kunchenguid/firstmate
Talk to one agent. Ship with a crew. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
58/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 5
Flags: no_releases young
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 82
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
4163 stars · 1387 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
firstmate is an 'agent distro' - a portable directory of instructions, skills, and scripts that turns a terminal coding agent into a supervisor that dispatches a crew of autonomous sub-agents. You talk to one liaison agent (the first mate), which spawns parallel crew agents in isolated git worktrees, supervises them, and delivers finished PRs, merges, or investigation reports.
Use cases
- run multiple coding agent tasks in parallel without juggling terminal tabs
- dispatch fixes, investigations, plans, and audits to autonomous sub-agents
- give each parallel task a clean isolated git worktree
- get finished PRs or local merges from delegated coding tasks
- supervise a fleet of agents across local and SSH-reachable hosts
- turn any terminal coding agent into a multi-agent crew supervisor
When to choose
- you regularly run several coding agent tasks in parallel on one or more repos
- you want a single liaison agent handling dispatch, supervision, and escalation
- you need isolated git worktrees per task to avoid collisions
- you use tmux/zellij-based terminal coding agents on macOS or Linux
When to avoid
- you only need a single coding agent session with no parallelism
- you want a GUI or hosted product rather than a repo-based distro of instructions and scripts
- you work primarily on Windows or outside terminal-based agent harnesses
- you need a model, harness, MCP server, or standalone CLI - firstmate explicitly is none of these
Facets
framework · maturity active
agent-framework workflow-automation developer-tools cli developer-tools cli multi-agent-orchestration coding-agents git-worktrees agent-distro tmux parallel-tasks ai-coding ai-agents automation command-line macos linux shell
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/kunchenguid/firstmate · fetched 2026-08-28 · 6b9ccc34f8ad
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| kunchenguid/firstmate | main | 58 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="kunchenguid/firstmate")
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