Gaffer — AI skill for Claude Code

Gaffer

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**A local-first, self-hosted AI coding factory that works your own backlog — autonomous coding agents you supervise, on your machine, under a human merge gate.**

I built Gaffer to chip away at my own side-project backlog while I'm doing something else: the boring, never-quite-urgent tickets I'd otherwise never get to. It turns a one-line idea into dependency-ordered tickets, works each one through **plan → implement → test → review**, and delivers a git branch or PR with evidence — but **nothing merges until I approve the diff** (the agent *structurally cannot* ship its own work). Vague or blocked tickets park for a human rather than being forced through.

It's a personal hacking tool, not a claim that it replaces engineers or ships production code unsupervised — it's **run-at-your-own-risk alpha**. Think of it as a tireless junior for the stuff you'd never get around to: local-first (your machine, your repos, your keys), supervised by default, hands-off autonomy strictly opt-in.

**Alpha software.** Gaffer runs local coding agents with **shell access** inside repos you control. Use it only on **trusted repositories**, keep the **human review gate on**, and treat the host like a machine running an AI agent with developer-level access. Not prod