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Agent Backbone — Git skill for Claude Code

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A lightweight control plane for terminal coding agents.

How to install Agent Backbone

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

What Agent Backbone does

A lightweight control plane for terminal coding agents. Message, manage and delegate across Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode sessions, with GitHub Issues as the task list. No files in your repo.

Alternatives in Git

GitLab — Source Control GitLab integration via MCP 14k ★
Memorix — Open-source cross-agent memory layer for coding agents via MCP 392 ★
MiniCode Roadmap — MiniCode already has a usable lightweight terminal coding workflow, but there is still a visible gap between t 388 ★

README

agent-backbone

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A lightweight control plane for the terminal coding agents you already use.

agent-backbone runs Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Deep Code and other command-line agents as persistent sessions on your machine, and gives them what a single terminal cannot: a way to communicate with each other, a manager that knows what each of them is doing, a channel for delegating work, and a way to form teams around a task. The agents stay the tools you already run, with their own logins, configuration and model access. The backbone adds no model, no subscription and no files to your repositories.

![An agent installs agent-backbone from PyPI, sets it up, starts a Claude Code agent and an OpenCode agent, splits the terminal to show them, and has them review each other's work](docs/media/demo.gif)

*Unedited, at 3× speed. A Claude Code session on a clean Linux machine is asked to install agent-backbone and set it up, then to start a Claude agent and an OpenCode agent and have them work together. It installs from PyPI, follows `backbone help setup`, starts both agents, splits the terminal itself so you can watch them, and the two agents review each other's work — four messages across two runtimes, no human input after the two prompts.*

**Contents** · [What it enables](#what-it-enables) · [Getting started](#getting-started) · [How it works](#how-it-works) · [Runtimes](#runtimes) · [Going further](#going-further) · [How it relates to other tool