kunchenguid/firstmate
Talk to one agent. Ship with a crew.
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firstmate Talk to one agent. Ship with a crew. You can run one coding agent easily. But the moment you want three project tasks done in parallel - fixes, investigations, plans, audits - you become a tab-juggler: babysitting sessions, copy-pasting context between repos, forgetting which terminal had the failing test. firstmate flips the model. You talk to a single agent - the first mate - and it runs the crew for you: spawning autonomous agents in a visible session backend, giving each a clean git worktree, supervising them to completion, and handing you finished PRs, approved local merges, or standalone investigation reports. For larger fleets, you can opt in to persistent secondmates: second mates that are still ordinary direct reports, but run from their own isolated firstmate homes on this machine or another SSH-reachable host. firstmate is not a model, not a harness, not a skill, not an MCP server,…
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- What it is
- Features
- Quick Start
- Requirements
- Recommended harnesses
- Install and launch
- Talk to it
- More backends
- How It Works
- Built-in skills
- Two-tier skill layout
- Documentation
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What this repository does
Talk to one agent. Ship with a crew.
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- Owner
- kunchenguid
- Primary language
- Shell
- Stars
- 6,769
- Forks
- 2,040
- Open issues + pull requests
- 1,417
- License
- MIT
- Archived
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- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-06-12T03:21:10.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-16T02:21:22.000Z
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