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StaffordAI — Development skill for Claude Code

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Desktop app for running a team of Claude Code agents you manage like colleagues.

How to install StaffordAI

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open BENZOOgataga/StaffordAI and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What StaffordAI does

Desktop app for running a team of Claude Code agents you manage like colleagues. Hire them, give them a project, watch their work, and pick up where you left off.

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README

Stafford

Stafford is a local desktop app that turns Claude Code into a team you manage instead of a terminal you use.

You hire agents. Each one takes a role from a definition file and gets a generated name you cannot change, because you do not choose the name of someone you hire. They persist across sessions with their history intact. You open the app and see a roster of cards, one per hire, showing who is working, who is idle, and who is waiting on you. Clicking a card gives you that agent's live terminal and a box to type into, which is the CLI you already know, addressed to a specific person.

I named it after Stafford Beer, the cybernetician. The name carries weight: this is a variety management system for agents, not a task tracker.

The axis

Vibe Kanban is task-centric. The Claude Desktop app is session-centric. Stafford is people-centric. You talk to a colleague, and the board is a view on top of that rather than the point of it.

Status

Pre-release. The core works and I use it, but there is no signed installer yet, so you run it from an unsigned build (see Install below).

What works today:

Hire an agent, spawn its session, and watch it in a live terminal.
Message a colleague, and see the reply in the same window.
A roster with one card per hire, deriving working, idle, waiting, rate limited, and crashed from Claude Code's own hooks.
A channel: one timeline across every colleague, with an inline reply on the row.
Clean drain on quit, so no session is left half torn down.

What is not done yet: code signing, installers, and auto-update. That is the release work in progress now, and it is why the current build is unsigned.

Platforms

v0.1.0 is Windows only. Windows is my daily platform and the one I verify on, so it ships first. macOS is written and builds, but I develop on Windows and verifying macOS means switching machines, so I am not gating the first release on it. It comes in a later release. Linux is written but unsupported,