OpenAI Open-Sources Symphony: Project Boards as Agent Control Planes
OpenAI released Symphony, an open-source specification for agent orchestration that uses a project management board — such as Linear — as the control plane for coding agents. Rather than building bespoke orchestration glue, Symphony turns the existing issue tracker into the instruction layer: agents read, claim, and complete tasks as board items. The release is part of OpenAI's Codex ecosystem and positions Symphony as a shared standard for multi-agent coding workflows.
Why It Matters
Symphony inverts the typical approach — instead of building a coordination layer on top of agents, you use the collaboration tool your team already lives in. If the spec gains traction, it normalizes project boards as the canonical interface between human intent and autonomous coding agents, with implications for how teams design agentic engineering workflows.