# jayminwest/overstory

Multi-agent orchestration for AI coding agents — pluggable runtime adapters for Claude Code, Pi, and more

Repository: https://github.com/jayminwest/overstory
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/overstory
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: agent-swarms, ai-agents, claude-code, tmux
Archived: true
Last push: 2026-05-28T17:12:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 84, release rhythm 82, longevity 14
- inputs: {"age_days": 202, "days_push": 97, "days_rel": 123, "gap_med": 0.0, "n_releases_24m": 47}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1331, forks 210 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:24.257942+00:00)

## What it is
Overstory is a TypeScript CLI that orchestrates multiple AI coding agents as a team, spawning workers in isolated git worktrees and coordinating them via a SQLite-based mail system with tiered merge conflict resolution. It supports pluggable runtimes (Claude Code, Pi, Gemini CLI, Aider, Goose, and more) surfaced through a web UI or tmux panes.

## Use cases
- run multiple ai coding agents in parallel on one codebase
- orchestrate a swarm of claude code workers
- parallelize coding tasks across git worktrees
- coordinate ai agents with a mailbox system
- swap between different coding agent clis with one adapter
- merge work from multiple ai agents with conflict resolution

## When to choose
- you want to fan out coding tasks to several AI agents simultaneously
- you need runtime-agnostic orchestration across Claude Code, Pi, Gemini CLI, Aider, and others
- you prefer isolated git worktrees per agent with automated merging

## When to avoid
- the repository is archived and no longer maintained — prefer its successor Warren for new work
- you are not prepared for the compounding error rates, cost amplification, and merge conflicts of agent swarms
- you need a single-agent, low-complexity coding assistant

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: agent-framework, cli, workflow-automation
- domain: developer-tools, large-language-models
- platform: cli, bun
- tags: multi-agent-orchestration, claude-code, git-worktrees, tmux, agent-swarms, coding-agents, sqlite-mailbox, web-ui, ai-agents, automation, macos, linux, nodejs

## Member repositories
- jayminwest/overstory (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.257942+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 2026-08-30T04:45:17.345670+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jayminwest/overstory (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.257942+00:00, sha ca04bd67fab4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.