Your standup, run by a local brain
Arbiter's local brain can support the operations loop: a morning briefing across projects, a tool-calling chat, and configured dispatch to coding agents with policy-controlled approvals and stopping controls.
The expensive part of working with AI agents isn’t the coding. It’s the supervision: deciding what to do next, kicking off the right job, checking whether the last one finished, noticing the one that wedged. That overhead doesn’t need a frontier model. It needs a model that’s always on, local, and cheap.
That’s what Arbiter’s local brain does now. It runs the operations loop so your frontier tokens go to shipping code, not to “what should I do next?”
A briefing, not a blank prompt
Ask Arbiter for a brief and the local brain reads across your projects and hands you a status summary of where things stand, what moved, and what’s waiting. You start the day pointed at decisions, not at an empty terminal trying to remember where you left off.
A chat loop that knows your world
The brain runs a tool-calling conversation grounded in real signals: your projects, your git state, your recent runs, what you’ve asked it to remember. You talk to it in plain language and it calls the right tools to answer, so “what’s the state of the payments service and is anything stuck?” is a question it can actually act on, not just autocomplete.
Dispatch, with a gate in front
When there’s work to do, Arbiter dispatches it to your coding agents and tracks it as a real, accounted run. Configure approval policy for sensitive work, then choose whether a stop-all control, budget ceiling, and other limits should apply to the operation.
Where it stands
This runs in Arbiter’s working proprietary alpha. The briefing, chat loop, and dispatched work are being hardened for public binary release, with availability and platform support stated per release.
Arbiter is the supervision layer over the rest of the stack: TheAuditor for ground truth, Warden as the agent it dispatches, Curator for memory, BenchProctor for proof. See it move in Arbiter is alive, follow the public release channel, or read the RSS feed.