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Hello World at 30,000 Feet: Setting Up Omnigent En Route to DAIS 2026

by Nick Passero, Director AI Data & Analytics, Databricks Practice Lead

As I started this project, I was flying over Shenandoah National Park on a 6:30 a.m. flight from Charlottesville to Chicago, then onto San Francisco for the Databricks Data and AI Summit 2026.

I opened my laptop to catch up on last week’s announcements and landed on Databricks’ release of Omnigent.

A couple of hours, reliable WiFi, and a new open-source orchestration layer—good enough conditions to see what this could actually do in practice.

As I reviewed the announcement and dug into the GitHub repo, I decided to test it in real time—using AI-assisted development (primarily Claude via CLI) as the interface for building and managing the setup.

What Is Omnigent?

Omnigent is an open-source multi-agent AI orchestration platform released by Databricks.

At its simplest, it acts as a management layer on top of your existing AI development tools—Claude...

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