The best developer tools do not feel like tools, they feel like your workflow got smarter overnight.
OpenTag is trying to do that for agents: run inside GitHub and Slack, retain event metadata, track state transitions.
Still early. But the idea is right.
Monica Cheng (@MeredithCheng22)
We’ve been working on something new: OpenTag 🔥 open-source @ agent mentions for GitHub, Slack, and beyond.
If the idea resonates with you, a ⭐ would mean a lot:
github.com/amplifthq/opentag
The idea is simple: AI agents should be able to join the work where it already happens.
Instead of copying a GitHub issue, PR, or Slack discussion into another chat window, you should be able to tag an agent directly in the thread, let it work with the right tools and context, and get progress, results, changed files, or even a PR back in the same place.
We built OpenTag around an open, auditable dispatch layer: a mention becomes a normalized event, routed only to an explicitly bound local runner.
This is more than parsing an @ mention. We’re thinking about repo bindings, local execution, isolated branches, callbacks, leases, audit history, and making different agent runtimes interchangeable without hiding what’s happening behind a black box.
OpenTag is still an early v0, but we’re sharing it now because we want the direction to be shaped in the open.
If you want to help make “tag an agent into the work” an open protocol rather than a closed feature, we’d love your feedback.
Video
— https://nitter.net/MeredithCheng22/status/2069869493992501276#m