How to use Open Pet Office: what you can do with it

4 use cases

• Split a complex coding task across a supervised agent team

  Let a supervisor pet plan dependencies, dispatch up to four workers, and review results in isolated workspaces.

  • REPO Gu-kai-lei/Open-Pet-Office
  • Codex
  • Software and DevOps
  • Intermediate
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  Using the Open-Pet-Office repo on Windows, start a 分工 Mission in the desktop app for the project at <project path>. Report the final supervisor review shown on the task card, and verify that a dependency plan was shown and confirmed before any worker ran.

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• Track live Codex tasks from a floating desktop pet

  See running, waiting, and finished Codex tasks on a pet card without hunting for the original window.

  • REPO Gu-kai-lei/Open-Pet-Office
  • Codex
  • Software and DevOps
  • Beginner
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  Using the Open-Pet-Office repo, run the Windows portable app while a Codex task is active in <project name>. Report what the pet task card shows for that task, and verify that the bell task center lists it under 进行中.

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• Give each pet agent a DeepSeek or GLM model via OpenCodex

  Route third-party models into Codex and pick a different model for each pet in the team.

  • REPO Gu-kai-lei/Open-Pet-Office
  • Codex
  • Software and DevOps
  • Intermediate
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  For the Open-Pet-Office repo, configure OpenCodex with a DeepSeek or GLM provider, then select that model for one worker pet in <project name>. Report the chosen model name, and verify it appears in the pet's model selector.

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• Clone, test, and run Open Pet Office from source

  Get a working development build and run the test suite before changing the app.

  • REPO Gu-kai-lei/Open-Pet-Office
  • Software and DevOps
  • Intermediate
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  Clone https://github.com/Gu-kai-lei/Open-Pet-Office into <target folder>, run `npm install` and then `npm test`. Report the test outcome, and verify that the run finishes without installation errors before you attempt `npm start`.

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Quick start with Open Pet Office

1. Check you have what it needs: Windows 10 or 11 (the README says macOS and Linux are not yet supported); Codex CLI 0.155 or later, installed and signed in on the same machine; The portable build `Pet-Office-*-portable.exe` from the GitHub Releases page.
2. Open Gu-kai-lei/Open-Pet-Office on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. Download Pet-Office-*-portable.exe from the Releases page and run it.
4. Confirm Codex CLI 0.155 or later is installed and signed in on this machine.
5. Hover over the supervisor pet, click the input icon, and turn on 分工 for the task.
6. Select the project, the Agent, and the model for each pet, then review and confirm the generated plan.

These steps come from our top use case, Split a complex coding task across a supervised agent team, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

Using the Deduped MCP, get the setup steps for Gu-kai-lei/Open-Pet-Office

claude mcp add --transport http deduped https://dedupedai.com/mcp

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About this repo

• Who it is forWindows developers who already use Codex and want to see, steer, or split larger coding tasks across several agents and models.
• Why it is hot103 stars, launched 37 days ago
• LanguageJavaScript
• Sourcegithub.com/Gu-kai-lei/Open-Pet-Office · Back to Hot repos

Requirements

• Windows 10 or 11 (the README says macOS and Linux are not yet supported)
• Codex CLI 0.155 or later, installed and signed in on the same machine
• The portable build `Pet-Office-*-portable.exe` from the GitHub Releases page

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