Ready work and claim safety
Brigade lists unblocked tasks and uses fail-closed atomic claims so two agents cannot take the same item.
by Escoffier Labs
Brigade keeps coding-agent work trackable across tools, repos, and sessions: tasks, receipts, shared memory, and synced tools.
What it does
Run limits and registered cloud work
Current betaDeclared runs can enforce wall-clock and worker-dispatch ceilings and record named retry or reroute decisions. An optional fleet hub can report runs, repo claims, and external harness sessions. Registered cloud work is reconciled against provider and GitHub state.
Verification receipts
A check run through Brigade records the command, real exit code, Git state, and optional code impact.
Memory handoffs and recall
Handoffs are linted and routed by the memory owner. Ambiguous or risky notes wait for review, and recall returns a bounded relevant set. Current beta adds vault project, search, and propose.
Explicit harness projection
Brigade previews MCP, tool, and skill changes before writing them into each harness. Applying a projection is always explicit.
How Brigade fits
Most adjacent projects specialize in one layer. Brigade connects those layers around trackable coding-agent work.
| Layer | Brigade | Adjacent projects |
|---|---|---|
| Work | Ready work, claims, waves, fleet hub, receipts | Beads, Gas Town, nWave |
| Memory | Handoffs, care, vault, bounded recall, provenance | Hindsight, Mem0, Letta, agentmemory |
| Tools | Dry-run-first MCP, tool, and skill projection | Rulesync, add-mcp, chezmoi |
| Evidence | Receipts, blast radius, fleet board, cloud state | ActiveGraph, CocoIndex, Graphiti |
Scope
- Local files. No required daemon. Optional serve commands stay in the foreground.
- Scheduling stays external, except optional operator-owned care registrations.
- The work ledger is machine-local JSON. An optional hub aggregates events and claims, not a task database.
- Center and the fleet board are read-only. External activity observations are best-effort.
- Cloud registry commands track work that another provider runs.
Install Brigade
Start with the install guide, then let your coding agent wire the harnesses you use.