# get-bb/bb

The agent IDE that builds itself

Repository: https://github.com/get-bb/bb
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bb
Homepage: https://getbb.app
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ade, agent-ide, claude-code, codex, devtools, ide
Last push: 2026-08-26T21:49:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 82/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 13
- inputs: {"age_days": 190, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 8, "gap_med": 1.0, "n_releases_24m": 43}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2663, forks 319 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:07.508645+00:00)

## What it is
bb is an agentic IDE that can control, customize, and automate itself, exposing desktop, web, CLI, and HTTP API surfaces for driving agent-driven development work in steerable threads. It is highly extensible via plugins, with many of its own features (GitHub integration, memory, scheduled jobs) built as plugins.

## Use cases
- run coding agents in steerable threads from a desktop IDE
- automate development workflows with scheduled agent jobs
- build custom plugins to extend an agent IDE
- dispatch and hand off coding tasks between agents
- drive an agentic IDE from the CLI or HTTP API
- triage bugs and refactor code with AI agents

## When to choose
- you want an IDE where AI agents do the coding and you steer them
- you need a customizable, plugin-driven agent workbench
- you want to automate recurring dev tasks with agents

## When to avoid
- you need a traditional IDE without AI agent dependence
- you require native Windows support (only WSL2 works)
- you need a fully stable, mature tool - workflows are still evolving

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: agent-framework, developer-tools, cli, gui, plugin-system, workflow-automation, chat-interface
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: agentic-ide, claude-code, codex, self-building-ide, agent-threads, software-factory, typescript, ai-agents, automation, command-line, macos, linux, nodejs, desktop

## Member repositories
- get-bb/bb (main) score 82

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:07.508645+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 2026-08-30T02:18:20.389225+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/get-bb/bb (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:07.508645+00:00, sha 25cfa695b7dc)
  - homepage: https://getbb.app (fetched 2026-08-29T10:01:23.393819+00:00, sha 1aa44d175a4a)
  - site_page: https://getbb.app/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T10:01:23.403976+00:00, sha c481b070636f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.