcp stdio server exposes 12 tools for session coordination, the project tracker, agent listing, and invocation. Ready to paste into CC's .mcp.json after the first up.
• Single-tenant. No multi-user RBAC, no billing, no super-admin surface. One OrgAdmin. One Anthropic key. Your data, your process.

Quick start

Full walkthrough at the setup guide. The short version:

git clone https://github.com/shanerlevy-debug/powerloom-home.git
cd powerloom-home
cp .env.home.example .env.home
# edit: POWERLOOM_HOME_EMAIL + ANTHROPIC_API_KEY

docker compose -f docker-compose.home.yml --env-file .env.home up -d --build
python scratch/home_init.py --write
python scratch/home_init.py --byok-anthropic sk-ant-api03-...

# paste home_data/.mcp.json into ~/.claude/mcp.json
# open Claude Code, paste home_data/cc-prompt.md as first message
# talk to Alfred

Who this is for

• Developers building with agents. You want a governed control plane for your agent work, not a collection of scripts. Local-first, hackable, open.
• Claude Code power users. You've already got CC in your workflow. Adding Alfred + MCP templates makes CC materially more useful for agent orchestration.
• Privacy-conscious operators. You don't want your agent traffic going through a third party's control plane. Home mode runs entirely on localhost; only Alfred's invocations touch Anthropic.
• Contributors and hackers. ELv2 lets you modify, self-host, and fork. The enterprise features you'd never see in a permissive-license repo are here, minus the SaaS-specific bits.

Next steps