Alike: shared context and rules for teams of coding agents

Agent teams need a shared record of intent.

Alike describes “collective intelligence for agents”: a live structure where decisions, rules, context, and reasons move with the work. Its September 20 homepage names Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Slack, Linear, and GitHub as surrounding tools.

The useful buyer question is whether the shared layer makes an agent’s next action inspectable without forcing the team to abandon its existing tools.

Buyer and workflow

The public page is aimed at teams running multiple agents and trying to preserve intent, taste, opinions, and decisions as work speeds up. It describes a live picture that agents read before writing and write back to as they work. Rules are presented as programmable objects that leave a receipt.

That suggests an operating layer rather than another chat surface. The buyer needs to understand how it handles one decision referenced by multiple agents, conflicting instructions, a rule that changes after work starts, and context visible to one project but not another.

The privacy policy says the service includes command-line and MCP integrations and connections to tools such as Slack, Linear, GitHub, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365.

First evaluation

Use a prepared repository task with two agents and one explicit rule. Record the initial decision, let each agent act, then change the rule and inspect the resulting receipt. The team should be able to answer what context each agent saw, which rule fired, why a decision changed, who can edit the shared record, and how an administrator exports or deletes the relevant data.

This is a proposed evaluation. No Alike workspace or integration was used for this profile.

Privacy and availability

The saved privacy policy was last updated September 12, 2026. It says Alike collects identity and access information for waitlist or account setup and treats customer-connected data under customer instructions where it acts as a processor or service provider. It also names the third-party connections covered by the service.

The public pages do not establish pricing, production reliability, or security certification. The homepage presents a waitlist, so availability should be treated as an observation from September 20 rather than a general product promise.

Alike is worth evaluating when agent coordination has become a context problem. The first proof is a visible, editable record showing why the next action happened.

Sources checked — September 20, 2026: Speedrun profile, Alike homepage, and Alike privacy policy.