# coleam00/Archon

The first open-source harness builder for AI coding. Make AI coding deterministic and repeatable.

Repository: https://github.com/coleam00/Archon
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/archon
Homepage: https://archon.diy
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ai, automation, bun, claude, cli, coding-assistant, developer-tools, typescript, workflow-engine, yaml
Last push: 2026-08-26T14:05:20+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 87/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 98, longevity 40
- inputs: {"age_days": 572, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 16, "gap_med": 2, "n_releases_24m": 20}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 23276, forks 3467 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:10.668100+00:00)

## What it is
Archon is an open-source workflow engine for AI coding agents that lets you define development processes (planning, implementation, validation, review, PR creation) as YAML workflows. It runs these workflows deterministically across CLI, Web UI, Slack, Telegram, GitHub, and Discord, with each run isolated in its own git worktree.

## Use cases
- automate bug fixes with AI agents
- run parallel AI coding agents in isolated worktrees
- define repeatable AI coding workflows as YAML
- dispatch coding tasks from Slack or Telegram
- automate code review and PR creation with AI
- orchestrate Claude Code and Codex agents

## When to choose
- you want deterministic, repeatable AI coding processes instead of ad-hoc agent prompts
- you need to run multiple AI agent tasks in parallel without merge conflicts
- you want to trigger coding workflows from chat apps, GitHub comments, or the terminal
- you use Claude Code or Codex and want an orchestration layer over them

## When to avoid
- you need a fully autonomous agent without predefined workflow structure
- your environment lacks AVX2 on x64 and you cannot build from source
- you don't use AI coding agents like Claude Code or Codex
- you need a simple one-shot AI code generation tool rather than multi-step workflow orchestration

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: workflow-automation, agent-framework, cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, large-language-models
- platform: windows, cli, cross-platform
- tags: ai-coding-agents, yaml-workflows, claude-code, git-worktrees, orchestration, parallel-agents, dag-workflows, automation, ai-agents, command-line, macos, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- coleam00/Archon (main) score 87

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:10.668100+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:56:45.585602+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/coleam00/Archon (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:10.668100+00:00, sha 64e36bb09e51)
  - homepage: https://archon.diy (fetched 2026-08-29T07:54:53.438487+00:00, sha f71385c4d5d3)
  - site_page: https://archon.diy/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T07:54:53.441185+00:00, sha b531cf5f18aa)
  - site_page: https://archon.diy/getting-started/installation (fetched 2026-08-29T07:54:53.443050+00:00, sha 36fad3dda78d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.