ColeMurray/background-agents
An open-source background agents coding system
About the project
An open-source background coding agent system: the agent works on tasks in isolated sandboxes with a full dev environment, triggered from a web UI, Slack, GitHub, Linear, or webhooks.
Useful for
- Start a coding session from a Linear issue or Slack message
- Set up a cron automation for recurring repository tasks
- Connect the GitHub bot for auto-review and @mention handling in PRs
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 13 stars today. The usual pace is 5 per day, so that's 2.9× as much.
- Over the last two days the pace is 18× that of the previous week and a half.
- The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #4, +122 stars.
- About 14 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 3,013
- Stars in a day
- 13
- Forks
- 435
- Issues and pull requests
- 1,882
- Watchers
- 13
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Created
- January 25, 2026
- Last push
- September 13, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
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- September 13, 2026GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #4, +122 stars
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