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babysitter
Code-defined workflow orchestration with approval gates for AI coding harnesses
- Stars
- 1.9k
- License
- MIT
- Last commit
- Aug 2026
- Last release
- Jun 2026
- Language
- JavaScript
500 on 31 Mar 20261,863 on 20 Oct 2026
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Overview
Babysitter lets you write a workflow as a JavaScript process that calls tasks, breakpoints and quality gates, then drives an AI coding agent through it step by step. Every decision is recorded in an event-sourced journal. It installs as a plugin for 12 harnesses, including Claude Code and Codex, and has an internal harness for headless CI runs.
Who it is for: Engineers who want scripted, auditable multi-step runs of AI coding agents
Strengths
- Workflows are plain JavaScript, with human breakpoints and quality gates enforced in code
- Same processes run across 12 supported harnesses via the Adapters runtime
- Internal harness runs processes headless in CI with no external coding agent
- Event-sourced journal supports resuming interrupted runs and diagnosing them
Weaknesses
- Install is split across several npm packages (babysitter, adapters-cli, genty-platform)
- Only Claude Code and Codex have dedicated pages; Codex is beta, most others experimental
- Adapters CLI needs Node 22.13+, higher than the Node 20 baseline
- No hosted demo; the monorepo is large and the README is dense
What it needs
- no GPU
- Needs Node.js 20+, AI coding harness (e.g. Claude Code)
- Models: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot
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