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bunny is an open-source tool for collaborative development in the AI era, turning a VM or Docker container into a shared dev station with shared shells, live previews, and chat-native workflows. It enables humans and AI agents to work in a unified context, with parallel editing, continuous validation, and RBAC-based governance.

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Collaborative development for the AI era

From chat to shipping, keep humans and AI agents in the same context.

Turn a VM or Docker container into a shared dev station with shared shells, live previews, and chat-native workflows. Self-hosted by default.

Discuss in chat. Execute in shared context.

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Shipping in a single thread

Same moment, one source of truth

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With bunny

Governed gateway, shared context

Without bunny

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With bunny

Earlier proposals

Current version

No shared context

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Shared context

Proposal: 2 devs and silos

Broken context

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Relevant context

Shared remote environment

A VPS or container becomes the team's persistent workspace: terminals, live previews, streamed browsers, and a unified timeline where code, feedback, and experiments converge.

Chat-native workflows

Work from a channel with the same context, the same coding agent, and distinct rights for every contributor, whether engineers, designers, operators, or non-technical members.

Open & self-hosted

Install the tools you already use (shell, CLIs, scripts, Codex, Claude) through prompts and shared workflows in an environment your team controls.

Beyond code

Versioning that captures how software is actually made

The Git commit is often the only durable artifact explaining a project's evolution. But in modern workflows, meaning lives elsewhere: chat threads, agent prompts, collective decisions, tests run, errors encountered, and trade-offs accepted.

bunny adds a semantic layer on top of code versioning, connecting each important change to the discussions, goals, and interactions that led to it.

Chat discussions

AI agent prompts

Decisions & trade-offs

Tests & regressions

Code changes

One collaboration graph, not just a commit log.

Why was this commit made?

Which discussion led to this implementation?

What objective did this change serve?

Which agents or contributors influenced this decision?

In the long term, the remote environment becomes the guardian of the repository. Git doesn't disappear. It stops being the project's only mental model.

Parallel validation

CI feedback at the speed of vibe coding

Current workflows are poorly suited to AI-assisted development. Teams iterate faster, rely more on agents, yet CI arrives too late, takes too long, and sometimes gets bypassed entirely.

bunny integrates a validation agent that works in parallel with development: continuously testing changes, detecting regressions, analyzing errors, and suggesting fixes directly in chat.

Create Humans & coding agents ship changes

Validate Validation agent tests in parallel

Discuss Fixes & trade-offs in chat

Traditional CI Slow, disconnected, often too late

Parallel editing

True collaboration without overwrites or conflicts

On a shared VM, many contributors work at once: engineers in their shells, multiple AI agents in parallel. A single checkout would mean constant collisions, with one session stomping another's files mid-edit.

bunny provisions a git worktree for every agent and every user shell. Each session gets its own working directory and branch on the same repository, locally on the machine for isolated edits, safe parallelism, and merge when ready.

✓One worktree per agent and per shell session

✓Shared object store with no duplicate clones

✓Parallel branches, integrated through your usual Git flow

One repo. Many trees. Everyone ships in parallel.

Governance

Authorization on every action, for everyone

bunny sits between your team and every connected tool with a verification and enforcement layer. Before any teammate or AI agent runs a command, opens a PR, or touches an integration, bunny checks authorizations against your policies and RBAC rules.

The same governance applies whether the request comes from a human in chat or an autonomous agent, with no backdoors or shadow access. Policies travel with context across GitHub, shells, browsers, and every MCP-connected service.

✓Role-based access for humans and agents

✓Policy enforcement on every connected tool

✓Centralized audit trail in chat context

One gate. Every tool. Humans and agents alike.

Collaborate around context, not just a repository

Software development as a living process where humans, AI agents, environments, discussions, tests, and decisions stay connected in one flow.

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