What is AQ?

Published July 29, 2026 · by the AQ team

AQ is the multiplayer coding harness: a browser-based workspace where an engineering team runs real AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Agent, Kimi, Grok, Antigravity CLI) together, in shared live terminal sessions, with a code editor and live app previews, on infrastructure the team controls. It lives at aq.dev. If someone mentioned AQ in a thread and your search engine sent you everywhere except here, this page clears it up.

The name: AQ, aq.dev, and AgentQueue

AQ is short for AgentQueue, the product's original name. The product, the company accounts, and the website all go by AQ today, and the site is aq.dev. Two-letter names are genuinely hard to search for, so the reliable ways in are typing aq.dev into the address bar, or searching for "aq.dev" or "AQ multiplayer coding" instead of the bare letters.

Not the AQ you were looking for?

The letters collide with a few unrelated things. AQ at aq.dev is not Amazon Q Developer (Amazon's AI assistant for AWS), not an air quality index, and not the adversity quotient. AQ is an independent product built by BetterLeap, Inc. and is not affiliated with Amazon or AWS.

What AQ actually does

Each task your team hands to an agent gets a workspace backed by its own isolated git worktree, so ten agents on ten tasks never step on each other's files. Inside the workspace, the real agent CLIs run in persistent sessions on a VM: close your laptop and the agent keeps working, open the workspace from your phone and the same session is there.

The multiplayer part is what the name promises. A teammate with access opens the same workspace and sees the same live terminal, the same editor, the same running preview. The session owner can grant a teammate typing access with one click, so steering an agent (and reviewing the session) becomes a team activity instead of a solo one. Reviewers pin comments directly on elements of the running app, and any comment can be handed to the agent as a follow-up prompt.

Work flows in from Linear or GitHub, and flows out as pull requests that agents open with each user's own GitHub access. Model spend stays on the subscriptions your team already pays for: each user connects Claude Code, Codex, and the other agent CLIs with their own accounts, and AQ adds no markup on model usage.

Where it runs and what it costs

Agent execution happens on a runner VM: one you connect from your own cloud account, or a dedicated AQ-managed VM on the paid plan. The free plan is the full product on a VM you bring. The Team plan is $100 per user per month at launch (standard price $200) and includes the dedicated managed VM. Details are on the pricing page.

Where to go next

The docs overview walks through the moving parts. Multiplayer coding agents explains the category AQ sits in. Or skip the reading: aq.dev, Start free.