Quilt, Kylon and AQ: three ways to put AI agents on a team
Kylon, AQ and Quilt all bring AI agents into team work, but they answer different questions. Here is where each one fits and where Quilt is different.
People keep asking how Quilt compares with Kylon and AQ. Fair question. All three put AI agents next to people, and all three use words like rooms, sessions and teams. Underneath, they are built for pretty different jobs, so it is worth laying them side by side. The short version is in a table on our comparison page. This is the longer version.
Everything we say about Kylon and AQ comes from their own websites and pricing pages as of 21 October 2026. If something has changed, tell us and we will update it.
Kylon is for running a business with agents
Kylon calls itself a company harness. It is one workspace where your people, your agents, your company knowledge and your tools meet. The examples on its site are invoice trackers built from a billing inbox, hiring boards, sales dashboards and pages for a warehouse floor. It connects to more than 3,000 services, from Gmail and Slack to Salesforce and Stripe, and it is clear that you do not need engineers on staff to get value from it.
You can bring Claude Code, Codex or Devin into a Kylon room, but code is not the center of it. Pricing is per workspace, with Core starting at $50 a month for 500 credits and up to 10 agents.
If most of the work you want help with is finance, sales, hiring or operations, Kylon is aimed squarely at you.
AQ is for running coding agents in the cloud
AQ takes the coding agents you already pay for, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others, and runs them on a cloud machine that you open in a browser tab. Teammates join the same live terminal with a link and can take over the keyboard. Every task gets its own git worktree, so parallel agents never share a checkout, and you can review the running app right next to the agent. A Linear issue labelled ai-task turns into a workspace on its own.
Your code stays on a dedicated VM, either in your own cloud or one AQ runs for you. There is a free solo sandbox, and Pro is $50 per user a month at an early access rate.
If you want your agents to live on a server instead of anyone's laptop, AQ is built for that.
Quilt is for building one project together, each with your own AI
Quilt starts from a different place. We think the people on a team will keep using different AI tools. One person lives in Claude Code, another in Cursor, someone else in Codex or plain vim. We do not want to make anyone switch, and we do not want to move everyone's work onto one machine.
So Quilt syncs files and nothing else. Everyone works in their own copy of the project, on their own computer, and every change shows up on everyone else's disk within moments. Text merges character by character, so two agents editing different parts of the same file both land.
Because the agents are working on the same files at the same time, they need to coordinate, and that is most of what we build. A few of the pieces:
- Claims. When your AI edits a file it is yours for now. If another AI tries to change it, the edit is undone and it is told who holds the file. It can join a queue, and the holder hands the file over with notes on what changed.
- A live feed of each other's AI. You can see your partner's prompts, the replies and actions like "Edited src/app.ts" as they happen, next to a file tree showing who is touching what.
- Chat, tasks and handoffs that agents use as easily as people do, through an MCP server Quilt connects to Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex and about ten other tools for you.
- Room for every kind of AI. Cloud agents join through Quilt's hosted MCP, and chat AIs like ChatGPT or Grok can join through a chat link.
Quilt is free while it is in beta, and runs on Mac, Windows and Linux.
Which one should you pick?
It mostly comes down to what you are trying to do.
- Pick Kylon if the work is the business itself: invoices, leads, hiring, operations.
- Pick AQ if you want coding agents running in the cloud with one isolated workspace per task.
- Pick Quilt if a group of people, each with their own favorite AI, is building one project together and you want everyone's agents to work on it at the same time without stepping on each other.
They are not mutually exclusive either. Any agent that can read and write a project folder can join a Quilt session, wherever it runs.
If that last description sounds like your team, download Quilt and send someone an invite link. It takes a couple of minutes.