5dive

5dive is an open-source agent orchestration harness and management framework developed by 5dive-ai. It provides scaffolding, execution scripts, and infrastructure configurations to run, coordinate, and supervise autonomous CLI coding agents. In daily use, 5dive orchestrates agent tasks across modular skill pipelines and team configurations. Developers configure agent behaviors using predefined team templates, load external capabilities via dedicated plugin and skill refresh scripts, and launch agent instances locally, within Docker containers, or as persistent Linux background services. Unlike standalone conversational CLI agents that operate solely in an interactive prompt loop, 5dive focuses on multi-agent execution scaffolding, plugin staging, lifecycle management (`5dive-agent-start`), and daemonization hooks (`systemd`). 5dive is distributed under an open-source license and hosted on GitHub with multi-language documentation support.

Tags: agent harness, ai agent, cli, developer tools, OpenSource, productivity

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Key features

  • Team templates — Pre-configured team roles and agent definitions located in team-templates for structuring collaborative multi-agent tasks. - Agent lifecycle controls — Includes helper entry points like 5dive-agent-start for initializing and managing running agent instances. - Plugin and skill staging — Dedicated automation scripts (5dive-refresh-plugins.sh, 5dive-refresh-skills.sh, and 5dive-stage-fork-plugins.sh) to synchronize modular tools. - System daemon integration — Native systemd service definitions to host long-running or autonomous agent workers on Linux hosts. - Container runtime support — Pre-packaged Docker configurations for reproducible and isolated agent environments. - Notification and hook system — Built-in event hooks and modular skills (such as skills/notify-user) for alerting developers during long-running tasks.

Use cases

Use Case: Orchestrating Autonomous Team Workflows Developers use team templates and staging scripts to spin up multi-agent configurations that delegate distinct software engineering roles across a single repository.

Use Case: Running Persistent Background Agents DevOps and platform engineers deploy 5dive using the included systemd or Docker definitions to continuously monitor codebases, triage issues, or execute automated tasks without keeping an active terminal session open.

Use Case: Custom Skill and Plugin Integration Teams building bespoke tool integrations use the modular skill refresh scripts to inject project-specific automation tools, notification webhooks, and custom shell hooks into the agent runtime.

Who it is for

5dive is suited for platform engineers, systems developers, and AI engineers looking for an extensible orchestration framework to run background or multi-agent automation workflows. It is not intended for developers seeking a simple, zero-config single-file chat CLI.

Install guide

Installation Clone the repository directly from GitHub: bash git clone https://github.com/5dive-ai/5dive.git cd 5dive Ensure management scripts have execution permissions: bash chmod +x ./5dive-agent-start ./*.sh

First Run Initialize and sync dependencies, plugins, and skills: bash ./5dive-refresh-plugins.sh ./5dive-refresh-skills.sh Configure your environment variables and model API keys according to the provided documentation templates.

Example Session Launch an agent instance using the primary start script: bash ./5dive-agent-start

Part of CLI Coding Agents

Categories: AI Coding Agents, Developer Tools, Productivity

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