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Pitboss — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Rust headless dispatcher for parallel Claude Code agent sessions.

How to install Pitboss

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

What Pitboss does

Rust headless dispatcher for parallel Claude Code agent sessions.

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README

Pitboss

**Operating pitboss from an AI agent?** See [`AGENTS.md`](AGENTS.md) — schema reference, decision tree, canonical examples, and the rules for translating natural-language requests into valid manifests.

Documentation

Full operator guide, MCP tool reference, Security section (threat model, defense-in-depth, Rule of Two), approval policy reference, and a cookbook of working scenarios: **https://sds-mode.github.io/pitboss/**

To browse offline:

cd book/
cargo install mdbook  # one time
mdbook serve --open

**v0.17.0** is a **stabilization release** focused on budget enforcement correctness and parser coverage for Claude CLI 2.x. The headline fix (#602) closes a double-count in `compute_total_spend` for terminated sub-leads: pre-fix, a hierarchical run with reconciled sub-trees saw the live budget watcher trip at ~2× the actual run spend (a $1.65 run tripped a $4.00 cap at $4.71 in validation). Post-fix, the live watcher's view matches `summary.json::spend_breakdown.total_usd` byte-for-byte. **Parser support for extended-thinking content blocks** (#601) — real Claude CLI emits `{"type":"thinking", ...}` content blocks inside assistant messages under haiku-4-5 / sonnet-4-5 / opus-4-x; pre-fix these were silently dropped, and on thinking-only turns the line was discarded entirely (losing `Event::AssistantUsage` so mid-run budget enforcement saw stale spend). The fix surfaces `Event::AssistantThinking`, reorders `parse_assistant` so `AssistantUsage` always lands, and renders thinking content with a `~` prefix in `pitboss attach` / TUI. **Parser drift detector** (#599) — the parser now emits `tracing::warn!` on unknown stream-json `type` fields and unknown assistant content blocks, so future Claude CLI wire-format changes surface in production tracing the first time they fire (this very detector caught the thinking-block issue on the first live run after merge). **Concurrency hardening** — six medium-severity audit findings closed: nested `