Background Agents
Background Agents: open-source coding agent system
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About Background Agents
Background Agents is an open-source coding-agent system inspired by cloud background agent products. The README describes sandboxed development environments, web and Slack access, GitHub and Linear integrations, cron-style automation, parallel sub-tasks, and multi-provider model support.
Pros
- Background coding sessions with full dev environments
- Web UI, Slack, GitHub, Linear, and webhook integrations
- Pull request creation with commit attribution
- Cron, Sentry alert, and inbound webhook automations
- Parallel sub-task spawning in separate sandboxes
- Documented single-tenant security model and deployment recommendations
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- • Source code available on GitHub
- • Self-host or run locally where documented
- • Bring your own model/API provider costs when required