What is DAC?
Divide and Conquer (DAC) is a program you run on your own computer. It lets you run many AI agents side by side and keeps each one completely separate from the others. You manage all of them from one dashboard in your web browser.
The words used in this guide
An agent program is the program that wraps an AI model and gives it tools, such as Claude Code, Codex, Hermes or OpenClaw. DAC does not include one; it runs the ones already installed on your computer.
An agent is one agent program plus everything attached to it: its settings, its sign-ins, its connections, its skills, its conversations and the folder it works in. Two agents on the same agent program are as separate as two agents on different ones.
A connector is an outside service or a local program that an agent can use, such as Notion, a database or a web browser. Under the hood, a connector is an MCP server, MCP (Model Context Protocol) being the common standard for giving an agent extra tools.
A skill is a set of written instructions an agent can call on when a task needs it, for example how to review code or how to write a product specification.
A workspace is a group of agents that share one GitHub account, one set of connectors and one set of skills.
What is kept separate for each agent
| What | How it is kept separate |
|---|---|
| Settings, history and memory | Each agent has its own home folder, and its agent program keeps everything there |
| Connectors and their sign-ins | Each agent has its own copies and its own sign-ins |
| Skills | Each agent has its own copies |
| GitHub account | Chosen for each agent |
| The files it works on | Each agent has its own project folder |
| Keys in your own environment | Not passed to agents. An agent only gets what it was given |
| Starting and stopping | Each agent on its own. One stopping or failing never touches another |
Sharing is always a choice. Agents you put in the same workspace share that workspace's GitHub account, connectors and skills, and nothing else.
What DAC is not
DAC is not a hosted service. It runs on your computer, and the dashboard is only reachable from that computer. Nobody else can open it, and there is no DAC account to sign up for.
DAC also does not make agents work together on a shared task. Each agent works on its own.