MetaGPT is an open-source multi-agent framework that models software and business workflows as teams of specialized AI roles. A user can provide a high-level requirement and the system assigns different responsibilities to agents that behave like product managers, architects, engineers, and other team members, producing intermediate artifacts and coordinating work through structured processes.

The project is best known for its software-development use cases, where agents can move from requirements toward design, implementation, and related outputs, but its underlying role-based coordination concepts can be applied more broadly. MetaGPT is aimed at developers and researchers exploring multi-agent collaboration, standardized operating procedures, and more structured alternatives to a single autonomous agent. It is particularly useful for experimentation with how multiple LLM-driven roles can divide and coordinate complex tasks.