agentproto/ts

Let your coding agents work without you watching.

agentproto runs Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, opencode, Mastra, and any other coding agent in the background, shows them all in one place, and checks each one's work — with your tests or a reviewer model — before anything is committed. No more babysitting terminal windows.

• Run them all the same way. Start, message, watch, and stop any agent with the same commands. Fifteen agents under one lifecycle today.
• Work checked before it lands. Attach a check — your tests, or a stronger model reviewing the change — and it runs each time the agent finishes. Commits wait for the check and your OK, even after you close your laptop.
• Keep the tools you have. It drives the agent CLIs you already use — nothing to rewrite. Agents can even run and check other agents.
• And a full toolbox around them. Author tools as files and serve them, import any MCP server and hand it to any agent, open tunnels, drive browsers, schedule workflows and cron runs.

The daemon is the flagship surface of something bigger: agentproto is an open agentic framework — the AIP specs define every agent component (tools, skills, agents, knowledge, workflows, policies) as a plain file with a declared contract, and this repo is the TypeScript runtime that loads, runs, and projects them into any host (CLI, HTTP, MCP, Mastra, Vercel AI SDK). Files with contracts is what lets any runtime load them — and lets agents read, write, and improve their own components.

Status: 1.32.0. APIs are stabilising; expect minor breaking changes between releases.

Quick start

Or bootstrap from zero in one line:

# macOS / linux
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agentproto/ts/main/scripts/bootstrap/install.sh | bash

# Windows 10/11 (PowerShell 5.1+)
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agentproto/ts/main/scripts/bootstrap/install.ps1 | iex

Manual path:

npm i -g @agentproto/cli
agentproto install claude-code   # auto-installs the adapter package too
agentproto serve                 # start the daemon (foreground)
agentproto sessions start claude-code --cwd . --prompt "refactor the payments module"
agentproto sessions --watch

Then gate it: attach a policy to any session's turn-end and stage the commit behind a human ack. See agentproto.sh for the full pitch, or jump straight to agentproto.sh/features for the honest split below.

What's live vs. roadmap

This repo ships two very different things under one name:

• Tier 1 — live, verified hands-on: the daemon, the CLI, fifteen agent adapters (Claude Code, Claude SDK, Codex, Gemini, Grok CLI, Hermes, jcode, opencode, Mastra Code + in-process, Mastra Agent, OpenClaw, browser-as-agent, Antigravity, pi), durable policy gates, nested orchestration with role gating, fan-in monitoring, workflows/cron, and an MCP surface (~175 tools) on the daemon itself.
• Tier 2 — the wider AIP spec family: 72 numbered specs live in agentproto/agentproto. Most reference-implementation packages beyond Tier 1 are 0.1.0-alpha scaffolding — real schemas, real intent, not yet operational software.

Full breakdown: https://agentproto.sh/features. If you find a Tier 2 claim anywhere that reads as shipped, please file an issue — that split is the contract.

Contributing an adapter

The adapter contract is small: declare models[] and modes[] via an AIP-45 manifest, implement the lifecycle verbs, and reuse the shared provider-kit primitives (creds, catalog entry, setup/status tools). Obvious gaps: Cursor (agent CLI, ACP-capable — not verified end to end), aider, goose, cline, Continue. See adapters/claude-code for a complete reference implementation, and look for good first issue labels in the tracker.

VS Code extension

packages/vscode contains the private agentproto-vscode extension: local operational views for daemon sessions and permissions, plus commands to manage agents from the editor. Every Releases asset is built in CI, never committed to the repo:

• Dev builds — every push to main touching packages/vscode publishes a prerelease VSIX tagged vscode-dev-<sha>, for grabbing the bleeding edge.
• Official releases — a "Version Packages" PR merge that included vscode changes publishes a versioned VSIX tagged vscode-v<version>, same cadence as every other package's release.

Install either through VS Code's Extensions: Install from VSIX... command.

To build one yourself instead:

cd packages/vscode
pnpm package
unzip -t agentproto-vscode-*.vsix

See packages/vscode/README.md for development and verification commands.

Packages

The repo is organised into five layers, each a sibling subtree under packages/ or adapters/.

1 — Runtime & daemon

@agentproto/runtime is the long-running gateway that turns a workspace into a live AIP runtime: session management, an MCP server, an HTTP transport, the HEARTBEAT autonomy loop, and append-only conversation persistence.

packages/runtime/    @agentproto/runtime     Session lifecycle, MCP tools, HTTP API, supervisor / orchestrator
packages/cli/        @agentproto/cli         `agentproto` binary — install adapters, run/serve sessions, daemon
packages/mcp-server/ @agentproto/mcp-server  Per-doctype CRUD MCP tools (create/load/list/update/resolve/delete)

Key MCP tools exposed by the runtime:

Tool	Purpose
agent_start / agent_prompt / agent_output / agent_kill / agent_interrupt	Spawn, drive, interrupt, and stop long-lived agent-CLI sessions
message_parent	Child session reports a result, progress update, or blocker up to its parent supervisor (resolved from the child's recorded parentSessionId; no session id argument)
agent_set_model / agent_set_effort / agent_set_posture	Best-effort live switches for a session's config axes (return {applied:false, reason} when the running adapter can't apply them live)
agent_sessions_list / agent_export	List agent sessions; export a clean transcript
conversation_read	Read the provider-native conversation behind any session (agent-cli or PTY)
session_list / session_tree / session_usage / session_restart	Canonical session list, hierarchy, usage, and resume
session_archive / session_unarchive	Hide / restore sessions from the canonical list (VS Code "show archived" toggle)
session_rename / session_set_pinned	Set or clear a session's user-facing title / label, or toggle its pinned sort flag
session_flag_status	Manually correct a session's awaitingInput / awaitingQuestion classification
worktree_gc	Plan/apply garbage collection of linked git worktrees
terminal_start / terminal_input / terminal_output / terminal_kill	Drive raw PTY sessions
command_log_tail	Read the JSONL audit log for command_execute
policy_attach / policy_cancel / policy_status	Supervisor completion-policy lifecycle
/ / /

2 — Adapter families

packages/provider-kit/        @agentproto/provider-kit    Shared catalog, creds, setup-ledger, MCP tool primitives
packages/provider-presets/    @agentproto/provider-presets   Shared gateway preset registry (Anthropic, Moonshot, OpenRouter, Requesty, DeepSeek, xAI, xAI-Anthropic, LLM Endpoint)

adapters/claude-code/         @agentproto/adapter-claude-code   AIP-45 adapter for Claude Code
adapters/claude-sdk/          @agentproto/adapter-claude-sdk    AIP-45 adapter for Claude SDK (Anthropic/Moonshot/OpenRouter gateway modes)
adapters/codex/                @agentproto/adapter-codex          AIP-45 adapter for Codex
adapters/gemini/              @agentproto/adapter-gemini        AIP-45 adapter for Gemini
adapters/hermes/              @agentproto/adapter-hermes         AIP-45 adapter for Hermes
adapters/opencode/            @agentproto/adapter-opencode       AIP-45 adapter for OpenCode
adapters/openclaw/            @agentproto/adapter-openclaw       AIP-45 adapter for Openclaw
adapters/antigravity/         @agentproto/adapter-antigravity    AIP-45 adapter for Google Antigravity
adapters/mastra-agent/        @agentproto/adapter-mastra-agent   First-party agent — AIP-42 AGENT.md run as a live Mastra agent behind ACP
adapters/browser/             @agentproto/adapter-browser        Browser / CDP session adapter

All agent-CLI adapters share the provider-kit primitives: makeSetupTool (single-field or multi-field creds), computeStatus, AdapterCatalogEntry, and makeCredsStore. mastra-agent is the odd one out: every other adapter wraps an external agent CLI, whereas mastra-agent is ours end to end — an AGENT.md run as a live Mastra agent (our loop, our models), spawned by the daemon like any arm or standalone via agentproto-mastra acp.

3 — Tool authoring

The original three-layer model for tools consumed inside the runtime or projected into a host framework: contract → implementation → bundle.

packages/tool/         @agentproto/tool       AIP-14  defineTool, ToolHandle, validators
packages/driver/       @agentproto/driver      AIP-30  implementTool, defineDriver, runTool, resolver
packages/driver/cli/   @agentproto/driver-cli  AIP-29  CLI/subprocess transport
packages/driver/http/  @agentproto/driver-http         HTTP transport
packages/driver/mcp/   @agentproto/driver-mcp          MCP server transport
packages/driver/sdk/   @agentproto/driver-sdk          SDK / dynamic-import transport

import { defineTool } from "@agentproto/tool"
import { implementTool, defineDriver } from "@agentproto/driver"
import { z } from "zod"

const greetTool = defineTool({
  id: "greet",
  description: "Greets a name in the bound locale.",
  inputSchema: z.object({ name: z.string() }),
  outputSchema: z.object({ greeting: z.string() }),
  contextSchema: z.object({ locale: z.enum(["en", "fr"]) }),
})

const greetBuiltin = implementTool(greetTool, async ({ input, context }) => ({
  greeting: context.locale === "fr" ? `Bonjour ${input.name}` : `Hello ${input.name}`,
}))

const greetDriver = defineDriver({
  id: "greet-builtin",
  name: "Greet (builtin)",
  description: "In-process greeter.",
  kind: "builtin",
  implements: [{ tool: "greet", version: "0.1.0" }],
  implementations: [greetBuiltin],
})

Re-express any ToolImplementation in a host framework's tool shape:

adapters/ai-sdk/        @agentproto/adapter-ai-sdk    Vercel AI SDK Tool projection
adapters/mastra/        @agentproto/adapter-mastra     Mastra createTool projection
packages/bridge/        @agentproto/bridge             AIP-42 AGENT.md → Mastra Agent

import { toAiSdkTool } from "@agentproto/adapter-ai-sdk"
import { toMastraTool } from "@agentproto/adapter-mastra"

const aiSdkTool  = toAiSdkTool(greetBuiltin, { context: { locale: "en" } })
const mastraTool = toMastraTool(greetBuiltin, { source: { context: { locale: "en" } } })

4 — Knowledge & workflow

packages/corpus/          @agentproto/corpus         AIP-10/12/18 knowledge composition (pure, no I/O)
packages/corpus-cli/      @agentproto/corpus-cli     `corpus` binary — validate, lint, operate a corpus workspace
packages/workflow-runtime/ @agentproto/workflow-runtime  AIP-15 typed step-walker (tool/map/branch/loop/transform)
packages/agent-runtime/   @agentproto/agent-runtime  MultiAgentRuntime kernel with swappable ports

@agentproto/corpus composes AIP-10 KNOWLEDGE, AIP-12 PLAYBOOK, AIP-18 COLLECTION, AIP-9 OPERATOR, AIP-15 WORKFLOW, and AIP-41 ROUTINE into an autonomous knowledge-improvement system. Pure: zero runtime, zero filesystem, zero HTTP — all I/O via injected ports.

5 — Platform: auth, sandbox, secrets, telemetry

packages/auth/          @agentproto/auth           Pluggable CredentialStore + device-code (RFC 8628) auth flow
packages/sandbox/       @agentproto/sandbox        agent_start.sandbox: boot/reconnect/pause an isolated box
packages/secrets/       @agentproto/secrets        Broker-resolved provision auth headers, mcp-header exposure
packages/processor/     @agentproto/processor      Dependency-free Redactor port for transcript/log scrubbing
packages/telemetry/     @agentproto/telemetry      Telemetry port + OTel adapter
packages/eval/          @agentproto/eval           Scorers + runEval, including an LLM-judge scorer

Specifications

The AIP markdown specs live in agentproto/agentproto. Browse rendered versions at https://agentproto.sh/docs.

Key specs implemented here:

AIP	Spec	Package
AIP-9	OPERATOR.md	@agentproto/operator
AIP-10	KNOWLEDGE.md	@agentproto/corpus
AIP-12	PLAYBOOK.md	@agentproto/corpus
AIP-14	TOOL.md	@agentproto/tool
AIP-15	WORKFLOW.md	@agentproto/workflow, @agentproto/workflow-runtime
AIP-17	RUNNER.md	@agentproto/runner
AIP-18	COLLECTION.md	@agentproto/corpus
AIP-29	CLI.md	@agentproto/driver-cli
AIP-30	DRIVER.md	@agentproto/driver
AIP-36	SANDBOX.md	@agentproto/sandbox
AIP-40	EXTENSION.md	@agentproto/extension
AIP-41	ROUTINE.md	@agentproto/routine
AIP-42	AGENT.md	@agentproto/agent, @agentproto/bridge
AIP-45	Agent CLI adapter	adapters/{claude-code,claude-sdk,hermes,opencode,codex,openclaw,mastra-agent,antigravity,jcode}
AIP-57	Model resolution primitive	@agentproto/model-routing
AIP-62	REVIEW.md	@agentproto/review
AIP-65	DECISION.md	@agentproto/runtime
AIP-66	Managed cloud agents (cloud:<vendor> target)	@agentproto/runtime, adapters/claude-code-cloud

Building from source

pnpm install
pnpm -r build
pnpm -r test

License

Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE. Copyright 2026 Jeremy André and agentproto contributors.

Contributing

Spec evolution happens at agentproto/agentproto. This repo tracks AIP progression — implementations follow as AIPs reach Review/Final status. PRs welcome for runtime bugfixes, perf, and adapter coverage — see "Contributing an adapter" above.