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Compression gateway that cuts AI coding agents' token bills up to 85%.
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View guide →Babysitter enforces the process: deterministic, quality-gated orchestration for fleets of coding agents.
babysitter is an open-source ai agents project by a5c-ai (a5c-ai/babysitter on GitHub). It has 1,837 GitHub stars and 113 forks, is released under the MIT license, and was last updated on GitHub on 16 September 2026.
Decide which coding harness you will run under Babysitter and how much human oversight (breakpoints) your workflow needs.
Install the main Babysitter CLI globally from npm, and optionally the adapters CLI and runtime platform packages.
Install the plugin for your harness, then run the user and project setup commands to create your profile and configure project workflows.
Start an orchestration run in interactive, planning, autonomous, or continuous mode and monitor it with the built-in commands.
Workflows defined in code are enforced step by step; progression requires gates to pass and approvals at configured breakpoints.
Every decision is recorded, giving an auditable trail for complex, long-running agent work.
The same processes run across 12 supported AI coding harnesses, avoiding lock-in to one vendor's agent tool.
Interactive mode pauses for approval, planning mode stops after design, autonomous (yolo) mode runs trusted tasks fully, and continuous mode runs indefinitely for monitoring-style work.
A built-in harness runs processes programmatically without any external coding agent, suiting CI/CD and scripted orchestration, and can delegate to discovered harnesses.
Doctor diagnostics, a live observation dashboard, resume for interrupted runs, retrospectives, and cleanup of old runs.
Most users install the published npm packages instead.
git clone https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter.git
cd babysitterInstall the main CLI globally, then add the plugin for your harness, for example Claude Code.
npm install -g @a5c-ai/babysitter
claude plugin marketplace add a5c-ai/babysitter-claude
claude plugin install --scope user babysitter@a5c.aiInside your harness, invoke the babysit skill on a real task.
claude "/babysitter:call implement user authentication with TDD"It is maintained by a5c-ai on GitHub.
Yes, Babysitter is MIT-licensed and free. The agents it orchestrates use your existing harness subscriptions or API keys.
Babysitter itself needs no key; it drives harnesses such as Claude Code or Codex, which authenticate with your own accounts.
Free-form agent chats improvise their process; Babysitter constrains agents to a coded workflow with gates, breakpoints, and a journal, trading flexibility for determinism and auditability.
npm install -g @a5c-ai/babysitter, install your harness plugin, run the user and project setup commands, then start a run with /babysitter:call.
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