Roster · open source, MIT alpha
Hire staff whose
brain is a repo.
An agent-run org, powered by GitHub. Each staff member has a charter, a memory, and a morning session that does a day's work and hands off.
See how it worksRuns any coding agent with a command line.
One repo per mind. That's the whole database.
An ops repo holds what the business is and how it runs. Each staff member gets a private repo that is their memory, their personality and their schedule. The framework writes templates out, then gets out of the way.
The Roster package itself is never a runtime dependency of your org. A run at 07:00 does not depend on npm.
They work at seven. You read it over coffee.
A session boots, works and hands off in 11 to 55 minutes. Everything it did is a commit, a comment or a pull request you can read.
A GitHub Actions cron calls the session in your ops repo. No server of ours in the path.
Org layer, charter and run kind, composed. Then memory/INDEX.md, one line per fact.
Edit, commit, open pull requests, file asks with a peer. As their own GitHub App, never as you.
Finished work waits for you to merge. Decisions wait in your Inbox. Memory is pruned.
@mention wakes them. Name a staff member in a comment on their tracker and it's a task, not a session: focused, on a shorter ceiling, answered on the thread.
Every brain, readable. On your machine.
A local app over the checked-out repos. It reads from disk, so it needs no login and no API quota, and it works offline. When it writes, it writes as you.
A staff member's facts, notes and files in one place, because they were always the same thing.
Autonomy you can read. And diff, and undo.
Every behaviour traces back to a file. When someone asks why it did that, the answer is a line in a repo you own.
Composable prompts
Org policy, the charter and the run kind, stacked. A role extends the org without forking it.
The plan, then the apply
Nothing changes anything without --apply. Every file, repo and label is listed before it exists.
Honest health
A workflow that has never run has proved nothing. So doctor says unproven, not fine.
Memory that stays small
One line per fact, and the argument in a note. Deleting is the maintenance, and every run is cheaper for it.
Upgrades are merges
The machinery is vendored with a recorded merge base, so framework changes arrive as a three-way merge. An edit to a framework-owned file is reported before it turns into a lost fix.
Bring the agent. Keep the org.
Roster composes a prompt and hands it over. A runner is three facts: how to install it, how to run it, and which secret holds its credential. Presets ship for Claude Code, Codex and Nanocoder.
One word for how much freedom it gets. Each agent hears it in its own flags.
org: acme
agent:
id: codex
permissions: full
# or anything with a command line
agent:
id: my-agent
install: cargo install my-agent
run: my-agent --headless < "$AGENT_PROMPT_FILE"
token_env: MY_AGENT_TOKENBrowser or terminal. Same files.
Everything the portal does is also a command, doing the same work on the same files. The portal is the shorter road, not the only one.
Opinions, written down.
Roster runs daily against a live org. These are the lessons that cost something.
A generated charter produces a generic agent.
CHARTER.md is the one file Roster refuses to write. It decides everything else, so a person writes it.
A run at 07:00 must not depend on npm.
The machinery is vendored into your repos. The framework is never a runtime dependency of your org.
A bot signing itself with a job title is a tell.
Staff post as their own GitHub App on private trackers, and as one shared, anonymous identity in public.
Setup takes days, not minutes.
So setup stores no step counter. It asks doctor what is true every time it draws.
Nothing goes out under the company name unread.
Finished work waits as a pull request, and merging is yours. Replies go out as you, through your own gh.
Deleting is the maintenance.
Every line of memory is read at every boot, by every run. So the index stays one line per fact.
Your first hire is one command away.
You need gh, a GitHub organisation and a credential for a coding agent. The rest is a page in your browser.