Under every forest is a network of threads that links the trees — carrying food,
water and warnings to wherever in itself they are needed. Hypha Mesh is that, for computing.
Your laptop, your server, the browser in front of you and the AI agents working for you all
join one living network, and the work flows to wherever it should happen.
Hypha Mesh is the infrastructure · Mycolab is the product built on it · one small binary, your files never leave your machines.
How it grows
Hypha — one thread
It starts with a single connection.
A hypha is one fungal thread: the smallest living part of the network, and the only part that
has to work. Here it is a computer joining — one command, and it reaches out to find the rest.
Nothing is opened on your side. No port, no firewall rule, no address for anyone to knock on,
and nothing of yours copied anywhere. The thread goes outward, which is the whole reason a
machine behind a home router or a university firewall can join at all.
Every machine, browser and agent that joins reaches for the others. They find each other by
name rather than by address, hand work between themselves, and know — authoritatively, not by
guessing — which of them is awake at this moment.
Nothing sits in the middle holding your data. The network is the threads: a mesh whose parts
are the computers you already own, answering each other directly.
A mushroom is a fruiting body: the visible thing a hidden network pushes up when it has
something to offer. The organism was there the whole time, underground.
Here the fruit is an agent session you can watch from any browser on any continent, a port on
your laptop that becomes a public address, a folder that becomes a website. You use the fruit.
The network stays where it is.
A computer, or a browser. Both attach the same way, and every
session in the workspace can reach both — there is no token to pass around, only a name.
A machine
Any computer you own. One small binary, approved from a browser — then you can run commands
on it, copy files to it, host agent sessions on it, and publish a local port from it.
Your own Chrome, with your own logins. An agent can open pages, read them, click things and
take screenshots — including tabs you are not looking at, so it works while you do.
A mycelium is a transport network — it exists to move things to
where they are needed. So does this one.
Agents, on your own hardware
Coding-agent sessions (Claude and others) that run on your machine, with your files
and your tools. The browser is only the window onto them.
Agents reaching other agents
Sessions and machines message each other across the network — hand off work, coordinate, or
watch one agent's output live from another.
Work, sent to where it belongs
Run something on any connected machine and watch the output arrive — scoped, time-boxed and
exactly once. No SSH, no inbound ports.
A local thing, made reachable
myco expose 3000 turns a server on your laptop into a public address —
live connections included, no firewall changes.
Chat, terminal and the contents of the files you open are end-to-end encrypted on your own
devices — metadata and uploaded artifacts are not. What we can and can't see →
What we built on it: Mycolab
Hypha Mesh is the foundation — the threads, the presence, the
routing. Mycolab is the product that grows on it, and it is what most people here actually want.
Hypha Mesh — the infrastructure
A communication layer: machines, browsers and agents join one network, find each other by
name, and call each other directly. No inbound ports, nothing in the middle holding your data.
You build on it.
An AI workspace that uses all of it: coding-agent sessions running on your machines,
watched from any browser; your files, your tools, your hardware. You do not have to know the
mesh is there.
If you came here to run agent sessions
on your own machines, you want Mycolab — this site is the
developer portal for the layer underneath it.
Made for the way you actually work
From a weekend prototype to a multi-tenant platform, the same
network carries you the whole way.
Developers & agents
Keep your code and secrets on your own machine, and let an agent work on them from anywhere —
no uploading your repository to someone else's cloud.
Homelabs & remote boxes
Reach a workstation, a server or a Raspberry Pi behind NAT or a firewall — run commands, move
files and publish services without opening a single port.
Teams & platforms
Isolated workspaces, scoped and revocable tokens, and authoritative presence let you share a
safe slice of the network with a teammate, a customer or a bot.
Put down your first thread.
Most people want Mycolab — install one binary and your first
machine is on the network, about two minutes. If you are here to build on the mesh, the
protocol and the primitives are documented in full.