Tutorial: Try Polly

Polly is a multi-agent coding orchestrator. It breaks your task into sub-tasks and delegates each one to a different AI agent, with cross-vendor code review built in. This tutorial shows you how it looks in practice.

Time: 5 minutes. Everything runs locally.

1. Run Polly

omni polly

This starts Polly and opens a web UI at http://localhost:6767 (omni will start Polly too).

Running omni from the terminal launches Polly — Start Polly with `omni polly`, or just `omni`.

2. Give it a task

Refactor the authentication module into separate files for OAuth, JWT, and session handling. Add tests for each.

Polly breaks this into sub-tasks and delegates each one to a different AI agent. Claude Code implements one piece, Codex implements another in parallel, and a different agent reviews each PR.

3. Watch it in the web UI

Open http://localhost:6767. The right panel has four tabs: Files, Agents, Terminals, and Todos.

Click the Agents tab to see every sub-agent Polly dispatches, with live status (working, idle, finished).

Click any sub-agent to switch to its view and see its conversation, files, and terminal output.
Switch to the Terminals tab to see all running shells side by side.
Intervene at any point: send a message to a sub-agent, or switch back to Polly to see the orchestrator's view.

Switching from Polly to sub-agents in the Agents panel — The Agents panel shows Polly and its sub-agents, so you can inspect or steer each delegated worker directly.

This is where multi-AI orchestration becomes tangible: you can watch Claude Code and Codex working on different parts of the same task simultaneously, each in its own git worktree.

See Polly reference for the full details on skills like /fanout, /cross-review, and /investigate.

What's next

Collaborate from anywhere to deploy a server and share sessions with teammates.
Build a custom agent with your own multi-agent orchestration in YAML.