troupe

Your agents need a director.

troupe runs your development process with agents and people in named roles. Work branches and loops, decisions go to whoever owns them, and every decision records who made it.

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The problem

Agents work alone, in a line, and ask one person everything.

Agents in single file, all waiting on one person.
  • One agent, one lineWork runs in a single thread, step after step.
  • One bottleneckEvery question goes to “the human”.
  • No homeworkQuestions arrive with no research done.
  • No recordNobody can say who decided what.

How the show runs

A season, not a single show.

Your process runs again and again. Each run gets better.

Cast

Assign the roles

Agents and people, each in a named role.

Perform

Run the work

Tasks fork, join, swarm and loop. Not one agent in a line.

Cue

Call the right person

Decisions go to whoever owns them, with the research done.

Notes

Improve the next run

Every run is recorded. What went wrong changes the next one.

↻ and again, every showing

The cast

Your process, as a cast list.

Every role in your process, and who holds it: a person or an agent. Each decision goes to whoever owns it.

  • Product ownerAlex
  • EngineerBuild agent
  • ReviewerReview agent
  • QASam

Release: decided by the product owner

Example cast

Principles

What we’re building.

The ideas troupe is built on.

  • Local-first, everything in your project

    Config, history and decisions live in git, on your machine. No hosted service required.

  • Work that branches

    Tasks fork, join, swarm and loop, instead of one agent working in a line.

  • Built for teams of agents and people

    People hold roles the same way agents do, so each question goes to the person who owns it.

  • Escalation that does its homework

    Before an agent asks, it checks the issues, reads the docs and researches the standard, then brings a decision brief.

  • Lineage for every decision

    Every decision records who made it, human or agent, what it was based on, who approved it, and where its results went.

  • Bring your own agent

    Agents are pluggable: use ours, or bring your own.

Follow the build.

troupe is being built in the open. Follow along on GitHub.

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