Agent Backbone

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.


*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