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kunchenguid/firstmate: Talk to one agent. Ship with a crew. ·

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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. firstmate is not a model, not a harness, not a skill, not an MCP server, and not a CLI. firstmate is an agent distro for running a crew of agents. An agent distro is a portable directory of instructions, skills, tooling, policies, and state conventio

Talk to one agent. Ship with a crew. What it is 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…

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