Agentplane

Agentplane is an open-source agent orchestration harness and execution framework developed by Basilisk Labs. It is designed to coordinate automated software development workflows, manage task artifacts, and bridge external AI coding agents with local source code repositories. In daily use, Agentplane operates as a task-driven harness where tasks are assigned discrete IDs and managed through structured state files in a `.agentplane` directory. The framework standardizes how context is ingested from the codebase, formats prompts and projection context, and captures external agent outputs for automated application and verification. What differentiates Agentplane is its focus on reproducible task artifact tracking and modular agent recipes. Rather than acting strictly as a single interactive LLM chat terminal, Agentplane standardizes agent recipes and plugins (such as Hermes integrations) to orchestrate multi-step code execution, verification runs, and artifact logging in version-controlled projects. Agentplane is distributed as an open-source project hosted on GitHub, with configuration managed via repository-level dotfiles and modular recipes.

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

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Key features

• Task artifact management — Tracks discrete task execution states, commit links, and output artifacts inside dedicated project directories. - External agent execution harness — Captures and applies code modifications generated by external AI coding agents into the active working tree. - Modular recipe support — Uses modular recipe repositories (agentplane-recipes) to define reproducible agent workflow steps. - Context projection engine — Ingests and structures repository context to feed relevant file states into agent prompts. - Integration plugins — Provides dedicated plugins (such as the Hermes agentplane plugin) to interface with third-party agent environments. - Git-integrated workflow — Binds task states and verification records directly to standard Git commits and pull requests.

Use cases

Use Case: Automated Task Artifact Tracking Developers assign task tickets to Agentplane, which runs the necessary agent workflows and automatically records execution artifacts, diff outputs, and verification logs within the repository structure.

Use Case: Applying External Agent Results Teams using headless agent runners can pipe external code changes through Agentplane's harness to safely inspect, apply, and commit agent-generated diffs with structured commit metadata.

Use Case: Standardizing Multi-Step Recipes Engineering organizations define standardized code refactoring or validation recipes that agents execute consistently across multiple services.

Who it is for

Agentplane is built for software engineers and DevOps teams building structured, multi-agent development pipelines that require strict artifact tracking and recipe reproducibility. It is less suitable for developers looking for a basic conversational autocomplete chatbot or lightweight single-file editor.

Install guide

Installation Clone the repository and install its dependencies (Node.js/TypeScript environment standard): bash git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/basilisk-labs/agentplane.git cd agentplane npm install

First Run Ensure configuration files and recipes are initialized for your workspace: bash # Build the project npm run build # Initialize project workspace tracking mkdir -p .agentplane

Example Session Execute a task or apply agent results using the workspace runner: bash # Example running a task execution cycle node dist/index.js task run --id TASK-101

Part of CLI Coding Agents

Categories: AI Coding Agents, Code Assistants, Developer Tools

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