kunchenguid/firstmate

firstmate

Talk to one agent. Ship with a crew.

What it is

You can run one coding agent easily.
But the moment you want three project tasks done in parallel - fixes, investigations, plans, audits - you become a tab-juggler: babysitting sessions, copy-pasting context between repos, forgetting which terminal had the failing test.

firstmate flips the model.
You talk to a single agent - the first mate - and it runs the crew for you: spawning autonomous agents in a visible session backend, giving each a clean git worktree, supervising them to completion, and handing you finished PRs, approved local merges, or standalone investigation reports.
For larger fleets, you can opt in to persistent secondmates: second mates that are still ordinary direct reports, but run from their own isolated firstmate homes on this machine or another SSH-reachable host.

firstmate is not a model, not a harness, not a skill, not an MCP server, and not a CLI.
firstmate is an agent distro for running a crew of agents.
An agent distro is a portable directory of instructions, skills, tooling, policies, and state conventions that turns a general-purpose agent into a specialized one.
There is no app to install: t