#436 · Primary category: AI Agents & Automation

background-agents

An open-source background agents coding system

Project last updated:08/30/26

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2.7K

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401

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47

License

MIT

Why we included this project

Developers juggling review queues and triage lists can offload the slow work to this self-hosted coding agent, which picks up background tasks against real development environments with git, Node.js, Python, and browser access. What makes it easy to adopt is that it connects to Slack, GitHub PRs, Linear issues, and webhooks, so updates land where you already work instead of in another dashboard. It can run recurring jobs on a cron schedule or fire from Sentry alerts, and spin up parallel sub-agents in separate sandboxes to work on multiple threads at once. The honest caveat is the security model. It is single-tenant by design, with everyone sharing the same GitHub App credentials and repository access, so it suits a trusted internal team rather than a public multi-tenant service.

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