📎paperclip
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The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work
⭐ Hugely popular: 78k stars, gaining about 975 a week
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momentum
durability
bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.
since we covered it
why it's a big deal
- It pushes the agent conversation beyond single assistants and into organizational software, with hierarchy, budgeting, and accountability built in.
- The repo is interesting because it focuses on the operating layer around agents rather than trying to be yet another agent framework.
- Its “zero-human companies” framing is bold, but it usefully forces the product to think like business software instead of a chat tool.
under the hood
- The product combines a Node.js server and React UI with support for org charts, heartbeats, goal alignment, ticketing, and cost controls.
- It is explicitly bring-your-own-agent, supporting tools like OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Bash, and HTTP-based systems.
- The architecture emphasizes safeguards like atomic task checkout, persistent agent state, revisioned config changes, and budget enforcement.
our take from PR#30, 2026-03-25
star history
- PR#30 29k 2026-03-25
- now 78k + 49k since first covered
curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.
understory
Quietly building: more output than attention, for now.
- output, commits & releases
- clout, star velocity
output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →
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Open-source orchestration for zero-human companies
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