Babysitter

Enforce obedience on agentic workforces. Manage extremely complex workflows through deterministic, hallucination-free self-orchestration.

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Getting Started | Documentation | Community

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Table of Contents

• What is Babysitter?
• Prerequisites
• Installation
• First Steps
• Quick Start
• Agent Runtime CLI
• How It Works
• Why Babysitter?
• Blueprints
• Compression
• Documentation
• Contributing
• Community and Support
• License

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What is Babysitter?

Babysitter enforces obedience to agentic workforces, enabling them to manage extremely complex tasks and workflows through deterministic, hallucination-free self-orchestration. Define your workflow in code - Babysitter enforces every step, ensures quality gates pass before progression, requires human approval at breakpoints, and records every decision in an immutable journal. Your agents do exactly what the process permits, nothing more.

As of v6, Babysitter is harness-agnostic via its Adapters runtime: the same processes run across the 12 supported AI coding harnesses, so you are not locked to a single tool. See Adapters and the harness install matrix.

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Prerequisites

• Node.js: Version 20.0.0+ (22.x LTS recommended). The host-side adapters CLI pins a higher floor of 22.13.0+ (it loads the gateway's built-in node:sqlite, unflagged only from Node 22.13.0).
• A supported AI coding harness: any of the 12 harnesses covered in the install matrix (e.g. Claude Code — docs).
• Git: For cloning (optional)

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Installation

Babysitter v6 has two install tracks that should not be conflated: the host-side adapters CLI for running any harness directly from your shell, and the in-session per-harness plugin for driving full orchestration runs from inside your harness. Most people want both. The package split is:

• @a5c-ai/babysitter is the recommended end-user install for the main babysitter CLI.
• @a5c-ai/adapters-cli provides the host-side adapters CLI (Node >=22.13.0) for running and managing any supported harness from your shell. See the Adapters CLI reference.
• @a5c-ai/babysitter-sdk is the public SDK/library package and the underlying implementation behind the core CLI.
• @a5c-ai/genty-platform is the optional runtime CLI for genty call, resume, start-server, tui, and other orchestration/runtime commands.
• Harness plugins such as @a5c-ai/babysitter-codex or @a5c-ai/babysitter-cursor integrate Babysitter into a specific host tool. They do not replace the core CLI packages.

For most users, install the main CLI first:

npm install -g @a5c-ai/babysitter