Brigade

Brigade keeps coding-agent work trackable across tools, repos, and sessions: tasks, receipts, shared memory, and synced tools.

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Published v0.27.0 is the stable install (brigade-cli==0.27.0). It adds per-repo parallel-safe work waves, cross-repo ready-work campaigns, Memory Operations, an optional fleet hub, care-managed memory jobs, cloud seats with receipts, vault projection, run lineage, code-graph views, bounded recall, declared budgets, and a machine-readable control crosswalk. Main is now the 0.28 beta line.

What it does

• Ready work and claim safety. Brigade lists unblocked tasks and uses atomic claims so two agents cannot take the same item.
• Declared run limits, optional fleet hub, and registered cloud activity. Brigade enforces declared wall-clock and worker-dispatch ceilings, records named retry and reroute decisions, can report runs, repo claims, and external harness sessions through an operator-owned fleet hub, and reconciles registered cloud work against provider and GitHub state.
• Verification receipts. A check run through Brigade writes the command, the real exit code, and the Git state. Not every Brigade command writes a receipt.
• Owner-mediated handoffs and bounded recall. Handoffs are linted and routed by the memory owner. Safe targeted notes may auto-file, while ambiguous or risky notes wait for review. Session-start recall is capped, and vault project, search, and propose are bounded.
• Explicit dry-run-first harness projection. MCP servers, tools, and skills are previewed before Brigade writes them into a harness.

Learning in Brigade is outcome-based skill scoring, promotion, and rollback from captured verification receipts. It is not autonomous reflective memory learning.

Install

Install with pipx install brigade-cli or uv tool install brigade-cli, then follow the install guide, QUICKSTART.md, or give first 10 minutes and docs/agents-guide.md to your coding agent.

Stable channel: published v0.27.0. Preview channel: brigade update --channel beta for 0.28.0.devYYYYMMDD wheels. Details: update channels.

How it compares

Brigade overlaps several categories. Most adjacent projects specialize in one layer. Brigade connects those layers around trackable coding-agent work. Where a neighbor is stronger, that cell says so. Dated sources and longer notes: docs/comparison.md (2026-08-27).

Comparison key: Supported · Partial · Not documented

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